Have you ever wondered what your LEGO creations would look like on the big screen? The LEGO Animation Book will show you how to bring your models to life with stop-motion animation—no experience required! Follow step-by-step instructions to make your first animation, and then explore the entire filmmaking process, from storyboards to post-production.Along the way, you’ll learn how to:–Create special effects like explosions and flying minifigures–Convey action...

"The Death of David Pickett" by G.A. Matiasz is an action-packed speculative cyberpunk mystery set in the San Francisco of 2023. Part-time archivist and full-time scenester Jesse Steinfeld pays little attention to the ever-widening gap between the gated rich and homeless poor in his city. But Jesse is intrigued by the enigmatic death of charismatic local activist David Pickett and obsessively investigates Pickett's suspicious demise as urban tensions mount. Incidents of high tech surveilla...

Hast du dich jemals gefragt, wie deine LEGO-Kreationen im Kino aussehen würden? Mit diesem Buch hauchst du deinen LEGO-Modellen mit der Stop-Motion-Technik Leben ein - ganz ohne Vorkenntnisse! Folge den Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen, um deine erste Animation und deinen ersten Brickfilm zu gestalten. Erfahre alles über den Ablauf des Filmemachens, vom Storyboard bis zur Nachproduktion. Werde Brickfilm-Regisseur: - Erzeuge Spezialeffekte wie Explosionen oder fliegende Minifiguren - Verleih...

In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. In The War, no one knew i...

“The Death of David Pickett” by G.A. Matiasz is an action-packed speculative cyberpunk mystery set in the San Francisco of 2023. Part-time archivist and full-time scenester Jesse Steinfeld pays little attention to the ever-widening gap between the gated rich and homeless poor in his city. But Jesse is intrigued by the enigmatic death of charismatic local activist David Pickett and obsessively investigates Pickett’s suspicious demise as urban tensions mount. Incidents of high tech surveilla...

In the vastness of the cosmos, where countless stars and planets drift unnoticed, one Traveler stirs from eons of indifference. He is no adventurer, no scientist, merely a curious being compelled by an inexplicable urge to investigate a faint signal from a distant, unremarkable star—our Sun.In his sixth book, acclaimed author David Pickett utilizes the same wisdom and experiences evident in his 16 cutting-edge US patents to create this penetrating exploration of curiosity, AI, and ...

What would 1808 President Thomas Jefferson do (really do) if he were here now, was up to date on current events; and was then revealed to the public.Jefferson's Encore is true physics, science plausible and not just fiction.Folding space with NASA's Alcubierre drive, the Portal slips into 1804 in an attempt to make scholarly observation of the Lewis and Clark Discovery Expedition and they get more than they bargained for. Their crossing of the 1804 virgin West is tumultuous...

"…am I committing suicide or being reborn?" Charlie Robertson makes a bold decision in a one in a million survival chance to change global history that results in a fight to free North Korea and remove its nuclear threat while fleeing from high level and international threats to him and his family. Try to keep up with Charlie and his 'Uncle' Ike - President Dwight Eisenhower - as they plunge into unimaginable futures…Acclaimed author David Pickett reaches into the unknown, stretchi...

The American Civil War was a crucible of conflicting ideals, fierce combat, and defining moments that continue to shape the nation's identity. Yet behind every battle map and famous general's portrait stood countless ordinary men, called from their farms, workshops, and city streets to don uniforms. Meanwhile, the testimonies of commanding officers shed strategic insight on the human cost of this monumental conflict. Their experiences, from the harsh realities of frontline warfare to momen...

Take an insider's seat and witness THE REAL TEXAS at the ending of the cowboy era; cars, phones and electricity are new; in real life there are no dime-novel heroes; the enemy comes raiding, the reluctant Marshal; what did he really do? Is this real-life scoundrel, my Grandfather Ross, really the hero of the old west? Were such men behind the curtain of the unexplainable rise of the old West to modern Texas in a decade? And what did one woman do that unknowingly changes history? Based on a...

What happens when you bring one of history's greatest minds into the future—and he refuses to leave it behind?In Franklin's Encore: Young Ben Franklin Untold Stories, best-selling author David R. Pickett delivers a mind-bending, time-warping, history-telling tale that tells the true untold adventures of a young Benjamin Franklin.It starts with Carl Raines and his accidental breakthrough: a real Alcubierre Drive capable of folding space—not just into the future, but anywhere...

From bestselling author Rex Pickett comes Sideways New Zealand, the next delightfully dark and funny novel in the Sideways series.Miles Raymond thought things were going relatively well.Miles, the now iconic alter ego of author Rex Pickett—who was first introduced in the critically acclaimed book Sideways and its award-winning movie adaptation—resurfaces on the South Island of New Zealand. All he has in life is a half hectare of Pinot Noir...