Learn the ins and outs of fantasy football. Outsmart your competitors by learning how to leverage the power of data science to draft and manage a formidable team. As NFL players ready themselves for a fresh shot at Super Bowl glory, another game starts to invade offices and friend groups: fantasy football. Equal parts number crunching and artful trash talking, fantasy football is a game where a player's ability to parse data can make or break their season. In this course, Eddie Davila breaks down how fantasy football works-and how you can leverage the power of data science to assemble and manage a formidable team. Get expert guidance on drafting players, setting your weekly lineup, and making sound coaching decisions throughout the season. Plus, learn what it takes to start your own league. Whether you're a fantasy football veteran eyeing another win-or you've been goaded into joining your very first league-this course can help you start the season with confidence.

Learn data science in a fast-paced, fun, and non-technical way. Explore how the gambling and fantasy sports industries calculate odds and turn a profit. Want to know how casinos calculate odds and turn a profit? Curious how fantasy sports leagues keep track of stats across the season? Get a fast-paced, fun, and non-technical overview of how the gambling and fantasy sports industries structure their offerings. Curt Frye uses data science to examine how casinos make money, design their games, offer comps to customers, and expand their revenue streams through dining, golf, entertainment, and other attractions. He also reviews fantasy sports, comparing low-stakes leagues such as the NCAA tournament bracket to daily competitions where players gamble real money.

Learn how to use CINEMA 4D to sculpt and retopologize a lightweight, hard-surface model for complex scenes and animation. Using CINEMA 4D's sculpting tools, you can create hard surface models without the constraints imposed by traditional polygon and NURBS modeling techniques. Then you can retopologize your sculpt to produce a lighter model more suitable for complex scenes and animation. Your sculpted model becomes, in essence, a frame around which you can build a well-constructed polygon model. In this course, modeling expert Adam Trachtenberg shows viewers how to use the sculpting tools in C4D to create a hard surface model, retopologize the sculpted model, return to sculpting mode to add fine details, and generate texture maps that approximate the illusion of detail-without the weight of polygons. He demonstrates the steps using a fantasy spaceship model, the kind you'd see in professional video games, television, or feature films. Watch and learn how to use these techniques to build your own.

Learn about writing a great script including storytelling, working with screenwriting software, and revising scripts. Discover filmmaking tips for anyone who wants to make a short. Creating a Short Film is a 13-part training series that shows the actual struggles and challenges filmmakers have to overcome to get films made. Author Chad Perkins and his team made a short film, The Assurance, and documented the process: from writing and directing to editing and screening the film. In this installment, Chad covers the basics of writing a great script-turning your ideas into cinematic gold. Learn the fundamentals of storytelling: believable characters that develop over the course of the film, engaging conflict, and strong story structure. Find resources to inspire your next idea and the screenwriting software that will help you format your script. Learn the specifics of writing a fantasy film, and watch as Chad and his team write, polish, and rewrite their script over the course of production-making the hard choices to abandon some great moments to make a better movie. . Make sure to watch the first installment to learn about the background of the project and to get an overview of the role of the producer. Watch the follow-up episodes to learn more about pre-production, directing, working with actors, editing and visual effects, and everything else that goes into filmmaking. This is a one-of-a-kind educational experience you won't find anywhere else.