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ucreate – Games & Artimation
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Write Your Way Into Animation and Games $26.63 Write Your Way Into Animation and Games |
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Animation $31.08 Animation: Master is an affordable, powerful 3D program easy enough to be used by students, new 3D artists, and hobbyists, yet powerful enough for professional animators. Learning how to use A: M is made easier with the completely updated Animation: Master: A Complete Guide. This is the only book dedicated to A: M and it is the best resource for all levels of users. For those new to 3D graphics or A: M, you?ll learn the skills and fundamentals of 3D and discover how to master this incredibly powerful, low-c program. If you?re an experienced user, you?ll find insightful tips and explore the newest features. Using the wide variety of hands-on tutorials throughout the book, you?ll put 3D concepts into action while learning the ins-and-outs of A; M. Beginning with a review of the interface, you?ll progress through modeling basics, character modeling and rigging, to expressions, animation, lighting, and surfacing. From there you?ll move into the more advanced topics of special effects, including hair, cloth, and flocks, and finish up with rendering and compositing. So whether you?re a new user or an experienced power user, this is the one resource you?ll need to go beyond the basics with Animation: Master! |
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Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games $21.74 Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games explains the practical aspects of creating scripts for animation, comics, graphic novels, and computer games. It details how you can create scripts that are in the right industry format, and follow the expected rules for you to put your best foot forward to help you break-in to the trade. This book explains approaches to writing for exterior storytelling (animation, games); interior/exterior storytelling (comics and graphic novels), as well as considerations for non-linear computer games in the shortest, pithiest, and most economical way. The author offers insider’s advice on how you can present work as professional, how to meet deadlines, how visual writing differs from prose, and the art of collaboration. * Career rules of-the-road for comics, computer games, and animation…from an insider’s perspective* Written for beginners and professionals alike* Written by a distinguished author, who credits include X-Men Evolution, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lord of the Rings, and more! |
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Basics Animation: Drawing for Animation $18.63 Computers have made it easier and faster to create animation than ever before. But speed isn”t everything. The thought, the creativity, and the characters are what make great animation. Basics Animation: Drawing for Animation examines the pre-production work behind memorable animated film. Drawing, narrative, and adaptation are fully explored in this book, through contributions from industry innovators in movies, video games, and television. |
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Digital Animation $19.86 Digital technology has made animation simpler, faster, and easier than ever before. New tools have broadened the palette available to both beginners and experienced animators. Basics Animation: Digital Animation looks at the history of the medium, charting its progress by looking at specific examples that document the growth and development of the form over the past fifty years. With contributions from pioneers of the medium as well as today’’s leading animators in movies, games, and television, Digital Animation is an animated look at animation yesterday and today. * Explores key principles and processes of animation * Readable and informative * Interviews and art from artists, animators, filmmakers, and more from around the world |
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Animation in Process $27.11 From Hollywood blockbuster to striving independent filmmaker, from mobile phone games to characters advertising products on television, from pseudo live action through to virtual environments, animation is able to transcend boundaries to new audiences. This book shows how artists, designers, filmmakers, programmers, directors, writers, and producers have seized the chance to entertain using a versatile and compelling medium. Animation in Process is not only a creative showcase exposing the best talent in the field today, but an in-depth exploration of working methods and processes behind the highly polished features they create, with previously unseen material such as sketches, working drawings, storyboards, and other work-in-progress that documents the animators” craft. |
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Flash 3D: Animation, Interactivity, and Games $30.47 The Flash player is the world’s most-used software platform and 3D space is the latest direction in publishing rich media Flash content. It enables Flash designers and developers to enhance content delivery and interactivity of Web sites, games, and interactive learning systems. This book explores the third dimension with real-world examples, practical tutorials and templates for implementation. Includes a CD-ROM with tutorial exercises. |
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Animation Unlimited $27.11 Featuring 50 seminal short films by key animators from around the world, this book discusses the work of early pioneers such as Oskar Fischinger and Jan Svankmajer as well as contemporary animators such as Larry Cuba, Tim Hope and Run Wrake. All of the films included are independently produced personal work. Most of the featured directors make a living in commercial animation but, freed from the constraints of a client brief, they use their short films to experiment with new ideas and techniques, many of which subsequently find their way into commercial applications. Labors of love, these films can take years to complete – each second of the film may consist of up to 25 frames of animation. Grouped according to four main themes, all forms of animation are covered, including 2D, 3D, Claymation, stop frame and web/Flash animation. Each project is accompanied by a 500-word review including comments from the director. Details of software and method along with the internet address of the production company are given in the technical credits. |
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Character Animation With Direct3D $24.88 Character Animation with Direct3D 10 is the first complete reference for using Direct3D 10 for character animation, particuarly in games and animated films. Direct3D 10 is a dramatically changed release from previous versions and it offers incredible new power and functionality. The book teaches graphics and game programmers the essentials of Direct3D and DirectX 10 with a focus on the three major components of character animation: skeletal animation, ragdoll physics, and facial animation. It also provides coverage of other key animation subjects including lip-syncing, making eyes focus on a specific point, the how to create character animation, skeletal animation, lip synching, skinned animation, facial animation, basic physics, phonemes & visemes, animation channels, and more. |
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A Guide to Computer Animation: For TV, Games, Multimedia and the Web $57.67 Clear overall coverage of the principles and techniques of digital animation with step-by-step illustrations– Get the best from your software and hardware — understand the constraints and demands when creating for different media– Expert advice and huge range of resources to help you make the most of animation opportunitiesWhether you want to move into creating moving digital imagery for TV, video, or new media, this guide will help you understand the production processes as well as the constraints of each and how they fit together.The book contains animation case studies from top animators at two of the world’s leading studios, plus a chapter for 3D beginners where the creation of a 3D room and its contents are illustrated step-by-step. The website allows you can see the final moving images of the completed animations in addition to further 3D tutorials. |
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Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation $24.34 Covering every aspect of Flash animation, this edition is a fast-paced yet thorough review of the Flash animation process. Written by the Emmy Award]-winning team at ANIMAX, this book not only reveals the step-by-step process followed by one of todays leading Flash animation studios, it gives valuable tips and tricks to take Flash animation to the next level. |
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Acting In Animation $16.14 This revised edition offers the theories and practices Hooks has developed in his workshops, with expanded coverage of acting in video games, story structure, and the work on emotion in the human face being done by Paul Ekman. |
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Physics-Based Animation $43.52 Computer Graphics is booming today, driven by the movie, game, and simulation industry, and the constant increase in computer power. To achieve the quality expected by audiences of games and movies, programmers need to understand and implement physics-based animation methods. Physics-Based Animation is written to teach essential principles and provide practical methods for transforming theoretical techniques into practical skills. It thoroughly details all three of the key subjects: physics, mathematics, and animation. The book gives students and professionals a solid foundation for understanding how the mathematical models are derived from physical and mathematical principles, and how the mathematical models are solved in an efficient, robust, and stable manner on a computer. It is ideal for students of animation, researchers in the field, and professionals working in games and movie industries. |
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Flash Animation for Teens $21.77 Welcome to your no-experience-required, introductory guide to creating animations with Macromedia Flash! Flash Animation for Teens will help you develop the fundamental Flash skills that you need to confidently create your own animations. Covering the basics of Flash animation, this book uses Flash 8 to teach you the techniques you need to create a variety of animation styles, including games, web sites, stand-alone applications, and cartoons. Ideal for readers with little to no Flash experience, this project-based guide will help you conquer the basics and begin creating your own animations. |
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The Animation Producer’s Handbook $157.5 Animation is one of the fastest-growing fields in film and television, and it is also integral to video games and web development. Once an esoteric and hard-won skill, technology has advanced to the point that simple animated projects can now be produced on a home PC. Its many enthusiasts have fuelled a range of new courses in universities, and in public and private colleges. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field, the authors offer a systematic overview of the role of the animation producer and the production process. They explain how to develop a concept, pitch it to obtain funding, and find a market. They offer detailed advice on recruiting a team, managing different stages of production (including overseas suppliers), quality control, budgeting and scheduling. They also outline the key aspects of 2D and 3D production.From project development, seeking investment to pre- and post-production, for film, television, and the web, The Animation Producer’s Handbook is the ‘one-stop shop’ for budding animators everywhere. |
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Game Character Animation All in One $30.42 Within the world of video games, characters become almost living entities. Through the use of logic and artificial intelligence, the video-game character is able to act and react to each situation. As the designer, you hold the character’s creative expression in your control. Game Character Animation All in One is a comprehensive guide to the techniques of developing and animating amazing characters for your games. It covers not only introductory-level character-design techniques, but also advanced character-creation and animation topics. With an 8-page color insert showcasing game-character design, this book is a detailed guide to creating exciting, believable, engaging characters for your games. |
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Complete Animation Course: The Principles, Practice, and Techniques of Successful Animation $15.99 The book’s concluding sections discuss modern hardware and software, with emphasis on affordable beginners’ equipment. Also provided is an overview of the animation industry and its applications to movies, TV, and computer games. More than 250 instructive illustrations enhance this fascinating how-to volume. |
