Author: Steve Roberts
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: animation, focal, press, effects, cgi, visual, produce, traditional, drawing, techniques, character, stunning
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2004-08-09
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0240516656
ISBN-13: 9780240516653
Based on 10 years of animation teaching experience, this comprehensive guide to key techniques will ensure your skills best fit the computer animation workplace. A complete understanding of the vital animation drawing skills will be achieved by learning the pitfalls in a 2D exercise then applying these skills when using 3D animation packages. Providing a broad coverage this book will be relevant whatever 3D package you use, Softimage XSI, Maya, 3ds max or LightWave. Just knowing and being able to use a specific 3D software package does not make you an animator, but reading this book will! The
Author: Carol Stabile
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: animation, culture, american, television, prime, time
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-04-18
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415283264
ISBN-13: 9780415283267
The contributors explore a series of key issues and questions, including: How do we explain the animation explosion of the 1960s? Why did it take nearly twenty years following the cancellation of The Flintstones for animation to find its feet again as primetime fare? In addressing these questions, as well as many others, essays in the first section examine the relation between earlier, made-for-cinema animated production (such as the Warner Looney Toons shorts) and television-based animation; the role of animation in the economies of broadcast and cable television; and the links between anima
Author: George Avgeraki
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronic
Keywords: animation, max, lightwave, maya, 3ds, professional, bible, creating, digital
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2003-10-02
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0071414940
ISBN-13: 9780071414944
This title deals with: how to choose and use the right software for your animation needs - covers industry leaders Lightwave, Maya, and Flash; how to create and execute intricate storyboards; character rendering; and lighting in 3-D animation.
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: animation, storyboards, layouts, design, art, learn, draw, character
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0823023656
ISBN-13: 9780823023653
These lively pages burst with hands-on instruction for creating clever, colorful character animation. Once again, this best-selling author knows just what readers want, and he provides it with this timely instructional on that hugely popular and magical art form: animation.Everywhere we turn—movies, television, videos, CD-ROM—animated characters capture our imagination. This superb book shows aspiring cartoonists and animators how to learn or adapt skills to the lucrative, ever-growing field of animated art. Inviting, step-by-step demonstrators present animation with the emphasis most help
Authors:Catherine Winder, Zahra Dowlatabadi,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: animation, effects, visual, focal, producing, press
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2001-06-13
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0240804120
ISBN-13: 9780240804125
Drawing heavily from the authors’ twenty years of combined experience, Producing Animation offers a clear overview of this exciting industry and a comprehensive guide to the process of developing a project from conception to final delivery. Written from the perspective of a producer, this book offers the foundation of how a project is created in addition to describing the role of the producer at each phase. Answers are provided to many of the most commonly asked questions about animation ranging from how to enter the business to the average cost and schedule for a prime-time animated s
Author: Steven Subotnick
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: animation, press, visual, effects, focal, creation, home, digital, studio, distribution
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-01-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0240804740
ISBN-13: 9780240804743
So you want to create animation! Where do you start? With an idea. This creative, exercise-packed guide contains examples and idea-generating activities. What tools do you need? Your computer, simple software programs, and your imagination. This book will tell you how to utilize these tools. Must you spend your life savings on your set-up? No. The author’s charts and project timelines will guide you and make the overwhelming simple, and keep your shopping lists manageable. With Animation in the Home Digital Studio, amateurs and animation students alike can learn how to create a variety o
Authors:Carol MacGillivray, Anthony Head,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: animation, focal, press, visual, director, effects, max, interactive, using, 3ds, web, flash
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2004-12-14
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0240519108
ISBN-13: 9780240519104
Make sure you benefit from the explosion of new and exciting applications designed to let you create 3D animation for the web. See how you can use the power of 3ds max, Flash and Director to make your 3D fame or project a reality for the internet as well as learning generic skills allowing you to use many applications.Ideal if you are a web designer with little or no 3D experience and need an overview of how 3D could transform your work and how best to put it online, or if you are a 3D animator wanting to produce work for the web and need a guide to which applications to use.Insteadof being bo
