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: Chris Patmore
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Serie
Keywords: animation, techniques, successful, practice, principles, course, complete
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0764123998
ISBN-13: 9780764123993
Desktop computer artists will find a wealth of information in this heavily illustrated book. It instructs in the principles, practice, and techniques of successful animation. The author covers all forms of animation, starting with the basics of making sketches in flip books, and concluding with the latest developments in computer-generated imagery. He demonstrates with practical examples that utilize key areas of modern animation—cell art, stop-action with clay or plastic models, and 3D computer-generated and web-based animations. This volume’s six chapters cover the following topic
Authors:Catherine Winder, Zahra Dowlatabadi,
Publisher: Focal Pre
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 ser
Author: Steven Subotnick
Publisher: Focal Pre
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
Author: Susannah Shaw
Publisher: Focal Pre
Keywords: animation, focal, press, visual, effects, second, stop, craft, skills, model, motion
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0240520556
ISBN-13: 9780240520551
To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it live, then make it perform.Susannah Shaw provides the first truly practical introduction to the craft skills of model animation. This is a vital book in the development of model animation which, following the success of Aardman’s first full-length film, Chicken Run, is now at the forefront of
Authors:Kit Laybourne, John Canemaker,
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: animation, books, sound, cartoons, flip, animated, book, complete, guide, filmmaking
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0517886022
ISBN-13: 9780517886021
The first edition of The Animation Book, published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion in computer technology has created a corresponding boom in animation. Using desktop hardware and software, animators can easily produce high-quality, high-artistry animation and mix the aesthetics of traditional cel animation with dazzling 3-D effects. Kit Laybourne’s digital revision to The Animation Book brings you to the cutting edge of animation technology. Richly illustrated with frame-grabs, production stills,
