Animation

Discover the predecessors to modern animation, the history behind Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie, and twenty years of silent animated films in Volume I of Giannalberto Bendazzi’s exhaustive Animation: A World History. Encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this book acc..

Details the steps required to build simulations and interactions, utilize virtual cameras, virtual actors, and real-time physics including gravity, collision and topography. This work helps to create interactive, 3D sets - virtual buildings, terrains, as well as other virtual prototypes for games an..

Helps you to develop characters inspired by humans, birds, fish, snakes and four legged animals; integrate core animation techniques with your software of choice featuring step-by-step tutorials, highlighting 3ds Max, Maya and Blender workflows; and, more...

Shows you how to pose your character, create emotion through facial expressions, and stage your character to create drama. This book includes assignments that allow you to join in and bring your drawing to the next level with concrete techniques, as well as more theoretical analysis...

Collision Detection in Interactive 3D Environments..

Comics have proven an invaluable method for creators to expand their story world and provide audiences with gateways into the story. In this title, the author teaches you how to integrate comic storytelling into your own transmedia work by exploring their past, present, and future...

If Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry’s infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward adolescence. While a well-funded marketing machine can conceal structural flaws, uneven performances and super..

Bridges the gap between the technique of drawing characters and the theory of good character design by using case studies, examples of professional art, and literary and pop culture references to teach you how to develop a character. This book features Character Model Sheets that guide you through t..

Offers a practical introduction to creating and editing high quality video on the desktop. Using examples from a variety of video applications, this book demonstrates a variety of techniques through a series of workshops, including producing short films, multimedia and internet presentations, animat..

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Filled with beautiful, full-color artwork, this title breaks down the animated effect process from beginning to end-including booming explosions, gusting winds, magical incantations, and raging fires. It also breaks down the process of effects 'clean-up,' as well as timing and frame rates...

Helps to add seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery to your Flash applications. This book builds upon your understanding of basic ActionScript (AS) syntax with the foundational skills that you need to use XML in Flash applications and AS2 or AS3 to migrate your existing applications...