Animation

When digital art software was in its infancy, most digital art, especially vector art, was textureless. This title teaches you how to create your own textures. It also teaches how to create shaders (the visual effects - reflections, refractions, opacity - that make textures come to life) and materia..

Designed for self-paced learning or instructor-led classroom training, this manual teaches you the fundamentals of using 3ds Max 8. It is organized into sections dedicated to animation, modelling, materials, lighting and rendering; and each section covers basic theory, and also includes exercises fo..

Helps you write your own MAXScript functions and utilities to create custom tools and UI elements, and automate repetitive tasks. This book features techniques including the creation of objects, arrays, collections, control structures, parametric objects, and the construction of UI elements. It offe..

A guide to Action Analysis that demonstrates key animation skills with illustrations, photographs and live action footage filmed with high speed cameras. Suitable for students, amateurs and professionals, it helps them to apply the practices of action analysis to any animation process...

With the development and accessibility of animation tools and techniques, filmmakers blur the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and animation. This title presents animation techniques as they apply to the documentary genre with a behind-the-scenes look at award-winning animated documentaries..

Deals with the process of digital animation, from conceptions to creation and through the many stages of the production pipeline to distribution. This book provides you fundamentals, key classical techniques, and professional advice that can strengthen your work and well-roundedness as an animator...

This text follows the animation production by concentrating on the documentation necessary to accurately and professionally organize each step of the process. Readers are presented with a step-by-step guide to organizing the process by following professional standards in creating needed and useful d..

Take part in the turmoil of the 1950s through 90s as American animation began to lose its momentum and the advent of television created a global interest in the art form. Volume II of Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History delves into the decades following the Golden Age, an uncertain ti..

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..

Catch up to speed on the state of animation from 1991 to present with Volume III of Giannalberto Bendazzi’s exhaustive Animation: A World History. Although characterized by such trends as economic globalization, the expansion of television series, emerging markets in countries like China and India, ..

Take part in the turmoil of the 1950s through 90s as American animation began to lose its momentum and the advent of television created a global interest in the art form. Volume II of Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History delves into the decades following the Golden Age, an uncertain ti..

Catch up to speed on the state of animation from 1991 to present with Volume III of Giannalberto Bendazzi’s exhaustive Animation: A World History. Although characterized by such trends as economic globalization, the expansion of television series, emerging markets in countries like China and India, ..