Video & Animation

This book explores how the digital face has become a vital medium of expression, emotion, and identity in contemporary visual culture. It charts the evolution of facial animation from traditional rigging and motion capture to new frontiers of real-time...

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The Animator’s Blueprint: The Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Moho walks you step by step through how to design, rig, and animate using Moho’s professional tools and workflows. You’ll gain real confidence as you master Moho’s core tools to create your own...

Boost your social media reach by leveraging DaVinci Resolve 20 to create impressive micro-content with guidance from a Blackmagic Design Certified Training Partner Key Features Enrich your content with creative editing, graphics compositions, color...

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A Gamer’s Introduction to Programming with MonoGame: Welcome Brave Adventurer! is a great way to combine your current love of both video games and coding into a brand‑new love of writing your own games. In this book, you’ll learn the essential...

Sound is just as crucial an aspect to your animation as your visuals. Whether you're looking to create a score, ambient noise, dialog, or a complete soundtrack, you'll need sound for your piece. This nuts-and-bolts guide to sound design for animation...

Single frame filmmaking has been around as long as film itself. It is the ancestor to modern day special effects and animation. Despite its age-old practice, single frame film making and stop-motion animation continues to influence media and culture with...

This book provides a comprehensive account of Austrian animation history, as well as an analysis of the current state of the industry in competition with American and cheaper international products in the face of dwindling budgets.The book outlines the...

What's changed most in your lifetime? The switch from land lines to cell phones? From snail mail to email? How about the transition from Bugs Bunny to Buzz Lightyear? Those Bugs and Daffy cartoons you loved as a kid look nothing like the PIXAR classics...

Allegorithmic: The Company That Brought Substance to the World of 3D explores the journey of Allegorithmic, the software company behind Substance, a suite of tools that revolutionized texturing in computer graphics. This engaging narrative by Sebastien...

Since his debut in the 1980s, Lewis Klahr has built a mesmerizing and influential body of work, establishing himself as one of the foremost collage animators-or, as he prefers, a "re-animator." His films explore themes of identity (Altair), childhood...

This book examines animated propaganda produced in mainland China from the 1940s to the 1970s. The analyses of four puppet films demonstrate how animation and Maoist doctrine became tightly but dynamically entangled.The book firstly contextualizes the...

Death-the very word is resonant with emotion, imagery, and meaning. It is the ultimate life-event that all living things will eventually experience; as such, it comes as no surprise that death is often a popular theme of literature, art, games, cinema,...

By finding and building around a strong core mechanism, we can access new levels of elegance and discover fresh new ideas in our game designs.Clockwork Game Design is a functional and directly applicable theory for game design, particularly focusing on...

By finding and building around a strong core mechanism, we can access new levels of elegance and discover fresh new ideas in our game designs.Clockwork Game Design is a functional and directly applicable theory for game design, particularly focusing on...

For those who want to explore, imagine, and truly "Think different," welcome to a journey of creation through the Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro for Creators: A Beginner's Guide to Building Immersive Experiences introduces the Apple Vision Pro...

This book is your perfect hands‑on guide to start animating quickly. Using approachable, real‑world exercises, you’ll master the fundamentals of this animation software by following full‑color screenshots step by step. Each chapter opens with a quick...