Aesthetic 3D Lighting

History, Theory, and Application

by Lee Lanier

<p><em>Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History, Theory, and Application</em> delves into the history, the theory, and the practical and aesthetic application of lighting in the fine arts and 3D animation.</p> <p>In this book, animation industry veteran ...

ISBN: 9781351733649

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$71.95

$64.78

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

<p>One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician, and author who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis ...

ISBN: 9789897782046

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$0.99

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

<p>One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician, and author who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis ...

ISBN: 9789897780769

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$0.99

Animate to Harmony: The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

by Phillips, Adam

<P>Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface ...

ISBN: 9781134510399

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$59.77

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Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle

Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

by Susan J. Napier

<p>This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's <em>Spirited Away</em>. It ...

ISBN: 9781250117724

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$25.19

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Art in Motion, Revised Edition

Animation Aesthetics

by Maureen Furniss

<p>Art in Motion is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning ...

ISBN: 9780861969449

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$43.55

$39.26

Beginner’s Guide To Mental Ray and Autodesk Materials In 3ds Max® 2016

by Raavi O'Connor

<p data-version="1.1"><strong>Why this Book?</strong></p><p>This book is aimed at those digital artists who have just started working on the 3ds Max. In this eBook, I have covered Autodesk and mental ray materials. A better understanding of ...

ISBN: 9781513002521

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$5.14

Birth of an Industry

Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

by Nicholas Sammond

<p>In <em>Birth of an Industry</em>, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation

ISBN: 9780822375784

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$38.82

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Craft Notes for Animators

A Perspective on a 21st Century Career

by Ed Hooks

<p>If Disney’s <em>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</em> 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 ...

ISBN: 9781317521167

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$43.14

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Create Backgrounds, Textures, and Maps in Photoshop: Using Photoshop CC 2014

by Raavi O'Connor

<p data-version="1.1">Welcome to the exciting world of Photoshop CC 2014, the leader in digital imaging excellence. Photoshop is not just about retouching images or manipulating photos; it can be used for creating custom textures. While there ...

ISBN: 9781507095652

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$11.99

Creating Characters with Personality

by Tom Bancroft

<p>From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken. <em>Designing Characters with Personality</em> shows artists how to create a ...

ISBN: 9780399578731

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$28.74

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Escape

by G. Michael Dobbs

<p>It doesn&apos;t seem so odd nowadays that people in their 20s through 60s quote Bugs Bunny or collect animation art or look forward to a new animated DVD chock full of extras. Growing up in the 1950s and &apos;60s, cartoons were definitely ...

ISBN: 9781370347759

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$13.14

Exploring Standard Materials in 3ds Max 2015

by Raavi O'Connor

<p data-version="1.1">This book is aimed at those digital artists who have just started working on the 3ds Max 2015 and 3ds Max Design 2015 applications. In this book, we have covered standard materials as well as other related materials and ...

ISBN: 9781513051017

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$3.87

Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance

by Jacobs, Lea

The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. <I>Film Rhythm after Sound</I> analyzes this evolution via close examination of ...

ISBN: 9780520960015

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$36.90

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Interpreting Anime

by Christopher Bolton

<p><strong>For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches</strong></p> <p>Well-known through hit movies like <em>Spirited Away</em>, <em>Akira</em>, and <em>Ghost in the ...

ISBN: 9781452956848

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$34.57

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Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives

by Yokota, Masao

East Asian critiques and discussion of a powerful Japanese export and popular art form ...

ISBN: 9781617038105

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$72.14

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Lotte Reiniger

Pioneer of Film Animation

by Whitney Grace

For three years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted what is today the oldest surviving animated feature film. Equipped with scissors, cardboard, sheets of lead, glass panes and a camera, animation pioneer Lotte ...

ISBN: 9781476628738

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$28.79

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Music in Disney's Animated Features

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book

by James Bohn

<p>In <em>Music in Disney's Animated Features</em> James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them. In addition he also presents a history of music in Disney animated ...

ISBN: 9781496812155

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$43.48

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Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture

by Herhuth, Eric

In <I>Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination</I><I>,</I> Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and ...

ISBN: 9780520966055

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$39.83

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Ponyville Confidential

The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981–2016

by Sherilyn Connelly

Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro’s <I>My Little Pony</I> franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Critics dismissed the cartoons as toy advertisements, and derided their embrace of femininity. ...

ISBN: 9781476626864

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$14.39

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