Digital animation

The award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most comprehensive guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available.

Designing Virtual Worlds, authored by a true pioneer, stands as the most comprehensive examination of virtual-world design ever written.

Designing Virtual Worlds, authored by a true pioneer, stands as the most comprehensive examination of virtual-world design ever written.

This book shows how games can play their part in addressing climate change and how we can sustainably make games for sustainability.

This book shows how games can play their part in addressing climate change and how we can sustainably make games for sustainability.

Gamify Your College Classroom is an instructor playbook for nurturing life skills through the incorporation and customization of games and game elements into coursework.

Gamify Your College Classroom is an instructor playbook for nurturing life skills through the incorporation and customization of games and game elements into coursework.

Computing is revolutionizing the creative process, transforming how designers approach ideation, prototyping, fabrication, communication, and representation.

Sound is just as crucial an aspect of your animation as your visuals.

This book aims to provide information and in-routes to one of the most complex forms of video game accessibility.

This book aims to provide information and in-routes to one of the most complex forms of video game accessibility.

This book is a comprehensive guide for artists looking to master character design, no matter their chosen style.

This book is a comprehensive guide for artists looking to master character design, no matter their chosen style.

There have been many books written about how to write for games, but just as important as creating the deliverables is knowing how to do the job itself.

There have been many books written about how to write for games, but just as important as creating the deliverables is knowing how to do the job itself.

This book provides a comprehensive account of Spanish animation history, from its early days through to the arrival of CGI.

This book provides a comprehensive account of Spanish animation history, from its early days through to the arrival of CGI.

Sound is just as crucial an aspect of your animation as your visuals.

Everybody has a story in them.

Everybody has a story in them.

Event-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design.

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games.

This book is a study of the psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of creativity, originality, and inspiration viewed from the lens of a seasoned game developer.

A Gamer's Introduction to Programming with MonoGame: Welcome Brave Adventurer!

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games.

Playtesting Best Practices: Real World and Online covers the complete journey of playtesting - the iterative journey to shape and refine tabletop games from raw ideas to balanced and fun games.

While formal training and communication are a foundational approach to developing employees in the workplace, alternate reality games (ARGs) provide a framework for increased and sustained engagement within business organizations.

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.

The latest edition of this bestselling game development reference offers proven tips and techniques for the real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data that are useful for beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work.

This book explains how to use the symbolic differentiation system D* for applications in computer games and engineering simulation.

This book focuses on advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time with any shader language available.

Ever since Lorensen and Cline published their paper on the Marching Cubes algorithm, isosurfaces have been a standard technique for the visualization of 3D volumetric data.

Based on course notes of SIGGRAPH course teaching techniques for real-time rendering of volumetric data and effects; covers both applications in scientific visualization and real-time rendering.

This undergraduate-level computer graphics text provides the reader with conceptual and practical insights into how to approach building a majority of the interactive graphics applications they encounter daily.

Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues.

As animation software becomes more advanced and graphics become more refined, the opportunity to create informative detail becomes more achievable in your characters.

Written for game programmers and developers, this book covers GPU techniques and supporting applications that are commonly used in games and similar real-time 3D applications.

Implementing physical simulations for real-time games is a complex task that requires a solid understanding of a wide range of concepts from the fields of mathematics, physics, and software engineering.

This collection of articles provides practical and relevant tools, tips, and techniques for those working in the digital audio field.

Physics is really important to game programmers who need to know how to add physical realism to their games.

This book addresses the new interaction modalities that are becoming possible with new devices by looking at user interfaces from an input perspective.

A novel approach for the classroom or self-study, Learn to Code with Games makes coding accessible to a broad audience.

Want to work in UI/UX in the video games industry?

This book charts the history of more than 20 years of animation festivals.

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.

GPU Pro3, the third volume in the GPU Pro book series, offers practical tips and techniques for creating real-time graphics that are useful to beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.