Digital animation

Learning Java Through Games teaches students how to use the different features of the Java language as well as how to program.

Motion Illustration is a broad introduction to the emerging world of moving illustrations, written specifically for those coming from an illustration background.

Through the analysis of the work of the main Japanese animators starting from the pioneers of 1917, the book will overview the whole history of Japanese animated film, including the latest tendencies and the experimental movies.

This book provides readers with the tools and methods with which to create effective tabletop games.

The success of Angry Birds, Peggle, and Fruit Ninja has proven that fun and immersive game experiences can be created in two dimensions.

This is a comprehensive guidebook for long-term storytelling in mobile games and games-as-a-service (also known as live games).

"e;The King of Independent Animation"e; has returned with this 10th anniversary edition of Make Toons That Sell Without Selling Out.

This book is written by a professional instructor and founder of CartoonSmart.

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Learn to make games that are more fun and engaging!

Game Audio Mixing offers a holistic view of the mixing process for games, from philosophical and psychological considerations to the artistic considerations and technical processes behind acoustic rendering, interactive mixing, mastering, and much more.

This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness.

Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences.

This volume provides a multi-nuanced analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of human existence, encompassing societal, economic, and inter-relational dimensions.

Game Programming for Artists provides a foundation for artists and creatives to jumpstart learning to program their own games.

This volume seeks to develop new narratives on China's alternative policy and challenges policy makers on gender, regional, income and wage inequalities among rural migrant workers in China.

Learn How to Create Immersive Virtual EnvironmentsWritten by an award-winning designer with 20 years of experience designing virtual environments for television and online communities, Virtual World Design explores the intertwining disciplines of 2D graphics, 3D models, lighting, sound, and storytelling.

This book is a way of sharing insights empirically gathered, over decades of interactive media development, by the author and other children's designers.

Learn from the men who changed animation foreverWalt Disney's team of core animators, who he affectionately called his "e;Nine Old Men,"e; were known for creating Disney's most famous works, as well as refining the 12 basic principles of animation.

This hands-on guide takes you through the complete process of Unity iOS game development.

Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences.

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical application using today's cutting-edge technology.

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.

Using Unreal Engine 3, the authors teach aspiring game makers the fundamentals of designing a computer game.

Game AI Pro3: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents state-of-the-art tips, tricks, and techniques drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field.

The essential fundamentals of 3D animation for aspiring 3D artists 3D is everywhere--video games, movie and television special effects, mobile devices, etc.

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.

"e;Create the digital games you love to play.

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Maya(R) in 24 Hours will help you master Autodesk Maya 2014 and use it to create outstanding 3D graphics and animations.

The development of effective and usable software for spatial computing platforms like virtual reality (VR) requires an understanding of how these devices create new possibilities (and new perils) when it comes to interactions between humans and computers.

This entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series takes a look at the shooter genre: one that has grown with the times and whose influence can be felt from indie teams to major studios.

Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video games.

COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF SHADERS, THE PROGRAMMABLE PIPELINE AND WEBGLFrom geometric primitives to animation to 3D modeling to lighting, shading and texturing, Computer Graphics Through OpenGL(R): From Theory to Experiments is a comprehensive introduction to computer graphics which uses an active learning style to teach key concepts.

The book offers information about the iOS platform.

Getting Started in ZBrush is a gentle introduction to ZBrush, today's premier digital sculpting program.

Shadow Algorithms Data Miner provides a high-level understanding of the complete set of shadow concepts and algorithms, addressing their usefulness from a larger graphics system perspective.

This Guide to all things 3D in Adobe Photoshop will have you creating models and scenes in no time!

Punk PlaythingsProvocations for 21st Century Game Makers"e;Punk was an attitude.

AI-Generated Content (AIGC) is a revolutionary engine for digital content generation.

This book covers the computational aspects of geometric modeling and rendering 3D scenes.

Character rigging is the method with which you create a system for animating a character.

This book describes how, in the era of megamedia culture, aggression in communication constitutes a threat to the communication community.

This unique survey of the career of Michael Dudok de Wit discusses all of his works and offers a glimpse into his private life.

"e;Game Feel"e; exposes "e;feel"e; as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet.

Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet anhand einer Motivstudie, der Untersuchung von Wasser in Animationsfilmen, einen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Animationsfilms als eigenständige und zunehmend wichtige Form innerhalb der Filmwissenschaft.

The de facto official source on facial animation now updated!

This book introduces standard and new HTML5 elements and attributes and CSS3 properties commonly used in Web design as well as design guidelines for their effective use.

Award-winning action-adventure designers Christopher Totten and Adrian Sandoval guide you on a quest to create levels for different styles of 2D action-adventure games, from top-down dungeon-crawler adventures to side-scrolling non-linear "e;Metroidvania"e; titles.

This book brings fantasy storytelling to a whole new level by providing an in-depth insight into the tools used for virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 cinema and motion capture in order to repurpose them to create a virtual studio for filmmaking.