Digital animation

Making a game can be an intensive process, and if not planned accurately can easily run over budget.

Knowing the industry-standard animation and interactivity tool Adobe Animate CC can help you get a foothold in the exciting web design and mobile app-development world.

This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga/animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context.

This book takes you through all the basic steps of character design for games and animation, from brainstorming and references to the development phase and final render.

Description:Many new games are from first-time designers or are self-published, so there is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design.

This volume addresses contemporary debates and trends regarding the production and distribution, content, and audience engagement with the television streaming industry.

Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math.

Games have long played a central role in society - actually a central role in the animal kingdom.

Written as the successor to Virtual World Design: Creating Immersive Virtual Environments, this book carries the ideas brought forward in its predecessor to new levels of virtual world design exploration and experimentation.

Master the Newest Blender Techniques for Creating Amazing 3D Characters: From Design and Modeling to Video Compositing Now fully updated for Blender 2.

Leading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects.

Indie developers and other people who work on games for a living face all kinds of interesting income tax and small business formation issues that more traditional businesses simply don't: not being geographically bound, relying on alternative funding, long periods of time with no income, and having multiple options for tax treatment of game development costs.

Based on the PocketGamer MasterClass Building a Pitch: From Concept to Document (2021), a decade's worth of industry experience and numerous industry-level pitches for a variety of organisations, including Mediatonic, Epic Games and GDC, this book will equip you with methodologies, best practices and insights around video game pitch design.

Lighting for Animation is designed with one goal in mind - to make you a better artist.

Successful games merge art and technology in truly unique ways.

John Johnston's background combines expertise in modern literature, poststructuralist philosophy, and high technology's production.

This book offers a clearly written and engaging introduction to the basics of interactive digital media.

A practical introduction, the second edition of Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics shows you how to animate fully three-dimensional incompressible flow.

As a textbook for learning the fundamentals of modeling, rigging and animating 3D-modeled characters for use in video games, this step-by-step lesson book builds on the reader's modeling skills acquired from reading Volume I.

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

This student-friendly book provides an accessible overview of the primary debates about the effects of video games.

Dave Eberly's 3D Game Engine Design was the first professional guide to the essential concepts and algorithms of real-time 3D engines and quickly became a classic of game development.

Use Blender to edit and produce video for YouTube or any other social media platformsKey FeaturesUse the Blender Video editing toolkit and UIMake 3D info-graphics and interactive video with the latest Blender toolkitPrepare a video production with live markings for trackingBook DescriptionOne of the critical components of any workflow related to video production is a reliable tool to create and edit media such as video and audio.

People have played games forever, but it's only in the past few decades that people really started thinking about what games are, how they work, and how to make them better.

Turn your love of video games into a new love of programming by learning the ins and outs of writing code while also learning how to keep track of high scores, what video game heroes and loot boxes are made of, how the dreaded RNG (random number generation) works, and much, much more.

Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L.

"e;As esports has grown, the need for professional legal representation has grown with it.

This book will introduce you to the controls and steer you towards understanding what Blender can do.

How can video games be fun and immerse players in fantastic worlds where anything seems possible?

This is an introductory textbook focusing on games (specifically interaction and graphics) as a pathway into programming.

This book unveils the secrets of extraordinarily successful games and hands you a smarter way to create exceptional engagement and convert it into revenue.

The iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR arent just faster and more powerful than evertheyre also better at all of the things you use an iPhone for.

All professional animators know a handful of secrets that give them an edge in a production environment.

This edition covers iMovie 10.

This book is among the first books to provide an in-depth look at how to implement Python with Maya,.

This book serves as an introduction to the level design process in Unreal Engine 4.

This book presents 71 practical game design tools that readers can use to solve real-world game design problems.

Trying to learn Maya programming from the documentation can be daunting whether or not you are a programmer.

Virtual Reality is not real life.

Written by a pioneer of game development in academia, Introduction to Game Physics with Box2D covers the theory and practice of 2D game physics in a relaxed and entertaining yet instructional style.

Every animated film and video game production spends a large percentage of its resources and time on advancing the quality of the digital characters inhabiting the world being created.

This book will help game designers and those interested in games thoughtfully embed culture into video games and the game design process.

This book, written and edited by members of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Game Writing Special Interest Group, follows the acclaimed Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing to deliver practical advice from seasoned veterans on the special challenges of writing for first-person shooter games (FPS), role-playing games (R

This book provides readers with a solid understanding of game development, design, narrative, charaterization, plot, back story and world creation elements that are crucial for game writers and designers as they create a detailed world setting, adventure, characters, narrative and plot suitable for possible publication.

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

The new realities are here.

If you're just beginning to dive into the world of 3D, this is the book for you.

This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production to the present day.

This unique book examines the career of Michel Ocelot, from his earliest works to his latest research and productions, including an interview regarding his latest film Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse (2022).

This book covers essential tools and techniques for programming the graphics processing unit.