Digital animation

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

This is a comprehensive guide to creating and customizing mods for the popular video game Farming Simulator within Blender.

This book provides a starting point for anyone interested in level and game design with zero prior knowledge.

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 presents some of the most interesting iPhone and iPad games, along with stories of the people behind these games.

Founder of BlenderMadeEasy, Stephen Pearson, will take your Blender skills to the next level by helping you create realistic simulations like fire, water, and explosions in this beginner-friendly illustrated guideKey FeaturesGain in-depth knowledge of each physics-based simulation that Blender has to offerConstruct advanced fire, smoke, and liquid animations using Blender's built-in Mantaflow systemCreate nine different realistic animations with step-by-step guides using every simulation in BlenderPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionReady to unleash the power of visual effects?

Make More Immersive and Engaging Magic Systems in GamesGame Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore, encompassing the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in games and human belief.

This is a clear, accessible manual of storytelling techniques and learning activities for spatial computing, augmented reality and mixed reality.

Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, 3D Graphics for Game Programming presents must-know information for success in interactive graphics.

Founder of BlenderMadeEasy, Stephen Pearson, will take your Blender skills to the next level by helping you create realistic simulations like fire, water, and explosions in this beginner-friendly illustrated guideKey FeaturesGain in-depth knowledge of each physics-based simulation that Blender has to offerConstruct advanced fire, smoke, and liquid animations using Blender's built-in Mantaflow systemCreate nine different realistic animations with step-by-step guides using every simulation in BlenderPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionReady to unleash the power of visual effects?

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

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.

Want to work as an audio professional in the video games industry?

Audio Anecdotes is a book about digital sound.

For those who want to explore, imagine, and truly "e;Think different,"e; welcome to a journey of creation through the Apple Vision Pro.

This book provides an industry professional's first-hand perspective on narrative design's practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsibilities, and keys to breaking in and succeeding.

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

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.

Expert Guidance on the Math Needed for 3D Game ProgrammingDeveloped from the authors' popular Game Developers Conference (GDC) tutorial, Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Third Edition illustrates the importance of mathematics in 3D programming.

The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we're using it, and its impact on our health?

This book presents a much-needed framework for the critical examination of miniatures games and their design.

What's changed most in your lifetime?

Virtual environments such as games and animated and "e;real"e; movies require realistic sound effects that can be integrated by computer synthesis.

This comprehensive guide provides educators with everything they need to teach video game design fundamentals.

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

This covers how to use the latest development tools to create your own Virtual World powered by Unreal Engine.

This book covers how to build materials and VFX that bring your projects to life in Unreal Engine.

Build your own video chat application - but that's just the beginning.

This is a clear, accessible manual of storytelling techniques and learning activities for spatial computing, augmented reality and mixed reality.

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

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.

A ground-breaking guide to thinking about how routine activities can be designed and innovated to develop narrative meaning and a sense of purpose.

This book brings together the knowledge and perspectives of numerous past and present games industry leaders and practitioners to form a clear picture of how leadership operates in a game development studio.

At the intersection of humanities and science, this book re-examines noise as a fundamental force in shaping contemporary thought and digital culture.

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

Game communities are inevitable - in fact, they're one of the main features of a game.

This book provides a comprehensive account of Croatian animation history, as well as an analysis of background factors such as political and social circumstances and cultural heritage that influenced the great international success of Croatian animators between the 1960s and 1980s.

The author takes readers on an in-depth walkthrough of the Torque Game Engine---one of the most popular, powerful, and easy to use game engines available today.

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

This book uses examples in OpenGL and OpenGL Shading Language to present the theory and application of shader programming.

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.