Digital animation

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.

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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.

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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.

The World Politics of Disco Elysium analyzes the distinctive political claims and original arguments on a wide range of international political issues of the highly-acclaimed Marxist video game Disco Elysium (2019), which takes place in a speculative fictional world anchored in a post-Soviet Estonian perspective.

In GPU Pro5: Advanced Rendering Techniques, section editors Wolfgang Engel, Christopher Oat, Carsten Dachsbacher, Michal Valient, Wessam Bahnassi, and Marius Bjorge have once again assembled a high-quality collection of cutting-edge techniques for advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) programming.

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation.

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 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.

An In-Depth, Practical Guide to GPGPU Programming Using Direct3D 11GPGPU Programming for Games and Science demonstrates how to achieve the following requirements to tackle practical problems in computer science and software engineering:RobustnessAccuracySpeedQuality source code that is easily maintained, reusable, and readableThe book primarily add

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.

This book provides a comprehensive account of Austrian animation history, as well as an analysis of the current state of the industry in competition with American and cheaper international products in the face of dwindling budgets.

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.

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

Incorporating both historical techniques and the most recent developments in computer graphics, Shader Writing in Open Shading Language is a treatise on OSL shader writing and shader development that intends to remedy the current lack of material on this important area of technical and artistic expertise.

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Three continues the series with another collection of chapters from 18 of the top game AI professionals and researchers, from around the world.

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

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?

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

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation.

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

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