Digital animation

The 2022 release of Adobe Animate provides significant new controls for animation with puppet warping and improvements to layer parenting, and enhancements to paint brush preferences and symbol options.

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.

This book teaches beginners and aspiring game developers how to develop 2D games with Unity.

The Animator's Sketchbook will teach students of animation how to improve their work through observation and drawing.

This handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world adapted their routine media pedagogies to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which often led to significant social, economic, and cultural hardships.

A guide to the essential tools and techniques of statistical signal processing, along with applications.

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

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again.

Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning provides learning designers with insight into how the different elements that comprise game aesthetics can inform the design of game-based learning.

Photoshop is the cornerstone of the graphics industry and understanding its 3D capabilities is becoming a requirement for graphic designers, photographers, and creatives alike.

Want to become a writer in the games industry?

Steve Rabin's Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Movement and Pathfinding gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology covering movement and pathfinding in game AI.

After 30 years, discover the inspirations behind Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and its legacy as a certified pop-culture experience.

Metagames: Games about Games scrutinizes how various meta devices, such as breaking the fourth wall and unreliable narrator, change and adapt when translated into the uniquely interactive medium of digital games.

The classic work on animation principles, now fully updated for the digital age.

OpenGL(R) Shading Language, Third Edition, extensively updated for OpenGL 3.

This collection offers an expansive, multiplatform exploration of the rapidly-expanding area of motion design and motion graphics, taking into account both theoretical questions and creative professional practice.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

The Digital Renaissance teaches you how to translate the methods and skills found in traditional art to the digital medium.

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.

Board games are increasingly recognized as an artform of their own, but their design and aesthetics are just as important as their gameplay mechanics.

Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders Bill Kroyer and Tom Sito take us through insightful face-to-face interviews, revealing, in these two volumes, the journeys of 23 world-class directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal views on the process of making feature animated films.

Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value.

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.

Focal Press' Pocket Lawyer series serves as a legal toolkit for independent producers and artists in the creative industries.

There is a lot one could say about animation in Europe, but above all, there is no consistent European animation.

Videogame development is usually seen as a male dominated field; even playing videogames is often wrongly viewed as a pastime for men only.

Theme is often described as the "e;why"e; of a game.

Physics forms the basis for many of the motions and behaviors seen in both the real world and in the virtual worlds of animated films, visual effects, and computer games.

Learning Flash CS4 Professional offers beginners and intermediate Flash developers a unique introduction to the latest version of Adobe's powerful multimedia application.

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

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects, architectural and product visualization, and games.

The Video Games Textbook takes the history of video games to the next level.

Produce mind-blowing visual effects with Autodesk Maya.

The indie game developer's complete guide to running a studio.

Expand your imagination by letting go of the limitations of traditional animation mediums, software packages, or workflows and integrating 2D and 3D assets.

This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Unity, Substance Painter, and Maya.

This book studies R.

Do you have creative ideas that you wish you could transform into code?

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

A Designer's Guide to Creating Realistic 3D Experiences For Extended Reality Designing Immersive 3D Experiences helps visual designers move into the fast-growing fields of 3D and extended reality (XR) design.

This book brings the insights of game professionals, DCC creators, hardware vendors, and current researchers together into a collection that focuses on the most underrepresented and critical part of game production: tools development.

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

Making a successful video game is hard.

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

This book explores the visualization of three-dimensional non-Euclidean spaces using raytracing techniques in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

Want to work in community management in the games industry?

Corona SDK is one of the most powerful tools used to create games and apps for mobile devices.

AI is an integral part of every video game.