Animation - Books, CDs and Other Guides on how to Create Great Animated Videos and Films

'An insight into the minds and techniques of the undisputed masters of their art.'
Peter Lord, Aardman Animation Creator and Director

'Secrets of Oscar-winning Animation provides animators with a rare insight into the creative processes and production methodologies of Oscar winning film-makers. By bringing personal accounts of the film-makers and key production collaborators together in one volume, Olivier Cottee provides an invaluable testament to the creative diversity of animation excellence.'
Jeremy Moorshead, Animation Department Chair, Savannah College of Art and Design

'The joy, genius and magic of independent animated filmmaking is still very much alive and well! This book, more than any other, champions a great cause. A fabulous read! Thank you to the author, the Academy and the filmmakers for showing the world what the infinite potential of animation is capable of achieving at its highest level and what great personal sacrifices are required by the filmmaker to make it all happen!'

 

The Cinema 4D 10 Handbook teaches how to harness this power and flexibility through a project-based approach that allows users to create impressive projects as they learn C4D's array of tools and functions. This is a completely updated edition of this popular guide to the ins-and-outs of C4D that provides new C4D users with a complete introduction to the powerful and affordable C4D program, while teaching the fundamental principles of 3D.

The book is best for beginners and explores the most powerful and frequently used aspects of the program and explains how best to use them. Through intensive tutorials, users will learn ideas and techniques not covered in the manuals, and they'll learn about the theory behind why things work the way they do. The book is also for users of earlier versions of C4D who need to get up to speed with the new features.

If you are a professional animator in the entertainment business, you are probably familiar with the Cinema 4D Program. If not, visit the website at www.maxon.net.

The new Cinema 4D 10 Workshop book teaches you how to model, animate and render with a practical command of all the essential functions and tools. It includes detailed tutorials, suitable for novices and experienced users alike, that demonstrate how to navigate the redesigned UI and orient you to the workflow. Next, the author guides you through the creation of a more complex project in which you model, create, apply textures, light, and render a final showcase image of a sports car. Finally, you will model, texture and prepare a comic character for animation using the new powerslider, timeline and the revised MOCCA module.

Force:  Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, 2e by Mike Mattesi.
This outstanding book is key to understanding how to capture forceful poses
with dynamic drawing. It is informative, concise, and packed full of
inspirational illustrations. Mike Mattesi helps novice animators and artists
create appealing dynamic poses in their drawings. These are vital skills for
both traditional and computer animators.

‘Force’ is not just another ‘anatomy for animators’ book - it assumes the
reader has experience of figure drawing and the focus here is to build on
that knowledge and to use straight and curved lines to show the direction of
force in the body. Every point in the text is thoroughly demonstrated with
the help of superb, dynamically drawn examples.

The first edition was self-published with iUniverse in June 2004, despite
poor production values and very minimal marketing it still garnered five
very positive reviews on Amazon.com and had healthy sales. Now it's a
quality Focal Press book it will do even better!
Mike Mattesi is a professional production artist and instructor with clients
including Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Consumer Products,
Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC and Microsoft. He now owns an art resource
and intellectual property company entitled Contagious Concepts. Based in
southern California.

This 922 page book combines the principles and major techniques in computer graphics with state-of-the-art examples that relate to things students and professionals see every day on the Internet and in computer-generated movies. DLC: Computer graphics.

The OpenGL Reference Manual, Second Edition, documents all OpenGL functions, including brand new features recently approved by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) for inclusion in OpenGL, Version 1.1. The ARB is an industry consortium responsible for defining OpenGL, composed of such industry leaders as Digital Equipment Corporation, Evans & Sutherland, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Intergraph, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Silicon Graphics.

Each reference page fully describes: C specifications, relevant parameters, the effects of functions, possible errors generated by functions, associated effects, Reference pages for the OpenGL Utility Library (GLU) and the OpenGL extension to the X Window System (GLX) are included in this manual.