Digital Animation

A retelling of Disney Moana featuring beautiful development art from the original Walt Disney Animation Studios artists. Since its release in 2016,...

Want to know what it’s like to write for a theme park attraction? Or an interactive toy? Or a virtual reality game? Wait – those tell stories? And ...

Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have become a new genre of "play culture," integrating communication and entertainment in a playful, computer-media...

Our modern world is dominated by giant media companies, and increasingly they don’t so much sell story, characters or gameplay as they do their set...

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games. The book gives readers the fundamentals of the craft and t...

This is a beginner’s guide to learning and implementing the essential aspects of modeling organic objects and using an organic workflow to model an...

This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents’ understanding of childre...

Photon mapping, an extension of ray tracing, makes it possible to efficiently simulate global illumination in complex scenes. Photon mapping can si...

Direct3D 11 offers such a wealth of capabilities that users can sometimes get lost in the details of specific APIs and their implementation. While ...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes and – most importantly – the new media m...

Want to know what it’s like to write for a theme park attraction? Or an interactive toy? Or a virtual reality game? Wait – those tell stories? And ...

Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have become a new genre of "play culture," integrating communication and entertainment in a playful, computer-media...

Want to work in community management in the games industry? Then this is the book for you. Filled with practical advice and real-world examples, th...

As animation software becomes more advanced and graphics become more refined, the opportunity to create informative detail becomes more achievable ...

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspec...

OpenGL ES is the standard graphics API used for mobile and embedded systems. Despite its widespread use, there is a lack of material that addresses...

Multiplayer Gaming and Engine Coding for the Torque Game Engine shows game programmers how to get the most out of the Torque Game Engine (TGE), whi...

With the advent of advanced hand-held technology and the widespread nature of the Internet, the world of animated filmmaking is more exciting and a...

While formal training and communication are a foundational approach to developing employees in the workplace, alternate reality games (ARGs) provid...

One of the most stylistically original and provocative writers in animation returns with this informal sequel to his previous books on indie animat...