Digital Animation

Learning C# Programming with Unity 3D, Second Edition is for the novice game programmer without any prior programming experience. Readers will lear...

Learning C# Programming with Unity 3D, Second Edition is for the novice game programmer without any prior programming experience. Readers will lear...

Death—the very word is resonant with emotion, imagery, and meaning. It is the ultimate life-event that all living things will eventually experience...

Get ahead of the game with Unity 4. The Unity engine is the tool of choice for many indie and AAA game developers. Unity 4 Fundamentals gives reade...

This book presents 71 practical game design tools that readers can use to solve real-world game design problems. Written to be a "toolbox" for game...

This book is a fast-paced look at the next two decades of the games industry with a focus on game design, the evolution of gaming markets around th...

This book is an introduction to development with HTML5 game engines, an in-depth look at some popular engines, downloadable example projects for ea...

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry – under...

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad...

This book offers a perspective into a phenomenon becoming more and more common: AAA developers ‘going indie’. Written through the personal story of...

3D Animation for the Raw Beginner Using Autodesk Maya is a hands-on academic textbook as well as a do-it-yourself training manual for the individua...

Culture Specific Items in Chinese to English Video Game Translation aims to investigate the Chinese to English translation of culture specific item...

In a follow-up book, which re-iterates the principles of “Digital Creature Rigging: The Art & Science of CG Creature Setup in 3ds Max”, and enh...

Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students provides a research-informed, systematic approach for using cooperative multiplayer video ...

Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students provides a research-informed, systematic approach for using cooperative multiplayer video ...

John Funge introduces a new approach to creating autonomous characters. Cognitive modeling provides computer-animated characters with logic, reason...

Stop motion animation is a challenging and time-consuming skill that requires patience, adaptability, and a close eye to detail. Stop Motion: Craft...

This book takes a real-world, in-depth journey through the game-design process, from the initial blue sky sessions to pitching for a green light. T...

Would you rather take months to learn every tool, every feature, and every concept in Adobe Animate or start right now making your own creations wi...

If you want to be successful in any area of game development—game design, programming, graphics, sound, or publishing—you should know how standouts...

Talented animation artists often neglect successful storytelling in favor of strong visuals, but now you can have both with this complete guide to ...

Professor Craig Caldwell’s Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story. It lays out the fundamental elements...

Talented animation artists often neglect successful storytelling in favor of strong visuals, but now you can have both with this complete guide to ...

Despite the proliferation of video games in the twenty-first century, the theory of game design is largely underdeveloped, leaving designers on the...

This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and...

Good or bad level design can make or break any game, so it is surprising how little reference material exists for level designers. Beginning level ...

Get an inside look at the creation of production-ready creature rigs for film, TV and video games. Garner strategies and techniques for creating c...

Graphics, 3D modeling, and animation are the cornerstones of not only the video game industry, but also the motion picture industry, digital lighti...

Bridging art and innovation, this book invites readers into the processes of artists, curators, cultural producers and historians who are working w...

Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time, including Super Mario Bros., Grand Theft Auto III, Doom, The Sims and many more...

Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning provides learning designers with insight into how the different elements that comprise game aesthetic...

Designing Gamified Systems is a fundamental guide for building essential skills in game and interaction design to revitalize and reimagine real wor...

In the competitive world of video game writing and narrative design, developers are losing permanent positions while freelancing careers are on the...

Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning provides learning designers with insight into how the different elements that comprise game aesthetic...