Digital Animation

Collage art and film date back to the early 20th century (the earliest collages have roots in 12th-century Japan). It was rooted in the age of cons...

This book explores China’s digital discourse and how the Internet influences social and ideological changes to the country’s political economy, wit...

Game AI Uncovered: Volume One kicks off a brand-new series of books that focus on the development of artificial intelligence in video games. This v...

Python’s simplicity and versatility make it an ideal language for both beginners and experienced programmers. Its syntax facilitates a smooth learn...

This book provides a series of transdisciplinary tools to help game designers improve their design pipeline and design output. Using approaches fro...

Welcome to the second volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices – the first series of its kind dedicated to the art of game audio ...

Animate the world around you! Follow along with veteran Disney effects artist Mauro Maressa as he teaches you how to create and animate natural phe...

On Animation: The Director's Perspective is a collection of interviews with 23 animated feature-film directors. These extensive interviews were con...

Composition for the 21st ½ century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illu...

Making a successful video game is hard. Even games that are well-received at launch may fail to engage players in the long term due to issues with ...

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 ...

You've got the cheats, tutorials, and how-tos. What else do you need? Go above and beyond those stop-gaps and step-by-steps with Pushing Pixels, th...

Expert Guidance on the Math Needed for 3D Game ProgrammingDeveloped from the authors’ popular Game Developers Conference (GDC) tutorial, Essential ...

Character rigging is the method with which you create a system for animating a character. A rig is represented by two primary mechanics: the skelet...

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

Achieving believable motion in animation requires an understanding of physics that most of us missed out on in art school. Although animators often...

A First Course in Game ProgrammingMost of today’s commercial games are written in C++ and are created using a game engine. Addressing both of these...

This book teaches students and entry-level novices how to create games using the GameMaker engine. Readers will quickly hone their design skills wi...

Digital characters are a driving force in the entertainment industry today. Every animated film and video game production spends a large percentage...

Achieving believable motion in animation requires an understanding of physics that most of us missed out on in art school. Although animators often...

The latest edition of this bestselling game development reference offers proven tips and techniques for the real-time rendering of special effects ...

Producing New and Digital Media is your essential guide to understanding new media, taking a deep dive into such topics as the cultural and social ...

This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century...

Producing New and Digital Media is your essential guide to understanding new media, taking a deep dive into such topics as the cultural and social ...

This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting di...

Increase the photorealism of your 3d visualizations with enhanced toolsets of V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max 2020. The book is filled with colorful illustrati...

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

This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting di...

This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through the different phases step by step. It follows a n...

DescriptionCooperative Gaming provides context and practical advice regarding diversity in the games industry. The book begins with a deep dive int...

This book teaches beginners and aspiring game developers how to develop 3D games with Unity. Thousands of commercial games have been built with Uni...

Digital art practitioners work under the constant threat of a medium – the digital – that objectifies the self and depersonalises artistic identiti...

This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through the different phases step by step. It follows a n...

Take your creativity to the next level with the ultimate artist's bible! Covering everything from how to draw and paint to ceramics, sculptures and...

This edited collection examines the gig economy in the age of convergence from a critical political economic perspective. Contributions explore how...

DescriptionCooperative Gaming provides context and practical advice regarding diversity in the games industry. The book begins with a deep dive int...

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also t...

Take your animations to the next level with this essential guide to Maya 2010. Packed with character animation techniques and the secrets of profes...

This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative represent...

Animation has a lot to do with acting. That is, character animation, not the standardized, mechanical process of animation. Acting and animation ar...

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 effec...

Want to work as a producer in the video games industry? Then this is the book for you. This book provides all the essential information and guidanc...

Game communities are inevitable – in fact, they’re one of the main features of a game. How can our online interactions be better, kinder, more prod...

Designing Virtual Worlds, authored by a true pioneer, stands as the most comprehensive examination of virtual-world design ever written. This semin...