The fundamentals of Hollywood film techniques are offered to producers of desktop computer animation in a multi-media format. For all levels of expertise and experience, this guide discusses writing, directing, producing and editing of animated films in detail through diagrams, storyboards and stills. The corresponding CD-ROM provides perspective through interactive exercises and software tools. Royalty-free segments, marketing reels, artist demo reels, animations, competition entries, samples of the author's own work and award winning films are used as examples to instruct and inspire. The aim is to teach the student about digital film making from the text, CD-ROM and accompanying video tape. Each CD-ROM chapter corresponds with a chapter from the book and contains interactive exercises and software tools.
The fundamentals of Hollywood film techniques are offered to producers of desktop computer animation in a multi-media format. For all levels of expertise and experience, this guide discusses writing, directing, producing and editing of animated films in detail through diagrams, storyboards and stills. The corresponding CD-ROM provides perspective through interactive exercises and software tools. Royalty-free segments, marketing reels, artist demo reels, animations, competition entries, samples of the author's own work and award winning films are used as examples to instruct and inspire. The aim is to teach the student about digital film making from the text, CD-ROM and accompanying video tape. Each CD-ROM chapter corresponds with a chapter from the book and contains interactive exercises and software tools.
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978-0-8273-7344-0 (9780827373440)
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Adjunct Professor, Houston Baptist University, Texas, USA
About the art of computer animation. Part 1 Overview: the medium and its message; computer animation as filmaking; challenges and opportunities. Part 2 Computer animation and filmmaking: what is computer animation; what is filemaking. Part 3 Creating a computer animated film: computer animation as cinematography; editing the relation of scene to scene; the scene and its characteristics; sound; planning an animated film; critical analysis of media productions. Part 5 The digital desktop movie studio: 2-dimensional computer animation; 3-dimensional computer animation; editing software; other tools; hardware; computer animation markets.
