Animation ebook Collection
Ultimate CD
Published on 8. August 2008
Software
CD-ROM
2482 pages
978-0-12-374640-5 (ISBN)
Description
Animation ebook Collection contains 5 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every graphics programmer and developer's library. Get access to over 2000 pages of reference material, at a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books.
This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 5 titles:
Raghavachary, Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan, 9780240519357
Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, 9781558608481
Parent, Computer Animation, 9780125320009
Menache, Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games, 9780124906303
Badler, Making them move, 9781558601062
Animation ebook Collection contains 5 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every graphics programmer and developer's library. Get access to over 2000 pages of reference material, at a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books.
This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 5 titles:
Raghavachary, Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan, 9780240519357
Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, 9781558608481
Parent, Computer Animation, 9780125320009
Menache, Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games, 9780124906303
Badler, Making them move, 9781558601062
This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 5 titles:
Raghavachary, Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan, 9780240519357
Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, 9781558608481
Parent, Computer Animation, 9780125320009
Menache, Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games, 9780124906303
Badler, Making them move, 9781558601062
Animation ebook Collection contains 5 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every graphics programmer and developer's library. Get access to over 2000 pages of reference material, at a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books.
This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 5 titles:
Raghavachary, Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan, 9780240519357
Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, 9781558608481
Parent, Computer Animation, 9780125320009
Menache, Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games, 9780124906303
Badler, Making them move, 9781558601062
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Burlington
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Graphics designers and programmers, game developers, technical directors, animators and artists looking to understand the foundations of animation in order to improve studio work.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
90 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-374640-5 (9780123746405)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
A senior graphics software developer at DreamWorks Feature Animation. He has written software used in The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Shark Tale. He is also a part-time instructor at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, USA where he teaches RenderMan and MEL (Maya) programming.
Rick Parent is an Associate Professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches computer graphics and computer animation. His research in computer animation focuses on its relation to modeling and animating the human figure, with special emphasis on geometric modeling and implicit surfaces. Rick earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Dayton. In 1977, he was awarded "Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award" (one of four given nationally) by the NCC. He has served on numerous SIGGRAPH committees, in addition to the Computer Graphics International 2000 Program Committee and the Computer Animation '99 Program Committee and is on the editorial board of the Visual Computer Journal.
Alberto Menache founded Three Space Imagery, Inc. (TSi), a computer graphics and video game developer, in Los Angeles, where he and his team developed proprietary software for motion capture usage in animation. After selling his software to Motion Analysis Corporation, Menache moved on to Pacific Data Images, a computer graphics industry leader, where he is the lead character technical director at the commercial and film effects division. His latest production credits include the film Forces of Nature, commercials for SEGA, Circle K and Pillsbury, the award-winning music video for TLC's "Waterfalls", and dozens of video games, including Dark Ridge, Messiah and Soul Blade.
A senior graphics software developer at DreamWorks Feature Animation. He has written software used in The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Shark Tale. He is also a part-time instructor at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, USA where he teaches RenderMan and MEL (Maya) programming.
Rick Parent is an Associate Professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches computer graphics and computer animation. His research in computer animation focuses on its relation to modeling and animating the human figure, with special emphasis on geometric modeling and implicit surfaces. Rick earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Dayton. In 1977, he was awarded "Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award" (one of four given nationally) by the NCC. He has served on numerous SIGGRAPH committees, in addition to the Computer Graphics International 2000 Program Committee and the Computer Animation '99 Program Committee and is on the editorial board of the Visual Computer Journal.
Alberto Menache founded Three Space Imagery, Inc. (TSi), a computer graphics and video game developer, in Los Angeles, where he and his team developed proprietary software for motion capture usage in animation. After selling his software to Motion Analysis Corporation, Menache moved on to Pacific Data Images, a computer graphics industry leader, where he is the lead character technical director at the commercial and film effects division. His latest production credits include the film Forces of Nature, commercials for SEGA, Circle K and Pillsbury, the award-winning music video for TLC's "Waterfalls", and dozens of video games, including Dark Ridge, Messiah and Soul Blade.
Rick Parent is an Associate Professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches computer graphics and computer animation. His research in computer animation focuses on its relation to modeling and animating the human figure, with special emphasis on geometric modeling and implicit surfaces. Rick earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Dayton. In 1977, he was awarded "Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award" (one of four given nationally) by the NCC. He has served on numerous SIGGRAPH committees, in addition to the Computer Graphics International 2000 Program Committee and the Computer Animation '99 Program Committee and is on the editorial board of the Visual Computer Journal.
Alberto Menache founded Three Space Imagery, Inc. (TSi), a computer graphics and video game developer, in Los Angeles, where he and his team developed proprietary software for motion capture usage in animation. After selling his software to Motion Analysis Corporation, Menache moved on to Pacific Data Images, a computer graphics industry leader, where he is the lead character technical director at the commercial and film effects division. His latest production credits include the film Forces of Nature, commercials for SEGA, Circle K and Pillsbury, the award-winning music video for TLC's "Waterfalls", and dozens of video games, including Dark Ridge, Messiah and Soul Blade.
A senior graphics software developer at DreamWorks Feature Animation. He has written software used in The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Shark Tale. He is also a part-time instructor at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, USA where he teaches RenderMan and MEL (Maya) programming.
Rick Parent is an Associate Professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches computer graphics and computer animation. His research in computer animation focuses on its relation to modeling and animating the human figure, with special emphasis on geometric modeling and implicit surfaces. Rick earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Dayton. In 1977, he was awarded "Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award" (one of four given nationally) by the NCC. He has served on numerous SIGGRAPH committees, in addition to the Computer Graphics International 2000 Program Committee and the Computer Animation '99 Program Committee and is on the editorial board of the Visual Computer Journal.
Alberto Menache founded Three Space Imagery, Inc. (TSi), a computer graphics and video game developer, in Los Angeles, where he and his team developed proprietary software for motion capture usage in animation. After selling his software to Motion Analysis Corporation, Menache moved on to Pacific Data Images, a computer graphics industry leader, where he is the lead character technical director at the commercial and film effects division. His latest production credits include the film Forces of Nature, commercials for SEGA, Circle K and Pillsbury, the award-winning music video for TLC's "Waterfalls", and dozens of video games, including Dark Ridge, Messiah and Soul Blade.