Box The Evolution of Character Design

Box collects various exciting, cutting edge elements of the graphic world of character, toy and print design by presenting work from 71 artists in different fields around the globe in an impressive compendium of innovation, eye candy and inspiration. Alth...

 I Love U Baby Characters Collection Book

Unheard of a few years ago, 'character design' is now an everyday term in modern design vernacular. Having started out as no more than a designer's hobby, it has quickly evolved into a lucrative business. Be it a12" vinyl character with a Mohawk, an alien...

 Digital Character Animation 3

Long-awaited update to animation classic will have readers creating life-like digital characters in no time! Author George Maestri is a well-known writer, director, and producer who's created animation for clients such as Nickelodeon, Warner Bros and D...

  Character Animation 2D Skills for Better 3D

Improve your character animation with a mastery of traditional principles and processes including weight and balance, timing, walks, birds, fish, snakes, four legged animals, acting and lip-synch. Traditional animation skills and techniques are presented ...

  Introducing Character Animation with Blender

Open your mind to the possibilities Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software that will bring your ideas to life. Using clear step-by-step instruction and pages of real-wor...

 Inspired 3D Advanced Rigging and Deformations

A Behind-The-Scenes Guide To The Rigging Process More than just a step-by-step tutorial on rigging in Maya, Inspired 3D Advanced Rigging and Deformations helps you develop the skills you need to successfully manage your rigging process from start to fi...

 Java I/O Putting I/O to Work

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Java provides many different kinds of streams, each with its own application. The universe of streams is divided into fo...

  Edgeloop Character Modeling For 3D Professionals Only

Learn the secrets for breathing life into your characters Edgeloops are made for animation. They isolate and define major physical features, enabling you to add detail and mold the elements that give your characters personality, realistic form, and natur...

 Game Story and Character Development

Game Story & Character Development - the newest installment in Thomson's acclaimed Game Development Essentials series-shows how to create compelling stories and characters specifically for games. The book examines the history of storytelling, traditio...

  Modeling a Character in 3DS Max

In this update to his best-selling character modeling book, professional modeler and animator Paul Steed shares a number of tips, tricks, and techniques that have made him one of the industry's most recognized 3D artists. Modeling a Character in 3ds max, ...

  Model Rig Animate with 3ds max 7

3ds max is the application of choice for professional animators working in game design and film effects because of its amazing set of character animation and modeling tools. But while the results these professionals achieve can be stunningly complex, mode...

  3ds Max 6 Animation CG Filmmaking from Concept to Completion

Bring your animation career to life with this one-of-a-kind guide illustrating in detail each step of production of a short film. Follow examples and situations proposed by the author designed to facilitate coverage of most aspects of CG animation, touchi...

  3DS MAX 6 Animation with Character Studio 4 and Plug-ins

Demonstrating how to animate a character with perfect anatomy, this guide covers the newest release of the 3ds max animation software. Described are techniques for modeling and texturing, applying the new features of Character Studio 4, and using the Stit...

  Game Character Development with Maya

If you thought Angelina Jolie was responsible for Lara Croft's curves, think again! Long before the Hollywood actress brought the Tomb Raider heroine to life, Alias' 3D modeling software Maya was used to create the lovely Lara; Ms. Jolie simply filled in ...

  Learning Maya 6 - Character rigging and animation

Learning Maya 6 Character Rigging and Animation will allow you to explore character rigging based on a human character - walking you through the process as you rig arms, legs, a face and even complex joints such as shoulders and hands. By learning the fun...

  Maya Character Animation Sophisticated guide to modeling, rigging, and animation techniques

This second edition of the popular Maya Character Animation is an in-depth, step-by-step guide to perfecting your modeling and animation skills. Abundantly illustrated tutorials teach you how to build life-like characters from the ground up, with detailed...

 Maya Character Creation Modeling and animation control

A unique, in-depth approach to creating realistic characters in Maya. Maya Character Creation: Modeling and Animation Controls' author, Chris Maraffi, has expertise in the field and in the classroom that translates to the knowledge and solid teaching skil...

  Producing Independent 2D Character Animation Making and Selling A Short Film

Take your project from concept to creation--then take it to market· Learn story development, character design, audio recording, editing, ink and paint, compositing, and the software available to enhance your animated films· Complete with project organi...

 Maya Character Animation

Maya Character Animation is a one-of-a-kind book featuring more than 800 pages of full-color, step-by-step, heavily illustrated Maya instruction. It was written with beginning and intermediate Maya animators in mind—students and professionals who ha...

  Unicode Standard, Version 4.0 The Unicode Consortium

The authoritative guide to universal character encoding The official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646 The key to advancing global interoperability in information technology products Unicode 4.0, The Unicode Standard The Unicode Standard provides a uni...

  Learning Maya 5 - Character rigging and animation

New for Maya 5! Updated from the popular Learning Maya | Character Rigging and Animation, the book's latest edition will allow you to explore powerful new features in Maya 5 such as IK/FK Blending and Parent Constraints. We've also updated Melvin to a po...

  3ds max Advanced Animation and Visual Effects Techniques

3ds max Animation and Visual Effects Techniques provides you with an organized and thorough process for integrating all of the features of 3ds max to create, animate, render, and finish an animation project. All of the visual effects and animation techniq...

  Real-Time 3D Character Animation With Visual C++

Learn how to create and program real-time 3D character animation using the Visual C++ source code on the free CD-ROM· Get up to speed with compression, vital for distribution of your games across the Internet· Improve your most marketable skills - see how...

  Modeling a Character with 3DS Max

Whether you're new to 3D Studio Max or you're an experienced developer working on your next game, Modeling a Character in 3DS Max will be an indispensable addition to your Max book collection. Paul Steed, modeler and animator of characters seen in id Soft...

 Inspired 3d Character Setup

Learn how to animate like Hollywood filmmakers! If you have experience working with 3D software, will teach you the craft of character animation using a variety of 3D tools. This book introduces and explores the concepts and theories of creating efficient...

 Unicode demystified A practical programmer's guide to the encoding standard

As the software marketplace becomes more global in scope, programmers are recognizing the importance of the Unicode standard for engineering robust software that works across multiple regions, countries, languages, alphabets, and scripts. Unicode Demystif...

  The Unicode Standard Version 3.0

The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 The authoritative, technical guide to the creation of software for worldwide use. Detailed specifications for Unicode: Structure, conformance, encoding forms, character properties, semantics, equiva lence, combining cha...

  Softimage XSI Character Animation f/x and Design

Readers will discover the important pre-production steps in creating a 3D character through developing inspirational illustrations, character bio, and creating a design sheet. This book will take the reader through the storyboard process from thumbnail an...

  Animating Real-Time Game Characters

Learn the basics of what makes a great character model and gain new insights to the many issues facing the character animator. Using the tried and proven methods found in Animating Real-Time Game Characters, you'll quickly bring your character animation t...