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Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment

by Carolyn Handler Miller

The first professional book to explore and analyze digital storytelling across interactive media and genres-this book examines how digital storytelling draws on classic narrative techniques and utilizes interactive...

Autodesk Combustion 4 Fundamentals Courseware

by Autodesk

Whether this is your first experience with Combustion software or you're upgrading to take advantage of the many new features and tools, this guide will serve as your ultimate resource to this all-in-one professional...

After Effects Expressions

by Marcus Geduld

Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques.

No programming skills are required. Foundation concepts and...

End-to-End Game Development: Creating Independent Serious Games and Simulations from Start to Finish

by Nick Iuppa, Terry Borst & Chris Simpson

You're part of a new venture, an independent gaming company, and you are about to undertake your first development project. The client wants a serious game, one with instructional goals and assessment metrics....

Cinema 4D 11 Workshop

by Arndt von Koenigsmarck

Model, texture and animate with Cinema 4D 11 using the techniques and tips provided in Cinema 4D 11 Workshop. Starting with all of the basic concepts, functions, and tools - follow along to the workshop tutorials...

Digital Compositing for Film and Video

by Steve Wright

Digital Compositing for Film and Video is a hands-on, practical, how-to guide that addresses the problems and difficult choices faced by the professional compositor in real-life situations. It presents techniques,...

Force: Animal Drawing: Animal locomotion and design concepts for animators

by Mike Mattesi

Many artists are unsure how to bridge the gap between the many basic 'how to draw' books and the more advanced ones dealing with the esoteric details of composition, perspective and anatomy. Force: Animal...

Creating 3D Game Art for the iPhone with Unity: Featuring modo and Blender pipelines

by Wes McDermott

Revolutionize your iPhone and iPad game development with Unity iOS, a fully integrated professional application and powerful game engine, which is quickly becoming the best solution for creating visually stunning...

Creating Games with Unity and Maya: How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games

by Adam Watkins

Unity brings you ever closer to the "author once, deploy anywhere" dream. With its multiplatform capabilities, you can target desktop, web, mobile devices, and consoles using a single development engine. Little...

Cinema and Inter-American Relations

by Adrián| Pérez Melgosa

Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America...

3ds Max Maxscript Essentials

by Autodesk

Write your own MAXScript functions and utilities to automate repetitive tasks and create custom tools and UI elements. Beginning with an introduction to essential programming concepts, you learn the MAXScript...

3ds Max Modeling for Games: Insider's Guide to Game Character, Vehicle, and Environment Modeling

by Andrew Gahan

The book will provide insider tips, traps, and techniques on how to create 3d assets for use in computer games and simulation systems. The book will consist of a series of tutorials, starting with simpler models...

Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation

by Francis Glebas

Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and moviemaking by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. Directing the...

Fix It In Post: Solutions for Postproduction Problems

by Jack James

This book provides an array of concise solutions to the wide variety of problems that are faced by postproduction artists in the post process. With an application-agnostic approach, it gives proven, step-by-step...

Digital Art Masters: Volume 4: Volume 4

by 3DTotal.com

Meet some of the finest 2D and 3D artists working in the industry today and discover how they create some of the most innovative digital art in the world. More than a gallery book or a coffee table book- Digital...

Digital Sculpting with Mudbox: Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists

by Mike de la Flor & Bridgette Mongeon

Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier sculpting solution...

Digital Painting Techniques: Masters Collection

by 3DTotal.com

Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration...

Flash MX Games: ActionScript for Artists

by Nik Lever

Learn the professional skills you need to make the best use of Flash for creating interactive animation and producing exciting, dynamic Internet content. Nik Lever, writing as an artist for artists, takes you...

Elemental Magic , Volume 2: The Technique of Special Effects Animation

by Joseph Gilland

Design beautiful, professional-level animated effects with these detailed step-by-step tutorials from former Disney animator and animated effects expert Joseph Gilland. Filled with beautiful, full-color artwork,...

The Immersive Worlds Handbook: Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

by Scott Lukas

Scott Lukas, famed industry expert on designing themed spaces, brings you a book that focuses on the imaginative world of themed, immersive and consumer spaces. Whether or not you are involved in designing a...