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Chinese animation : a history and filmography, 1922-2012
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ISBN: 9780786459773 Year: 2015 Publisher: Jefferson McFarland

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"With an output of 250,000 minutes annually, and with 8,000 producers and production units around, the Chinese are leading the field of animated films. It is almost impossible to completely cover ninety years of filmmaking, this guide provides a comprehensible introduction to the industry's infancy, its Golden Age and today's Chinese animation"--


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Global animation theory : international perspectives at Animafest Zagreb
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ISBN: 9781501337130 1501337130 1501337149 1501337157 1501365010 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc

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Global Animation Theory offers detailed and diverse insights into the methodologies of contemporary animation studies, as well as the topics relevant for today's study of animation. The contact between practical and theoretical approaches to animation at Animafest Scanner, is closely connected to host of this event, the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb. It has given way to academic writing that is very open to practical aspects of animation, with several contributors being established not only as animation scholars, but also as artists. This anthology presents, alongside an introduction by the editors and a preface by well known animation scholar Giannalberto Bendazzi, 15 selected essays from the first three Animafest Scanner editions. They explore various significant aspects of animation studies, some of them still unknown to the English speaking communities.

Yellow crocodiles and blue oranges
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ISBN: 128286338X 9786612863387 0773572724 9780773572720 0773528717 9780773528710 6612863382 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montreal Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press

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MacFadyen further analyses Soviet animation through phenomenology, arguing that the latter is a viable alternative not only to dogmatic Marxism but also to the ideological vacuum of post-Soviet times. The book includes a comprehensive bibliography and filmography as well as a rich collection of images.

Animation Now!
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ISBN: 3822825883 9783822825884 Year: 2004 Publisher: Keulen Taschen Verlag

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Cette étude approfondie vous dévoilera tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur les grands spécialistes en animation du moment.Elle rassemble par ordre alphabétique environ 80 des artistes/studios du monde, en les assortissant d'exemples et de descriptions de leur travail, mais aussi de biographies, de filmographies, de listes de récompenses et d'informations de contact (liens internet, adresses mails et postales, contacts téléphoniques...etc).Vous trouverez également une présentation des meilleures écoles d'animation et, en prime, un DVD regroupant des extraits d'oeuvres, des "making of", des spots publicitaires, des bandes annonces et une sélection de courts métrages !


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Toy story : how Pixar reinvented the animated feature
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ISBN: 1501324942 1501324926 1501324918 1501354914 9781501324932 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), Pixar's first feature-length production and Hollywood's first completely computer-generated animated film, is an international cultural phenomenon. This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners who together explore the themes, compositional techniques, cultural significance and industry legacy of this landmark in contemporary cinema. Topics range from industrial concerns, such as the film's groundbreaking use of computer generated imagery and the establishment of Pixar as a major player in the animation world, to examinations of its music, aesthetics, and the role of toys in both the film and its fandom. The Toy Story franchise as a whole is also considered, with chapters looking at its cross-generational appeal and the experience of growing up alongside the series. As the first substantial work on this landmark film, this book will serve as an authoritative introduction for scholars, students and fans alike."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Ray Tracing: A Tool for All
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ISBN: 3030174905 3030174891 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview for anyone wanting to understand the benefits and opportunities of ray tracing, as well as some of the challenges, without having to learn how to program or be an optics scientist. It demystifies ray tracing and brings forward the need and benefit of using ray tracing throughout the development of a film, product, or building - from pitch to prototype to marketing. Ray Tracing and Rendering clarifies the difference between conventional faked rendering and physically correct, photo-realistic ray traced rendering, and explains how programmer’s time, and backend compositing time are saved while producing more accurate representations with 3D models that move. Often considered an esoteric subject the author takes ray tracing out of the confines of the programmer’s lair and shows how all levels of users from concept to construction and sales can benefit without being forced to be a practitioner. It treats both theoretical and practical aspects of the subject as well as giving insights into all the major ray tracing programs and how many of them came about. It will enrich the readers’ understanding of what a difference an accurate high-fidelity image can make to the viewer - our eyes are incredibly sensitive to flaws and distortions and we quickly disregard things that look phony or unreal. Such dismissal by a potential user or customer can spell disaster for a supplier, producer, or developer. If it looks real it will sell, even if it is a fantasy animation. Ray tracing is now within reach of every producer and marketeer, and at prices one can afford, and with production times that meet the demands of today’s fast world.


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Adaptation littéraire et courts métrages d'animation : au milieu de l'image coulent les textes
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ISBN: 9782343197562 2343197563 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : l'Harmattan,

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"Adaptation littéraire et courts métrages d'animation souhaite évoquer le flux, la perte, l'équilibre et le déséquilibre, en un mot une complexité, celle des rapports, des affinités électives, entre l'image mobile et le texte figé, sur un terrain mouvant où se rejoignent cinéma et littérature, et dont les méandres semblent avoir été bien traversés. Cet ouvrage, fruit d'une journée d'études (2017) et d'un colloque international (2018) tenus sous l'impulsion du CELEC de l'Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne et en collaboration avec le Festival Ciné Court Animé de Roanne, propose, à travers des approches à la fois divergentes et convergentes, d'explorer, de réexplorer les différents aspects des liens entre image et texte en se penchant spécifiquement sur le formidable espace ouvert par le court métrage d'animation."--Page 4 of cover.


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Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga of anime
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ISBN: 1315703157 1317467000 1282119370 9786612119378 0765622351 9780765622358 9781282119376 9781317467007 9780765616012 0765616017 0765616025 9780765616029 9781315703152 6612119373 9781317466987 9781317466994 1317466993 Year: 2008 Publisher: Armonk M.E.Sharpe

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This illustrated volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialities to explore the richness and subtleties of Japanese manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films)--and how they have become two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture.


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Grave of the fireflies
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ISBN: 9781838719241 1838719245 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury on behalf of the British Film Institute

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"Grave of the Fireflies (1988) is a Studio Ghibli masterpiece. Isao Takahata's portrait of two doomed orphans struggling under the firebombing of Japan is a deeply moving drama, which deftly weaves an intimate tragedy into the intricate moral tapestry of World War Two. The film's pioneering use of animation and nuanced treatment of its subject has earned it 'classic' status. Drawing on accounts by Ghibli staff members and untranslated Japanese sources, Alex Dudok de Wit describes the genesis of Grave of the Fireflies and profiles the key players involved in its making - including animation directors, background artists, colourists, voice actors and producers. He explains the influence of Akiyuki Nosaka's source novella and provides close readings of key scenes, spotlighting the film's sophisticated development of motifs, subtle evocation of ancient Japanese culture, and deployment of animation's language to tell a story that would have been ill-suited to live action. While Grave of the Fireflies has been widely interpreted as a anti-war film, Dudok de Wit argues that Takahata was more concerned about creating a complex portrayal of responsibility within Japanese society. His message to modern audiences was: communitarian values are still under pressure, even in peacetime, and must be upheld"--

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