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This book celebrates 40 years of the Aardman studio and showcases the evolution of the original ideas behind the creations - from initial playful outlines where the characters were developed sketch by sketch, through to beautiful concept art, creating the mood and building the settings for those memorable moments. Taking the reader on a tour through the Aardman archives, detailing the creation of fantastic worlds, mechanical marvels and the wonderful creations that come together to make some of the world's best-loved animations. With forwards from Peter Lord and David Sproxton, and featuring extracts from the sketchbooks of creators and directors including Nick Park, Peter Lord and Richard Starzak, this book is a celebration of all the artists and sculptors whose creativity has made Aardman one of the most loved and respected animation studios in the world.

Aardman Animations (Firm) --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Clay animation films --- Animated films

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"Throughout time and across cultures, dragons have existed as part of our collective imagination, breathing fire, guarding treasure, and embodying magic. Some are evil, some are kind -- but all are fascinating. The Walt Disney Company has had a long-standing fascination with dragons, and this book -- conceived as a sketchbook handed down through generations of Disney artists -- chronicles the impact that dragons have had on Disney films, parks, and resorts. Inside these pages are the bold storyboards of Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent, color concepts of Epcot's Figment (who was green before he became purple!), playful studies of Mulan's Mushu, and production poses of Elliot from 2016's Pete's Dragon, directed by David Lowery. The illustrators -- a wide variety of animators, live-action studio artists, and Imagineers -- include Tim Burton, Rolly Crump, Marc David, Eric Goldberg, Bill Justice, John Hench, Joe Rohde, Chuck Ballew, and more."--Back cover.

Walt Disney Company. --- Dragons in art --- Dragons in motion pictures --- Animation (Cinematography)

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"Animation in Context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis. By making academic language more accessible, it empowers animators with the confidence and enthusiasm to engage with theory as a fun, integral, and applied part of the creative process. Interviews with contemporary industry professionals and academics, student case studies and a range of practical research exercises, combine to encourage a more versatile approach to animation practice from creating storyboards to set designs and soundtracks; as well as developing virals, 3D zoetropes and projection mapping visuals. Mark Collington focuses on a core selection of theoretical approaches that shape animation narrative, supported by a broader set of shared theoretical principles from the worlds of art, design, film and media studies. This discussion is underpinned by cross-disciplinary thinking on a range of topics including genre, humour, montage and propaganda. These are applied to the analysis of a range of animated films and projects from Disney and Animé, to independent artist-filmmakers such as Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis and Jerzy Kucia. These ideas are also applied to other uses of animation such as advertising, sitcom, gaming and animated documentary." -- Provided by publisher.

Animated films --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Philosophy. --- 799.91 --- narratologie --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) --- Animated videos --- Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture cartoons --- Moving-picture cartoons --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Motion pictures --- Abstract films --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Animation cels --- Philosophy --- animatiefilm, geschiedenis

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A recipe-based guide to give you practical information on Unity 5.x animation techniques and tools About This Book A straightforward and easy-to-follow format. A selection of the most important tasks and problems. Carefully organized instructions to solve problems efficiently. Clear explanations of what you did. Solutions that can be applied to solve real-world problems. Who This Book Is For This book is for Unity developers who have some exposure to Unity game development who want to learn the nuances of animation in Unity. Previous knowledge of animation techniques and mecanim is not necessary. What You Will Learn Importing animations to Unity Work with different animation assets and components Create, visualize, and edit animated creatures Animating game cut scenes Design character actions and expressions Create gameplay by animating characters and environments Use animations to drive in-game logic In Detail This recipe-based practical guide will show you how to unleash the power of animation in Unity 5.x and make your games visually impeccable. Our primary focus is on showing you tools and techniques to animate not only humanoid biped characters, but also other elements. This includes non-humanoid character animation, game world creation, UI element animation, and other key features such as opening doors, changing lights, transitioning to different scenes, using physics, setting up ragdolls, creating destructible objects and more. While discussing these topics, the book will focus on mecanim, the Unity 3D animation tool, and how you can use it to perform all these tasks efficiently and quickly. It contains a downloadable Unity project with interactive examples for all the recipes. By the end of this book, you will be confident and self-sufficient in animating your Unity 3D games efficiently. Style and approach This practical no-nonsense guide is recipe-based with real-world examples of almost all the techniques mentioned.

Computer animation. --- Computer graphics. --- Computer animation --- Animation, Computer --- Computer-assisted filmmaking --- Computer-generated animation --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Computer graphics --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Programming. --- Digital techniques --- Unity (Electronic resource)

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This book builds on your knowledge of ActionScript and takes you on the fast track to developing iOS apps with Swift, Apple’s latest language. Swift’s syntax is easier to understand than Objective-C for people already familiar with ActionScript. At the same time, it offers a number of new features and richer expressiveness than either ActionScript or Objective-C. Switching to a new platform usually involves migration on three levels: tools, workflow, and programming language. Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript is structured as a guide that will help you on each level with step-by-step tutorials. Apart from the tutorials, it comes with recipes for some of the most popular mobile development topics: social network integration and messaging, taking advantage of device capabilities, networking and working with local and iCloud data, advertising in your app or game, and working with 2D and 3D graphics. The book also includes a final chapter that takes you through Apple’s App Store submission process. Don’t just build your apps, sell them. This book Leverages your ActionScript skills and experience to give you a head start with Swift and iOS, including updates for Swift 3 Gives you the fastest way to migrate to a new set of tools, workflow, and programming language with illustrated step-by-step tutorials Walks you through a tutorial for developing more complex UIs Serves as a quick reference with recipes for specific mobile development tasks Provides a set of focused chapters that serve as both introduction and reference for the Swift language.

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