Digital Animation Bible

Creating Professional Animation With Lightwave, Maya & Flash

George Avgerakis

330 pages, parution le 18/11/2003

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Résumé

MASTER DIGITAL ANIMATION—USING THE THREE HOTTEST PROGRAMS

Essential to today's commercials, feature films, games corporate presentations, and education digital animation is the hottest career prospect in the media creation business. In this new arena, creativity is king, not the size of your studio.

In the Digital Animation Bible, Videography and Digital Cinema magazine Contributing Editor George Avgerakis, a professional digital animator and videographer, gives you everything you need to get started, showing how any determined and creative reader can master this exciting new field by learning the fundamentals -- and getting comfortable with any of the three leading software packages that form the common language of contemporary digital animation.

STEP BY STEP: HOW TO SET UP AND OPERATE YOUR OWN DIGITAL ANIMATION STUDIO

Digital Animation Bible:

Helps you get your fist professional experience as an intern
Provides essential information on choosing and using the right software, with dozens of hands-on examples
Shows you how to put together a killer show reel
Guides you into your first paying job, from interview to paycheck
Shows you how to take a client from a need to a complete storyboard
Helps you originate, define, and render unforgettable characters
Facilitates your skill in lighting 3-D animations
Prepares you for your new life as a professional digital animator or studio owner!

Join the ranks of creative, highly paid digital animators! Everything you need is in this book, including a CD and (mailer for) FREE learning versions of 3ds max, Lightwave, Maya and other useful animationsoftware!

Preface
Your First Day on the Job
From Concept to Screen: The Workflow Process
Investing in the Necessary Equipment
The Mechanics of Three Leading Animation Programs
Objects and Surfaces
Let There Be (Rendered) Light
Rigging and Animating Characters
Index

L'auteur - George Avgerakis

George Avgerakis is VP Creative Director and co-founder of Avetka Productions Inc. (www.avekta.com) in New York City, a company that produces video, CD, DVD, website content, and print in English and all foreign languages. Educated at the University of Maryland and London Film School, Mr. Avgerakis produced the first co-production between Public Television and a corporate entity, the first Russian infomercial, and the first pilot for an American-made sitcom for the ex-Soviet states. His animation work has been featured on all major US networks. His clients include AOL Time Warner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, JVC, Forbes, HP, Brink's, Microsoft, IBM, and Pfizer. George is Contributing Editor of Videography and Digital Cinema magazine and has lectured at the University of Maryland, London University, CUNY, Iona College, DVExpos East and West, and the National Association of Broadcasters convention.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	George Avgerakis
Parution	18/11/2003
Nb. de pages	330
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	630g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071414944