Gaming & Animation

Get an inside look at the creation of production-ready creature rigs for film, TV and video games. This book gives you the practical, hands-on approaches to rigging you need, with a theoretical look at 12 rigging principles, and plenty of tips, tricks and techniques to get you up and running quickly..

Provides insight on both from a team of animation greats, headed up by this renowned director of Mulan. This title covers the art and business of directing animation - from the creative process and artistic expression to budgets and schedules...

Urban nature conservation is a field that has grown rapidly in importance over the past 20 years and will continue to do so in the coming years as landscape ecology and greenspace planning become established disciplines. A widespread concern and interest in the wild plants and animal life found in ..

Every step of the process covered and every shortcut and tip you need for creating a 3D animated short..

Game AI Pro3: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents state-of-the-art tips, tricks, and techniques drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field. This book acts as a toolbox of proven techniques coupled with the newest advances..

Game Audio Implementation..

This is an edited volume comprised of 20-30 chapters written by game audio programmers and sound designers. A basic knowledge of programming and audio integration techniques is presented. One of the goals of this book is to raise the general level of game audio programming expertise, so it is writte..

Game Development Tools..

Game Programming for Artists provides a foundation for artists to jumpstart learning to program their own games. It is an accessible, conversational and practical guide. The best way to get into games is to make one, and this book will help artists do that!..

This collection of case studies presents the latest interdisciplinary research and applications of games user research in determining and developing usability. Highlights include explorations of practical and ethical concerns in conducting usability testing with children, audio experiences in games,..

_x005F_x000D_This book is an easy to use introduction to working with ZBrush that will allow anyone to improve the quality of their 3d work and illustrations by reading it...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to visual computing, dealing with the modeling and synthesis of visual data by means of computers. What sets this book apart from other computer graphics texts is the integrated coverage of computer graphics and visualization topics, including important tech..