Based on 10 years of animation teaching experience, this comprehensive guide to key techniques will ensure your skills best fit the computer animation workplace. A complete understanding of the vital animation drawing skills will be achieved by learning the pitfalls in a 2D exercise then applying these skills when using 3D animation packages. Providing a broad coverage this book will be relevant whatever 3D package you use, Softimage XSI, Maya, 3ds max or LightWave. Just knowing and being able to use a specific 3D software package does not make you an animator, but reading this book will! The Free CD-ROM includes; how to animate exercises in each specific 3d animation program; short movies showing best practice; computer models so you can experiment and learn; a free demo copy and discount code for the best 2D animation software you can buy, DigiCel FlipBook. www.characteranimationin3d.com, provides further resources about the world of animation, extensive list of links, how to get a job, build a lightbox, make an animated movie and much more! * Improve your 3D animation by understanding the key 2D skills * Inspiring coverage for all that is needed to produce original, humorous and exciting animation * Free CD-ROM with short movies relating to each chapter plus the computer models so you can create as you follow the book's tutorials

Character Animation in 3D, : Use traditional drawing techniques to produce stunning CGI animation

Computers & Technology

Roberts, Steve

Web Development & Design

Focal Press

Improve your character animation with a mastery of traditional principles and processes including weight and balance, timing, walks, birds, fish, snakes, four legged animals, acting and lip-synch. Traditional animation skills and techniques are presented in both 2D and 3D space. The companion CD features demonstration animations and exercises conducted in each of the major animation packages including 3ds Max, LightWave, Maya, and XSI Softimage. * Readers will achieve improved 3D animation with a practical understanding of foundational animation skills * Theory is balanced with practical exercises in drawn and 3D animation. * Companion CD-ROM includes short demonstration movies, 3D exercises, and 20 rigged models for practice.

Character Animation: 2D Skills for Better 3D

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Character Animation Fundamentals: Developing Skills for 2D and 3D Character Animation

Expand your animation toolkit and remain competitive in the industry with this leading resource for 2D and 3D character animation techniques. Apply the industry's best practices to your own workflows and develop 2D, 3D and hybrid characters with ease. With side by side comparisons of 2D and 3D character design, improve your character animation and master traditional principles and processes including weight and balance, timing and walks. Develop characters inspired by humans, birds, fish, snakes and four legged animals. Breathe life into your character and develop a characters personality with chapters on acting, voice-synching and facial expressions. Expertly integrate core animation techniques with your software of choice featuring step-by-step tutorials, highlighting 3ds Max, Maya and Blender workflows. Adapt the tips, tricks and techniques for unique projects like character design for rotoscoping and motion capture. Advance beyond the fundamentals of 2D and 3D character animation with the companion website which includes short demonstration movies, 2D and 3D exercises and fully rigged character models. 
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<li>Enhance your 2D skillset to the benefit of your own 3D animations to develop characters that technically and artistically dynamic and engaging. </li> <li>Expand your Animation toolset and resume while learning how to develop and design 2D and 3D characters with ease with side by side comparisons of 2D and 3D walk cycles, timing, balance and facial expressions. </li> <li>Includes practical, hands-on examples, step by step tutorials, now fully updated to include 3ds Max, Maya and Blender tutorials. </li> <li>Explore the new trends in character animation with new content on motion capture and rotoscopy character design and master the fundamental techniques with the companion website which includes short demonstrations, 2D and 3D exercises and 20 fully rigged character models.</li> </ul>

Programming

Routledge

Edison Carter, a reporter, is determined to investigate the hazards produced by the new Blipverts and a plot to produce computer-generated personalities on television

Max Headroom: 20min F

Humor & Entertainment

Television

Vintage

Amazingly transformed by an incredible green mask with superhuman powers, ordinary guy Stanley Ipkiss finds himself outrunning suspicious government agents, local police, and his strange companions, Fish Guy and Putty Thing. Original.

Martian Mask (The Mask Series)

Children's Books

O'Neill, Laura

Literature & Fiction

scholastic

Direct marketing via the Internet is the best way to avoid the rising printing and mailing costs of traditional direct mail. Plus, it's more effective! An online campaign will often turn a profit even if the entire mailing produces only 1 percent response or less! If you're ready to try e-mail marketing, or if you're already doing it and want to know more, Internet Direct Mail has all the information you need. From selecting products and offers to writing copy and incorporating rich media-like video clips or audio into an e-mail, Internet Direct Mail shows you step by step how to create, send, and track a highly successful e-mail campaign. This guide also includes the authors' carefully compiled, invaluable lists of resources for: 
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<li>E-mail list brokers and service bureaus </li>
<li>Credit card companies and corporations offering merchants accounts </li>
<li>Books and software on Web marketing </li>
<li>Online advertising services </li>
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Internet Direct Mail offers insight, advice, and step-by-step assistance from seasoned direct-marketing professionals who have experienced great success with Internet campaigns. Their expert guidance will help you make sound decisions about your offer, your creative, your list, your fulfillment, your method of measurement, and many other issues--allowing you to start and run a smooth, professional, results-oriented e-mail campaign.

Internet Direct Mail : The Complete Guide to Successful E-Mail Marketing Campaigns

Business & Money

Feit, Michelle

Bly,Robert

Marketing & Sales

McGraw=Hill

King George III: England's Struggle to Keep America (Understanding the American Revolution)

King George III of England ruled in revolutionary times. Over the course of his reign from 1760 to 1820, he steered through the global conflict of the Seven Years' War, lost England's colonies in America, and battled against France during its own revolution and Napoleon's conquest of Europe. Readers will learn how King George's attempts at raising revenue for England through taxation in the colonies and the limitations he placed on land where colonists could settle set the stage for revolution.

Biographies

Crabtree Classics

Provides a biography of the eighteenth-century British monarch during whose reign the American colonies fought to break away from and form an independent nation.

Drawing on their reminiscenes from their own thirty-three-year union, two journalists shed new light on the institution of marriage, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of marriage in America.

From This Day Forward

Self-Help

Roberts, Cokie

Relationships

Thorndike Pr

Cool Mind Warm Heart is a classic in the spirit of Be Here Now and The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment...playful, kind, fiery, and deep. If the Dalai Lama married Tom Robbins, their love child might write this book - a celebration of the most inspiring (and terrifying) possibility the world has ever known: Everything is a Gift.

Cool Mind, Warm Heart: Adventures with Life's Biggest Secret

Religion & Spirituality

St. Lynn's Press

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Books by Roberts, Steve

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Roberts, Steve. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Character Animation in 3D, : Use traditional drawing techniques to produce stunning CGI animation

Character Animation: 2D Skills for Better 3D

Character Animation Fundamentals: Developing Skills for 2D and 3D Character Animation

Max Headroom: 20min F

Martian Mask (The Mask Series)

Internet Direct Mail : The Complete Guide to Successful E-Mail Marketing Campaigns

King George III: England's Struggle to Keep America (Understanding the American Revolution)

King George III: England's Struggle to Keep America (Understanding the American Revolution)

From This Day Forward

Cool Mind, Warm Heart: Adventures with Life's Biggest Secret