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XSI Character Modeling for Animation
DVD by Mesmer Press teaches you the basics
of modeling character in XSI.
DVD (May, 2004)
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Maya Character Animation
Maya Character Animation is a one-of-a-kind
book featuring more than 800 pages of full-color, step-by-step,
heavily illustrated Maya instruction. It was written with beginning
and intermediate Maya animators in mind--students and professionals
who have already familiarized themselves with the Maya interface
and basic Maya techniques. Topics covered include subdivision
and polygon modeling, subdivision surface mapping, subdivision
surface character modeling, NURBS modeling, facial expression,
binding characters, character setup, and nonlinear animation.
Maya Character Animation also features in-depth coverage of Deep
Paint 3D, a premiere texture painting program.
Paperback 832 pages with CD-Rom (December, 2002)
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3D Studio Max - Beyond
the Basics Series - Character Modeling
Character Modeling is one of the most difficult parts
of 3D animation, and the one thing everyone wants to learn. Where
to start and what processes to use are baffling questions. Should
I use NURBS, patches, polygonal splines, primitives, Metaballs
or what? Confusing, isn't it? Most importantly, what to use is
covered in this very advanced video featuring top character modeler/animator
Boris Ustaev. Boris takes you through building the most complex
character that everyone wants to build, "a woman", step-by-step.
This work can sometimes be tedious and frustrating, but after
you see how to approach the problem, it will be clear how to attack
other tasks. Boris gives you the secrets of modeling strange creatures
to animals to human figures with the right tool for the right
job. Build a better body the first time.
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3D Studio Max - Beyond
the Basics Series -
Character Studio Advanced Techniques
Creating a 3D character is great, but bringing it
to life is what everyone wants to know how to do. Correctly animating
all the movements, blending different motions together, adding
muscle bulges, and bending joints without stray vertices can be
confusing and sometimes frustrating without proper instruction.
Boris Ustaev, one of the leading authorities in character animation
using Character Studio 2.0 for 3D Studio MAX, makes it look easy
and gives you the benefit of his experience. Boris takes you through
the three different modes that make up the general structure panel
(Figure Mode, Footstep Mode, and Motion Flow Mode) and incorporates
them in a variety of Biped creatures, using Hand Animation, Inverse
and Forward Inverse Kinematics, Key-Reduction, and Motion Capture.
He also covers creating Quadrapedic creatures and shows the use
of Physique, Key Info, and Layers. Let's watch the master in motion!
VHS tape
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The Animator's Survival
Kit
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy
Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation
is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today -- and the master
animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard
Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams
has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards
and serving as the link between Disney's golden age of animation
by hand and the new computer animation...
Paperback - 352 pages
(December 2001)
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Modeling A Character In
3DS MAX
Whether you’re new to 3D Studio Max or you’re
an experienced developer working on your next game, Modeling a
Character in 3DS Max will be an indispensable addition to your
Max book collection. Paul Steed, modeler and animator of characters
seen in id Software’s Quake II and Quake III Arena, shows
you all the tips, tricks, and techniques that have made him one
of the industry’s most recognized 3D artists. Essentially
one long tutorial, this book chronicles the creation of a single
character from concept to texture mapping. Using each body part
as an opportunity to illustrate a different modeling method, Steed
runs the gamut of character creation.
350 pages Bk&Cd-Rom
(July 30, 2001)
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Animation with Character
Studio 3
Learn the basics plus all the new features of character
studio 3! Covers basic biped posing and footstep animation, along
with tips on adjusting Physique vertex assignments. Learn to create
a crowd scene with flying objects or bipeds, and how to use the
new IK tools for freeform walk cycles and animation. Also includes
Motion Flow, freeform animation, making a biped's hands or feet
link to an object, muscle bulges, and more! CD of tutorial files
and samples included.
200 pages (November
15, 2000)
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3D Studio Max 3.0 - Lip
Sync - Making Your Characters Talk
A great VHS training tape. learn the
basics of lipsynching making your characters talk In 3D Studio
MAX.
VHS Video Tape
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Character Animation with
LightWave 6
This book presents the latest upgrades, tips, tricks,
and techniques in a step-by-step, practical approach that results
in professional, high-quality projects, such as facial animation
and walking. Steps you through how to create your own character
animation demo reel. Discusses how to break into the character
animation field, including how to get an interview with one of
many animation studios. An intermediate to advanced level guide
to using Lightwave 6 to create character animation.
816 pages Book&Cd-Rom
(November 2000)
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Acting for Animators
Until now, animators who have wanted to learn about
acting have had no option but to study the subject side by side
with stage and movie actors, a group that uses acting techniques
in a wholly different way. Ed Hooks offers a better alternative
with Acting for Animators, the first book about acting theory
and technique written specifically for the animator. Animators
need to know a lot about acting, but they don't need to know everything.
Acting for Animators sorts out the acting theory that animators
need, presenting it in a form and with references that are more
relevant to the animator's world.
160 pages Bk&Cd-Rom
(January 2001)
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Organic Modeling - Video
Training CD for 3d studio max® 3.1
This 3-1/2 hour Interactive Training CD will show
you how to build a caveman with Box Modeling, a modern man with
Surface Tools, and an alien with NURBS. You should already be
familiar with 3ds max™ and ready to start modeling more complicated
free-form shapes. This CD works on any computer that can handle
3ds max™ and has a sound card. Have your own personal instructor
on CD and stay on top with the fastest way to learn. Models included
on CD.
CD Rom (January, 2001)
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3D Studio MAX 3 Professional
Animation
Most of this book covers techniques for character
animation, starting with Max's basic deformation tools in chapter
1, "Animating with Multiple Modifiers," to more advanced tools
like Maxscript, sliders, adjusting spring-back values for joints,
and creating constraints to control bone movement. Wonderful examples
demonstrate rigging characters for movement, controlling and constraining
movement, and working around such problems as gimbal lock.
The book assumes the reader has some experience with Max, and
it does not pause to measure your skills. Budding animators still
honing their model-making skills will find Max project files (including
the models used in the book) on the accompanying CD-ROM. The last
third of the book, "Animating the Environment," concentrates on
other types of noncharacter animation. This includes controlling
the camera, animating lights, and adding animation effects such
as particle systems to create smoke and dust.
634 page Book&Cd-Rom
(February 2000)
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3D Creature Workshop
For LightWave, 3D studio MAX, and Animation Master.
Learn all the modeling and surfacing techniques
needed to create professional quality creatures. You learn how
to create everything from fabulous monsters to action heroes by
using LightWave 5.5, 3D Studio Max 2.0, and Animation:Master 5.
The book begins by helping you determine what
your creature will look like by first thinking about its habitat,
diet, defenses, and other traits. Learn LightWave's Metaform and
the polygon-smoothing feature, 3D Studio Max's Bezier-patch modeling
feature and the Surfacetools plugin, and Animation:Master's Hash-spline
modeling feature. Learn to surface your characters using image
maps for color, bump, specularity, and diffusion. The book also
covers the addition of, scars, wrinkles, veins, light, and depth.
402 pages- Book & CD-ROM (May, 1998)
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Animating Facial Features
and Expressions
Creating realistic animated characters and
creatures is a major challenge for computer artists, but getting
the facial features and expressions right is probably the most
difficult aspect. In this one-of-a-kind book, readers will find
an in-depth resource to guide them through the entire process
from the history of facial animation and anatomical structures,
to expressing emotions and speech visually. An indispensable tool
for animators of all levels.
402 pages- Book & CD-ROM (December, 1998)
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Digital Character Animation
2
This new edition of Maestri's previous book
covers modeling, skeletal deformation techniques, and animation
timing and lip sync. Luckily, it doesn't neglect the fundamental
building blocks of good, basic character animation techniques,
to which the book devotes an entire chapter. This book
does not get caught up in photo-realistic textures, rendering
issues, or software-specific tips and tricks. It is ideally suited
for someone striving to learn the craft of character animation
using 3D tools, who wants to breathe life into each frame of animation.
280 pages- Book & CD-ROM (July 1999)
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