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Character Animation: 2D Skills for Better 3D 2nd Edition
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.
CONTENTS:
Introduction to 2D-animation working practice, matter and the animation of inanimate objects, the construction of a simple character, its articulation , and balance, timing, anticipation, overshoot, follow-through and overlapping action with an animated character, human walks and runs, animal walks and runs, animation of fish and snakes, animation of birds, animation of acting -- body language, animation of acting -- facial expressions, animation of acting -- two or more characters, lip-sync.
The CD ROM includes 20 fully built and rigged models to animate with; over 50 tutorials on how to build and animate these models; 140 2D and 3D animated movies as examples; 22 live action movies as guidance and a free demo copy of DigiCel FlipBook line test software.
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