Digital Animation Bible - Softcover

Avgerakis, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071414940 ISBN 13: 9780071414944

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education TAB, 2003

Synopsis

Digital animation has become essential part of commercials, corporate presentations, and filmmaking. Virtually every commercial on television, and most TV shows and films, use digital animation effects. Hugely reduced start up costs have resulted in small digital animation studios cropping up all over the country, and established video shops adding animation to their palettes. This is a one-stop resources for setting up and operating an animation studio – it deals with every basic digital animation technique in step by step methods, and covers each major software package available. It is designed to be a must-have resource for one of media’s fastest growing markets.

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About the Author

George Avgerakis began his computer animation career in 1976, producing effects for television commercials at Grey Advertising. He is cofounder of Avetka Productions in New York City, which produces animation, video, disc-based media, and Internet services, in English and all foreign languages, to Fortune 100 companies and worldwide broadcasters. His commercials and animations have been shown on all U.S. cable and broadcast networks. A founding contributing editor of Digital Cinema magazine, he has also served as Contributing Editor to Videography since 1996. The author of Desktop Video Studio Bible, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Los Angeles and New York DV (Digital Video) Expos. Mr. Avgerakis has also lectured at the University of Maryland, University of London and City University of New York.

From the Back Cover

JOIN THE RANKS OF CREATIVE, HIGHLY PAID DIGITAL ANIMATORS!

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!

Everything you need is in this book, including a CD that allows access to FREE learning versions of 3ds max, Lightwave, Maya and other useful animation software!

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education TAB
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071414940
• ISBN 13: 9780071414944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330