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Animation & Visual Effects: Library Resources

A Subject Guide for the School of Animation & Visual Effects

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[Digital] Visual Effects and Compositing

In this latest book in the critically acclaimed [digital] series from New Riders students will learn all of the techniques and skills that will take them from beginner to visual effects (VFX) professional in just one book. Seasoned visual effects producer Jon Gress has refined the teaching of the skills and techniques presented in this book for over a decade to distill them down to the most effective methodology, delivered in a way that's both fun and easy to understand while being state-of-the-art for industry professionals. 

Sketching for Animation

"Sketching for Animation helps ... [to] develop essential sketching and technical drawing techniques, demonstrating the pivotal role that even early scribbles can have in bringing an idea to fruition. Interviews and in-depth case studies from some of todays leading animators, including Glen Keane, Uli Meyer, John Canemaker and Tori Davis are interwoven throughout, providing a unique window into their working practices"--Back cover.

Compositing Visual Effects

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations, and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. 

The Color of Pixar

"Presents hundreds of film stills from the Pixar archives in a spectrum of color" -- Chronicle Books

Adobe after Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2018 Release)

"The 15 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Gain hands-on experience animating text and images, customizing a wide range of effects, tracking and syncing content, rotoscoping, and correcting color". --Adobe Press