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| Introduction | |
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| Animation, Visual Effects, and Technology in Context | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Digital Creative Environment | |
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| The Development of the Technology | |
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| Visual Milestones: 1969-1989 | |
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| Visual Milestones: 1990-Today | |
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| Timeline Charts | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Creative Development and the Digital Process | |
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| Summary | |
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| Storytelling | |
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| Character Design | |
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| Visual and Look Development | |
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| Production Strategies | |
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| The Digital Computer Animation Studio | |
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| Creative and Production Teams | |
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| The Production Process of Computer Animation | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Modeling | |
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| Modeling Concepts | |
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| Summary | |
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| Space, Objects, and Structures | |
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| Building with Numbers | |
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| Vertices, Edges, and Facets | |
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| Moving Things Around | |
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| File Formats for Modeling | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Modeling Techniques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Curved Lines | |
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| Geometric Primitives | |
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| Sweeping | |
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| Free-Form Objects | |
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| Basic Modeling Utilities | |
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| Real-Time Polygonal Models | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Advanced Modeling and Rigging Techniques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Free-form Curved Surfaces | |
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| Subdivision Surfaces | |
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| Logical Operators and Trimmed Surfaces | |
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| Advanced Modeling Utilities | |
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| Procedural Descriptions and Physical Simulations | |
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| Photogrammetry and Image-Based Modeling | |
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| Amination Rigging and Hierarchical Structures | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Rendering | |
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| Rendering Concepts | |
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| Summary | |
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| Lights, Camera, and Materials | |
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| Color | |
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| Steps in the Rendering Process | |
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| Hidden Surface Removal | |
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| Z-Buffer | |
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| Ray Tracing | |
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| Global Illumination and Radiosity | |
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| Image-Based Rendering | |
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| Non-Photorealistic Rendering | |
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| Hardware Rendering | |
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| File Formats for Rendered Images | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Camera | |
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| Summary | |
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| Types of Cameras | |
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| The Pyramid of Vision | |
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| Types of Camera Shots | |
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| Types of Lenses | |
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| Camera Animation | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Lighting | |
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| Summary | |
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| Lighting Strategies and Mood | |
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| Types of Light Sources | |
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| Basic Components of a Light Source | |
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| Lighting the Scene | |
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| Basic Positions of Light Sources | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Shading and Surface Characteristics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Surface Shading Techniques | |
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| Surface Shaders and Multi-Pass Rendering | |
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| Image Mapping | |
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| Surface Reflectivity | |
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| Surface Color | |
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| Surface Texture | |
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| Surface Transparency | |
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| Environment-Dependent Shading | |
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| Selected Rendering Hacks | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Animation and Effects | |
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| Principles of Animation | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Craft of Animation | |
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| The Twelve Principles | |
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| A Few More Principles | |
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| Character Development | |
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| Storyboarding | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Computer Animation Techniques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keyframe Interpolation and Parameter Curves | |
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| Forward Kinetics and Model Animation | |
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| Camera Animation | |
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| Light Animation | |
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| Hierarchical Character Animation | |
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| Two- and Three-Dimensional Integration | |
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| Animation File Formats | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Advanced Computer Animation Techniques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Inverse Kinematics | |
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| Performance Animation and Motion Capture | |
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| Motion Dynamics and Fluid Simulations | |
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| Procedural Animation | |
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| Facial Animation | |
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| Crowd Animation | |
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| Location-Based and Interactive Entertainment | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Visual Ef | |