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| Preface | |
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| About the CD-ROM | |
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| Beginning Modeling Techniques | |
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| Modeling Simple Objects with Splines/NURBS | |
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| Modeling a Knife | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Modeling a Spoon | |
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| Modeling a Spatula | |
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| Modeling a Frying Pan | |
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| Modeling a Palette Knife | |
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| Modeling Simple Objects with Subdivision Surfaces | |
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| Modeling a Hammer | |
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| Modeling an Armchair | |
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| Intermediate Modeling Techniques | |
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| Creating a Cartoon Cow with Subdivision Modeling | |
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| The Cow Head | |
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| The Cow Body | |
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| Creating a Cartoon Chicken with Patch Spline/NURBS Modeling | |
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| Making the 3-D Template with Box Modeling | |
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| Patch Modeling the Chicken | |
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| Anatomy of the Human Figure | |
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| Proportion | |
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| The Skeleton | |
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| The Skull | |
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| The Skeleton of the Torso | |
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| The Bones of the Arm | |
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| The Bones of the Leg | |
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| The Muscles | |
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| The Muscles of the Head | |
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| The Muscles of the Neck | |
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| The Muscles of the Torso | |
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| The Muscles of the Arm | |
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| The Muscles of the Leg | |
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| Advanced Modeling Techniques, Part 1 | |
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| Patch Modeling the Head with Splines/NURBS | |
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| Advantages of Patch Modeling | |
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| Rules for Patch Modeling | |
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| Preparation for Modeling | |
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| Splines/NURBS Patch Modeling Procedure | |
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| The Female Head | |
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| The Male Head | |
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| Subdivision Modeling the Head with Polygons | |
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| Advanced Modeling Techniques, Part 2 | |
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| Modeling the Torso with Splines/NURBS | |
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| The Female Torso | |
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| The Male Torso | |
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| Subdivision Modeling the Torso with Polygons | |
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| Helpful Hints for Modeling Details | |
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| Completing the Subdivision Torso | |
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| Advanced Modeling Techniques, Part 3 | |
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| Modeling the Arm and Hand with Splines/NURBS | |
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| The Female Arm | |
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| The Hand | |
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| The Male Arm | |
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| Modeling the Arm and Hand with Subdivision Surface Polygons | |
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| Advanced Modeling Techniques, Part 4 | |
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| Modeling the Leg with Splines/NURBS | |
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| The Female Leg | |
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| The Male Leg | |
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| Converting a Spline/NURBS Model for Subdivision Surface Rendering | |
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| Modeling the Leg with Subdivision Surface Polygons | |
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| Advanced Modeling Techniques, Part 5 | |
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| The Eye | |
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| The Eyelashes | |
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| The Eyebrows | |
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| The Inside of the Mouth | |
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| The Teeth | |
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| The Gums | |
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| The Tongue | |
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| The Hair | |
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| Helmet Hair | |
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| Using a Hair Generator | |
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| Hair Generator Settings | |
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| Soft-Body Dynamics | |
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| Surface Settings | |
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| Setting Up the Human Model for Animation | |
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| Setting Up a Skeleton | |
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| Making a Skeleton | |
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| Assigning Weight Maps | |
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| Adjusting Weight Maps | |
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| Setting Up an Inverse Kinematics Skeleton | |
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| Setting Up Facial Expressions | |
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| Muscle Groups of the Face | |
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| Expressing Emotion | |
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| Creating Morph Targets for the Face | |
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| Cheeks | |
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| Eyebrows | |
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| Eyes | |
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| Jaw | |
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| Mouth | |
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| Neck | |
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| Nose | |
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| Speech | |
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| Surfacing and Lighting Details | |
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| Surfacing Details | |
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| Various Image-Mapping Methods | |
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| Procedural Textures | |
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| Surface Factors | |
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| Surfacing a Human Character | |
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| Texturing the Eyes | |
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| The Cornea | |
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| The Eyeball | |
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| The Iris | |
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| The Lens | |
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| Texturing the Body | |
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| Texturing the Face | |
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| UV-Mapping a Face in Sections | |
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| UV-Mapping an Entire Face | |
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| Using a Texture Guide | |
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| Working with a 3-D Paint Program | |
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| Lighting the Human Model | |
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| Types of Lights | |
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| Ambient | |
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| Key Light | |
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| Fill Light | |
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| Rim or Back Light | |
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| Kicker Light | |
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| Top Light | |
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| Special Lights | |
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| Bounce Lights | |
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| Contact Lights | |
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| Gobos or Cucaloris Lights | |
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| Fundamentals of Human Animation | |
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| Some Animation Pointers | |
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| Animating in Stages | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Dialogue Essentials | |
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| Ways of Making Them Talk | |
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| Using an Exposure Sheet | |
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| Importing Audio into the Animation Program | |
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| Importing Video into the Animation Program | |
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| Completing the Dialogue | |
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| Storyboarding | |
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| Rotoscoping | |
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| The Graph Editor | |
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| Cleaning Up an Animation with the Graph Editor | |
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| Animating Within the Graph Editor | |
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| Using the Graph Editor for Cycling Actions | |
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| Walking | |
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| Running | |
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| Human Animation Principles | |
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| The 12 Principles of Animation | |
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| Squash and Stretch (Weight and Recoil) | |
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| Methods for Creating Squash and Stretch | |
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| Soft Body Dynamics | |
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| Manual Adjustments | |
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| Anticipation | |
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| Staging | |
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| Straight-Ahead versus Pose-to-Pose Action | |
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| Follow-through and Overlapping action | |
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| Slow In and Slow Out | |
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| Arcs | |
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| Secondary Actions | |
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| Timing | |
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| Exaggeration | |
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| Solid Drawing | |
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| Appeal | |
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| The Elements of Animation | |
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| Pacing and Impact | |
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| Action Reaction | |
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| Rhythm and Lines of Action | |
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| Paths of Action | |
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| Spatial Relationships | |
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| Accents | |
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| Cycles | |
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| Postures | |
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| The Take | |
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| Emotions | |
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| Balance/Imbalance | |
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| Weight, Mass, and Gravity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Lesson Plans | |
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| Animation 1 Lesson Plans | |
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| Animation 2 Lesson Plans | |
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| Animation 3 Lesson Plans | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |