Multimedia Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Computer Animation
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Overview
"In Blue Sky: The Art of Computer Animation, Peter Weishar, professor of computer animation at New York University's celebrated Tisch School of the Arts, takes the reader to Blue Sky Studios to see how it's done. Blue Sky Studios, a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox, was founded in 1987 to pioneer photorealistic, high-resolution computer-generated character animation for the entertainment industry. In 1998, the studio won an Academy Award for its short film Bunny, and it has just completed its first animated feature, Ice Age. These two films exemplify very different visual styles, but both are extraordinary achievements in 3D computer animation." Using examples from Bunny and Ice Age, but also drawing on the studio's work for other feature films and television commercials, Weishar takes the reader step-by-step through the making of a computer-animated feature film.Editorials
Library Journal
Most people can conceptualize animation easily in the form of the flip cards we made as children or as the crude Claymation movements of Gumby. However, 3-D computer animation takes some explaining. According to Weishar (animation, NYU's Tisch Sch. of the Arts), it's the most revolutionary development in feature films since the introduction of color. The book goes behind the scenes at the cutting-edge, Academy Award-winning Blue Sky Studios and uses their recently released film Ice Age to illustrate computer modeling, rigging, texture mapping, and special effects. Weishar entertainingly details the technological wizardry used to create 3-D animation of everything from storms and smoke to fully realized film sets and woolly mammoths. Highly recommended. Literature Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.Book Details
Published
March 1, 2002
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Pages
86
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780810990692