Multimedia Books

Three years ago, my father gave me this book on Christmas Eve when I told him that at the age of 27 I was already for a career change. I was already a CAD-man and I wanted to do more then just industrial wire frames. I was ready to take my work to new levels and other worlds. Someone in the know suggested this book to him.

This book goes through everything a new comer to Computer Animation and world building needs to know when starting out: What to look for when buying a computer, how software packages stack up against each other, and how functions work.

I read this book that Christmas Day and agian the following weekend there after and have referred back to it ever since. It's one of my most treasured possessions, reminding me the enormous faith my father has in me. And, it's a nice resource...

This is a good book to get someone started and a refresher for 'old timers' like myself. This book in invaluable!

This is a pithy and well-presented little book for people familiar with traditional hand-drawn animation who are just starting to venture into the realm of computer animation. Beginning with useful reviews of the leading software packages, Griffin walks you in detail through all the main steps involved in 2D computer animation, from initial planning through to film output, without getting bogged down in program-specific details.

This is not a how-to manual. It doesn't teach any secrets or tricks of computer animation, but gives the animator an excellent understanding of the process from start to finish. The illustrations are well-chosen and enhance the text.

The only criticism is that the accompanying CD is not highly useful. It contains only 2 short sample animations, and the rest are computer program demos, most of which are available in newer versions on-line. A simple list of links would have sufficed and the CD left out to keep the price down.

If you're just venturing into 2D computer animation, this book is an excellent place to start.

This book will be very useful for everyone who going to work with mocap technology. I use it for teaching my students in Moscow University of Culture and Arts. Students like this book too, because this book is very intelligible!

The only thing better is to have Joe Torelli sit and teach my class in person. Easy to follow and understand, just what college students need. I recommend it to all my Broadcast Journalism students.

This is a really well done book, good, systematic, well thought out instruction. It methodically takes you through the complexities of this powerful application. It makes no assumptions about your knowledge and teaches in plain, easy-to-follow language, building one technique on another using a series of lessons. The material is presented logically, encouraging the student to explore, while still keeping a clear and consistent lesson plan to guide the learner from topic to topic.

After reading the Apple pro training series:Shake 3 traing book, it left me with a lot of un answered questions about what each individual control does in shake 3. This handbook fills in those gaps. Now I feel I know how to use shake more than ever. Detailed pictures, brief hints and tips, and thorough explainations of each node and control are what this book covers. I highly recomend this book for anybody who has already gone through the shake 3 traing book by peachpit press.

extremely helpful. it's a compilation of the discipline's latest innovations/researches. a must-have book for those involved in dsp audio applications in industry.

I HAVE BOUGTH SOME BOOKS ABOUT THIS TOPIC BUT THERE ARE ALOT INFORMATION THAT IS NOT NECESARY TO MY. I WANT TO HAVE A BOOK THAT ONLY GIVE MY A TIPS ABOUT THE TEST

Beginners confused by the terminology yet lured by the promise of downloading now have a simple, user-friendly manual to the entire idea and process: Steve Levine's The Art Of Downloading Music. A small, truly pocket-sized paperback covers all the basics: how does downloading work, what kind of sound quality can be expected from a download, how to transfer downloaded music from computer to cd, and how to use an iPod. A big 'plus' in The Art Of Downloading Music is the illustrations - charts and screen shots - plus the easy question-and-answer format which painlessly reveals answers.

I have collected some hundreds of children's picture books. And I straightly recommend this artist for her purest passion against expressing her naive esthetics into children's artbooks. Her artbooks give us the powerful beauty of clors desined in thieir simplisity. They encourage me to be creative mind in every scene in my daily life. It's sometimes a medicine in my life.