Product Description: Over the past 15 years, 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios have revolutionized computer animation with some of the most beloved movies of all time, from their initial success with Ice Age in 2002 to hits like Robots, Rio, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, Epic, and the four Ice Age sequels...read more

Product Description: DISCOVER THE STUNNING ANIMATION BEHIND THE STAR-STUDDED HIT MOVIE RIO AND FORTHCOMING RIO 2! PRODUCED BY BLUE SKY, THE STUDIO BEHIND ICE AGE SERIES AND HORTON HEARS A WHO!A feast for the eyes, perfect for people interested in animation and art, with the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro!"Rio © 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation...read more

Product Description: Unique, believable characters that think, feel, and captivate your audience are ones that involve emotion, personality, and story. Successful animators balance all of these elements within a single character and narrative. With Acting and Performance for Animation, discover how to create dynamic, dramatic performances and believable character interaction for 2D and 3D animation and motion capture...read more

Product Description: Making an animation make take patience, but it's a lot of fun ... and easier than you think. Why not give it a go? This book gives you all the advice and encouragement you need to take your first steps in the world of animation.

Product Description: Create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story...read more

Product Description: Although some credit the environmental movement of the 1970s, with its profound impact on children’s television programs and movies, for paving the way for later eco-films, the history of environmental expression in animated film reaches much further back in American history, as That’s All Folks? makes clear...read more

Product Description: Ed Hooks' indispensable acting guidebook for animators has been fully updated and improved! Hooks uses basic acting theory to explain everything from character movement and facial expressions to interaction and scene construction...read more

Product Description: This handy guide is just that. It is small enough to handle and carry around easily, and is a must-have resource for everyone interested in animation history, theory and practice. The whole book is structured round 20 key events in animation history from Cave Art to the development of 3D computer-generated images...read more

This is an account of how scientific thinking has developed from the discovery of the musical scale by Pythagoras to the use today in research of genetically engineered mice. Thomas Levenson traces the history of science through the creation of both scientific and musical instruments: the organ, the still, scales, Stradivari's violins and cellos, computers, and synthesizers. What emerges is a portrait of science itself as an instrument, our single most powerful way of understanding the world. Yet perhaps the most important invention of modern science has been the power to countenance its own limitations, to find the point beyond which science can explain no more, to rediscover that science, like music, is an art.

Product Description: This book discusses various forms of animation around the world.

A behind-the-scenes look at the world of the three films presents character, set, and scene development art along with discussions of the movies' plots, characters, settings, and actors, and includes four punch-out cardboard coasters.