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Synopsis
Inside Interactive Digital 3D Actors, readers will find turnkey tutorials that detail all the steps required to model, animate, and deploy realistic 3D characters using LifeForms and Nemo. And this book is for everyone-for beginners with no knowledge of programming or code, as well as for professionals who want to use these new products in order to speed development and lower costs. Each tutorial can be followed using either application, evaluation versions of which are provided on the accompanying CD. An extensive index lets readers find the information they need quickly, and a companion Web site featuring 350 additional tutorials lets them keep on learning, even after they've mastered all the material in the book.
Key Features
* Covers two powerful and accessible animation applications-LifeForms and Nemo-in a manner that will appeal to amateurs and professionals alike
* Through a series of detailed tutorials, teaches readers to perform key modeling and animation tasks using the tools provided by these applications
* Covers closely related topics such as building settings and broadcasting complete animations
* Filled with color illustrations and accompanied by a CD containing three-month evaluation versions of both software titles and all the files required by the tutorials
* Via a companion Web site, provides over 350 additional tutorials on 3D modeling, 3D animation, and character animation
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About the Author
Professor at New York University in the graduate studies department of Interactive Telecommunications; consultant; award-winning 3D artist.
From the Back Cover
The good news? You no longer need a programming degree or enormous bank account to build and animate sophisticated 3D characters-modeling and animation software has never been friendlier or more affordable.
Until now, the bad news has been the scarcity of the information required to take full advantage of the awesome power of today's more accessible programs. Thankfully, here's the book that remedies this. Inside, you'll find nearly two dozen step-by-step tutorials covering key character animation techniques. Focusing on interactivity, behaviors, and environmental cohesiveness, all these tutorials have been specially designed to let you teach yourself using the application of your choice.
Whatever your character animation aims, Creating Interactive 3D Actors and Their Worlds is the key to gaining the technical proficiency that will help your creativity flourish.
Features
- Devoted to the growing number of tools that let you achieve sophisticated results using drag-and-drop code modules.
- Easily accessible to beginners but filled with valuable information for more experienced animators.
- Helps you teach yourself to build and populate Web-based virtual environments, assign tasks to actors, develop and test interactivity, implement artificial intelligence, and carry out real-time 3D rendering.
- Covers development of human-like behaviors, interactivity between characters and virtual cameras.
- Open to a wide range of Web-based animation uses: games, architectural and medical applications, real-time visualization, scientific research, story telling, virtual reality, and more.
- Includes numerous full-color illustrations.
- Includes tutorials with Macromedia's Director 3D 8.5
On the CD
The enclosed CD features full-featured, time-limited copies of three of today's most popular modeling/animation programs: Life Forms 3.9 (Mac and PC), Virtools 2.0 (PC), and Deep Paint3 D (PC). You also get all the files relating to the book's 22 tutorials-including 3D models, textures, behaviors, and motion files-plus links to a rich selection of software and user resources on the Web. Included are textures from Marlin Studios.
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