Cracking animation /
Peter Lord & Brian Sibley ; foreword by Nick Park.
- New ed.
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.
- 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
The Aardman book of 3-D animation--Cover. Previous ed. published as: Creating 3-D animation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237), filmography (p. 236-237) and index.
The medium -- Basic needs : The camera ; The digital image and motion control ; A simple studio ; A complex studio ; The power of lighting -- Simple techniques : Simple clay animation ; Simple object animation ; Other animation techniques -- Models and modelmaking : Basic principles ; Making a sheep ; Gromit construction ; Wat construction ; Rex construction ; Preston -- Set design and making : Planning a set ; A straightforward set ; Matching sets to products ; A complex set ; Ingenuity and prop ; Special effects ; Advanced special effects -- Animation and performance : Movement ; Walk cycles ; Making movement believable ; Running and tumbling ; Action and reaction ; Special movement effects ; Expressions and gestures ; Speech and lip-sync -- CGI-computer generated imagery : Modelling figures and sets ; Rigging ; Animation ; Lighting and rendering -- Making a film : The role of the producer ; Thinking about a script ; Flash animation and the web ; Online games ; Creating a storyboard for Adam ; War story ; The Pearce sisters ; Morph ; Angry kid ; Creature comforts ; Shaun the sheep ; Timmy time ; Wallace and Gromit ; Chicken run ; Editing ; Sound and music -- A career in animation.