TY - BOOK AU - Lord,Peter AU - Sibley,Brian AU - Lord,Peter ED - Aardman Animations (Firm) TI - Cracking animation SN - 0500289069 (pbk.) U1 - 741.58 AAR PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Thames & Hudson KW - Aardman Animations (Firm) KW - Animation (Cinematography) KW - History N1 - 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 ER -