Myles's Graphics IG presentation notes

3D modeling, 2D drawing

• Presentation slides (PDF, 163kB)
• Books
  • Digital Character Animation by George Maestri (1st edition)
  • Digital Character Animation 2, Volume I : Essential Techniques by George Maestri (the 2 refers to 2nd edition)
  • Digital Character Animation 2, Volume II: Advanced Techniques by George Maestri
  • The Animation : Master 2000 Handbook by Jeff Paries

    Books I haven't read that may be worth investigating

  • Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right by Jason Osipa
  • Animation:Master 2002: A Complete Guide (Graphics Series) by David W. Rogers
  • Lightwave 3D 8 Cartoon Character Creation, Volume 1 : Modeling & Texturing by Jonny Gorden
  • Lightwave 3D 8 Cartoon Character Creation, Volume 2 : Rigging & Animation by Jonny Gorden
  • Inspired 3D Modeling & Texture Mapping by Tom Capizzi
  • Inspired 3D Character Setup by Michael Ford, Alan Lehman
• Software links
  • OpenOffice Impress - used to create presentation

  • POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) - freeware, parametric modeling
  • Wings3D - freeware, 3D polygonal modeling with subdivision smoothing
  • trueSpace - version 3.2 is free (requires online registration), 3D polygonal and metaball (blob) modeling
  • HamaPatch - freeware, 3D spline modeling (English site)
  • JPatch - freeware, 3D spline modeling, Java-based

  • Animation:Master - commercial, 3D spline modeling

  • Moho - commercial (relatively inexpensive), 2D cartoon animation
  • Toon Boom Studio, Symphony - commercial, 2D cartoon animation
  • Macromedia Flash - commercial, 2D animation and programmable interactivity
  • KoolMoves - shareware, 2D animation and programmable interactivity
  • The TAB - commercial, 2D cartoon animation