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CaptainSpank
02-07-2007, 12:37 AM
Hi guys im all new and not so shiny to the board, im currently working on some uni work to do with 3d animation techniques and was wondering what good resources you guys reccomend for a novice. The sort of stuff im after is on 3d techniques like affine transformation, animation of non solid objects, displacement and replacement, that sort of stuff sort of quite theory based really and a bit dry in places. If theres any books or weblinks you know of they would be greatly appreciated. I took a quick look through the sticky and didnt notice any links for this sort of stuff there (though it could just me overlooking things as usual), though there was a lot of stuff i liked and will take a closer look at quite a resource.
Thanks again guys
sdyer23
02-07-2007, 09:01 AM
Captain,

I can tell you that I'm not very familiar with the techniques that you are looking to study but since you are looking at things that are more theory rather than application, I would perhaps look to academic research papers on the subject. You might want to check out the SIGGRAPH proceedings or you can find industry related conferences as well that may have the things you are looking for. These are just things off the top of my head. I hope this helps. :)

-Tux
CaptainSpank
02-07-2007, 10:54 AM
Thats great il give it a looksie thanks a lot much appreciated
:)
Geemge
02-09-2007, 03:33 AM
Are you talking about animating characters? If so, I highly recommend Richard Williams Animators Survival Guide..

There is a lot of tradition concepts to get down that Disney has declared the 12 principles of animation. Anyway, just look through some of them for a good idea and that book is gold.

Otherwise I'd say buy a particle effects book for animating deformation of rocks or whatever.

The animation book is only about 15 bucks too, so it's well worth it.
CaptainSpank
02-09-2007, 11:11 AM
Im going to be adoing a little character animation, but also animating other items, i went on amazon hunting for animation books to help my plight and came across the richard Williams book and every review i think was 5 star and ive heard it mentioned on here too so have oredred me a copy to hunt through hopefully it should arrive today or tomorrow :)
In the meantime i went and took advantage of my uni library and found a few books that had a few bits of inof in them, got a couple of those heavy duty boring theory books too as they seem to contain a lot of valuable info the only obstacle is getting my head around the information in there hehe.
Thanks again guys for the suggestions
looking forward to getting my mitts on this richard williams book :)
sdyer23
02-09-2007, 12:42 PM
Captain, The animator's survivor kit is a good book, but the other book you might want to look at as well is "the Illusion of Life" - this book comes straight from Disney and teaches the history and theory of all the princoiples of animation. Definately one to look at. Good luck to ya!

-Tux
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