Software, animation and the moving image
Subtitle: what's in the box?
By: Aylish Wood
Series: Palgrave pivot; Palgrave pivot
Publisher: Springer; Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781137448842
Subjects: Digital media; Computer animation; Computer graphics
Description: "Software, Animation and the Moving Image brings a unique perspective to the study of computer-generated animation by placing interviews undertaken with animators alongside an analysis of the user interface of animation software. Locating software at the centre allows Wood to develop a novel framework for considering computer-generated images in visual effects, animations, games and data visualizations. The idea of software can be intimidating, but approaching computer-generated animation via software need not rely on prior knowledge about programming or any particular animation software. The methodology developed in this book takes the user interface of software to be meaningful because it is culturally legible. The primary case study of this project is the computer animation software, Autodesk Maya. Interviews with animators provide a tangible way into software, and throughout these are allied with Wood's analysis of the spatial organizations of the user interface. Informed by the digital contours of software protocols, this study brings greater definition to something that remains implicit in many discussions of CG animation: more-than-representational space that reveals an origin in digital rather than physical space."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-121) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- -- 1.; title: Getting to Know Software: a Study of Autodesk Maya -- -- 2.; title: Software and the Moving Image: Back to the Screen --; title: Conclusion.