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Focal Press publishes the best 3D, Animation and Gaming books covering Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, Adobe Flash, Digital Art, Game Design, Game Programming, Game Art, Drawing and more. Our books are written by creative experts for creative people.

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Focal Press Tradigital Books

Focal Press Tradigital Books

Focal Press is proud to add the recently published Tradigital 3ds Max and Tradigital Maya as well as the upcoming Tradigital Flash and Tradigital Ciname 4D to the Tradigital Book Series.  Tradigital Blender was the first book to truly bridge the gap between animating with a particular software tool, and applying the 12 principles of animation to your work. 

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Producing Animation, Second Edition

Producing Animation, Second Edition

By Catherine Winder, Zahra Dowlatabadi and Tracey Miller-Zarneke

Producing Animation is a comprehensive guide to the production industry - a complete guide to identifying, pitching, developing, and producing an animated show with detailed resources for production planning, budgeting, scheduling, tracking, delivering, marketing, and distribution.
3ds Max Modeling for Games: Volume II

3ds Max Modeling for Games: Volume II

By Andrew Gahan

Create stunning commercial-grade game art with these incredible modeling, texturing, lighting and renderingtechniques for the latest version of 3ds Max 20XX.Volume II presentsa new approach: covers comic-style art (a la Pixar)withnew tutorials,techniques, and galleries.

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How to Cheat in Maya 2012

How to Cheat in Maya 2012

By Eric Luhta, Kenny Roy

Finally a Maya book for animators! Maya is one of the top 2 software tools available today for animation with 600,000 registered users.Eric Luhta (professional animator) offerswalk-throughs of battle-tested essentialtechniques that will save you time and frustration. Revised for latest release of Maya,"How to Cheat in Maya"provides classic character animation techniques within a Maya framework.
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The Animator's Notebook

Tony White's Animator's Notebook PDF series offer something new: a LIVING book, where pages can be read like a book The Animator's Notebook Cover but they are not static like a book. They come to life with full animations that leap from the page with just a quick click of the mouse.

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