A book/CD-ROM featuring hundreds of step-by-step tutorials and some 400 color images. Part I covers 3D texture painting techniques, and Part II covers image maps. Part III shows how to create textures for industrial and science fiction applications, and Part IV covers specialty textures. The CD-ROM contains 3D human and creature models, templates for image mapping, and texture maps. For 3D animators, illustrators, and other Photoshop users. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Bryce is the software for developing photorealistic environments, and Bryce 4 f/x and design shows you the program's tricks. Learn from the masters as a dozen computer graphics and animation professionals share their secrets for creating spectacular effects and stunning scenes in Bryce. Envelop your worlds in clouds, haze, and fog with Sky Presets. Create mountains, canyons, and myriad organic and mechanical objects with the Terrain Editor. Create new materials and apply them in your scenes via the Materials Lab and the Deep Texture Editor. Add diversity to your Bryce worlds by importing files from LightWave, Wavefront, 3D Studio MAX, and other 3D formats. No other book on the market offers you as much as Bryce 4 f/x and design. Book jacket.

Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have been marveled at by millions, this is the first investigation of their broader cultural reception. Moving from an exploration of nineteenth-century popular science and magic to the Hollywood science fiction cinema of our time, Special Effects examines the history, advancements, and connoisseurship of special effects, asking what makes certain types of cinematic effects special, why this matters, and for whom. Michele Pierson shows how popular science magazines, genre filmzines, and computer lifestyle magazines have articulated an aesthetic criticism of this emerging art form and have helped shape how these hugely popular on-screen technological wonders have been viewed by moviegoers.

Featuring a 32-page Color Studio that illustrates how projects will appear when completed, this volume discusses the latest upgrades to Illustrator 8, which is used by more than one million graphics designers worldwide. The CD-ROM contains popular third-party plug-ins, all the files needed to complete the exercises in the book, and royalty-free images and demos.

The author's movie graphics and animation credits include "Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Honey I Blew Up the Kids, " and "Exorcist III: Legion." He brings insider's knowledge to this book/CD set, showing in a step-by-step format how to create advanced special effects. The CD includes all of the MAX scene files, Material Editor settings, Material Libraries, image file lists (IFLs), and more.

Flash 3 is the up-and-coming design tool for animation and is currently supported by Disney, NBC, Microsoft, IBM, and Netscape. Showing step-by-step how to apply transparency, create morphing effects, add interactivity and sound, and animate graphics for the Web, this title includes a CD-ROM demo of Flash 3 and a collection of clip art.