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– Well, actually, I got the first edition, but the second edition is what’s on Amazon now. \u00a0This book was in Animation Mentor’s “recommended books” section, and just flipping through it it looks like it will have some helpful tips.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0325007055\")
– I’m not really sure exactly what this is about (besides animated “acting” of course) but it looked interesting.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=037570423X\")
– Someone mentioned this book in the comments of this blog. I forgot to look for Mamet’s book on directing though. Anyway, this book is very short. So I got it. Looks interesting. It’s just on story writing in general, I think, so could be interesting since I’ve always got screenplay and novel ideas floating around in my head.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1858943655\")
– This is definitely just a scan-through book with lots of pictures in which animators make a few points about the creation of some of their short animations.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0240805003\")
– This was also recommended by Animation Mentor. It’s obviously about cinematography. It looks like its full of great and interesting film-making stuff. I’d like to read it cover to cover, though I don’t think I’ll have time, especially since I need to focus on actual animation. But it looks like it will definitely be interesting to at least flip through.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1897177534\")
– Here’s another one I’d like to read cover to cover if I had more time, which I don’t, so I’ll just flip through it. It’s just about how to use Maya. I think I’ve got an OK handle on the animation side of things, at least the basics of it, but modeling, lighting, rendering, etc. are all still kind of beyond me. Though I don’t necessarily need to learn those things for Animation Mentor, I still think they’d be useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAs I said, they’ve got some other books I’d like to check out in the future, but I’ll look through those for the next few weeks and should definitely learn some things.<\/p>\n
Some of those books make me want to subscribe to Netflix (or Blockbuster) so I can have access to a lot of movies (both animated and non-animated) just to study film in general. It’s very tempting, but I’ll save my money (and time) for now. Maybe as I get closer to finishing Animation Mentor…<\/p>\n
Lastly, I also checked out a book from the local library called The Talent Code<\/a> I guess that’s pretty much it today, just wanted to blather about books I got from libraries! Hope it was interesting! If not, too bad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So yesterday I made the long journey back to George Mason University to use their library. \u00a0The same girl was working there as when I worked there years ago. \u00a0I’m not sure if she recognized me or not, but if she did she didn’t say anything. \u00a0Then again, neither did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[220,18],"tags":[248,219,253,252,250,251,238,246,249,247],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-aB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=055380684X\")
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