TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Aylish
TI  - Software, animation and the moving image: what's in the box? 
T2  - Palgrave pivot
SN  - 1137448849
AV  - TR897.7 .W66 2015
U1  - 006.696 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Computer animation
KW  - Computer graphics
KW  - Digital media
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; 1; Getting to Know Software: a Study of Autodesk Maya --; 2; Software and the Moving Image: Back to the Screen --; Conclusion
N2  - "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
ER  -