Acknowledgments

I have taught animation at the University of Colorado for many years, and I have had the pleasure of teaching computing, engineering, film, and art students. I have learned a tremendous amount from them and I am still excited every time I enter the classroom.

A few of the models in this book were not made by me. The gold chair in Figures 1.18, 1.19 and 1.26 to 1.28 is adapted from a chair taken from a “country kitchen” scene sold by Daz3D.com, which offers a powerful human figure animation application that is popular among sophisticated hobbyists. The windows in Figures 6.60 to 6.62 are adapted from windows that are sold by suplugins.com, which markets a fabulous renderer and component content system for SketchUp. The human characters ...

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