Cracking Animation

Cracking AnimationFrom the creators of the wildly successful Wallace and Gromit films and Chicken Run, here is a practical guide to making your own 3 D (or stop action) animation, a practice whose robust presence in contemporary filmmaking continues strong. At the heart of the book is a guide to the process of 3 D animation today: a practical, fully illustrated, step by step description of how to create effective characters, a storyboard and sets, and then an entire

Against this backdrop of mystery and terror

Emma set in modern Asia-about a young woman's rise in the glitzy

• reverse age-related memory loss

Twins Kensy and Max Grey's lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London

our careers are governed by global forces

In their sudden deaths

Why we had to free those Less Thans

The Longevity Book offers an all-encompassing

he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power

and the prospect of the spectacle sends shockwaves rumbling through farm country as far as a day's wagon-ride away

And then I'll destroy it

A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling