DXARTS 442 Win08 Syllabus

Birn, Jeremy. Digital Lighting and Rendering. New Riders, 2000.
Brinkmann, Ron. The Art and Science of Digital Compositing. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
Demers, Owen. Digital Texturing and Lighting. New Riders, 2001.
Driemeyer, Th. Rendering with Mental Ray Vol. 1 -2. Second edition, Springer, 2001
Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, Computer Graphics Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Jensen, Henrik Wann. Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping. AK Peters, 2001.
Kelly, Doug. Digital Compositing in Depth. Scottsdale, AZ: Coriolis, 2000.
Paolini, Marco. Shake 3 Professional Compositing and Special Effects. Peachpit Press, 2004.
Ratner, Peter. 3-D Human Modeling and Animation. Second edition, Wiley, 2003.
Riddell, Danny and Britt, Andrew. Maya Visual Quickstart Guide. Peachpit Press, 2001.
Shreiner, Dave et. al. OpenGL Programming Guide. Fourth edition, Addison Wesley, 2004.
Strothotte, Thomas and Schlechtweg, Stefan, Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
Sybex, Character Rigging and Animation. Learning Maya 5 series, Alias, 2003.
Sybex, Dynamics. Learning Maya 5 series, Alias, 2003.
Sybex, Rendering. Learning Maya 5 series, Alias, 2003.
Unix in a Nutshell. O'Reilly and Associates.

Crista Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Art@Science, 1998.
Der Derian, James. Virtuous War, Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network. Westview Press, 2001.
Grau, Oliver. Virtual Art from Illusion to Immersion. MIT Press, 2003.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. MIT Press, 2001.
Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck. MIT Press, 1997.
Sobchack, Vivian. Meta Morphing. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Stephen Todd and William Latham, Evolutionary Art and Computers

Stephen Wilson art and tech links - good categories are Virtual Art, Rapid Prototyping, Computer Media
International Databank for Virtual Art (german primarily)
Mind into Matter - 3D Prototyping exhibition
Char Davies - immersive breath-controlled VR experiences
Donna Cox - UIC VR
Jeffery Shaw - VR environments
John Mccormack - 3D artificial life
Johnathan Dady - construction drawings
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Margaret Watson - Liquid Meditiation VR
Maurice Benayoun - World Skin VR interactive photomontage concerning war
Special Treatment - VR pseudo-reconstruction of Auschwitz II/Birkenau, Poland
Kennith Huff - Abstract sculptural stills
Kenneth Huff's Siggraph Artist's statement
Stephen Larsen's homepage - Visual poetry in physical tension
Kent Oberheu - design and composition, often abstract
Platige Image - makers of award winning independant animation Cathedral
Terry Calen - Northwest native working primarily with abstracts.
Terry Calen's Siggraph Artist's statement
Annika Erixan - Swedish artist. CG projects, many based on reactions and experience with Chernobyl
Masa Innakage - "Abstract Realism"
Francois Rimasson - French artist. Classic painterly realism.
Eugene Tulchin - Photo and cg with a cubist and surrealist twist
Cubatron - large 3D light cube for Burning Man
4D Art
Tania Lopez Winkler and Martin Lutyens - Second Skin: an emergent architecture
Gary Day - Siggraph Artist's statement

Animation Magazine - the online arm of the print magazine.
Animation World Network - where animation professionals go to look for work and get the scoop on what's happening.
Women in Animation - organisation devoted to women's role in the animation - men very welcome to join.
Abstract Animation
2D animation principles applied to 3D - John Lasseter's paper concerning animation techniques.
Spicy Cricket Animation - an independant site with some really nice tips for animation techique