Animating unpredictable effects : Nonlinearity in Hollywood’s R&D complex 1st ed.

Author

• Gowanlock, Jordan

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030742270

Series

Palgrave animation

Subject(s)

• COMPUTER ANIMATION
• MOTION PICTURES

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Abstract

Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media industries conducting more private R&D as Cold War federal funding began to wane in the late 1980s. In this context studios and media software companies took concepts used for studying and managing unpredictable systems like markets, weather, and fluids and turned them into tools for animation. Unpredictable Visual Effects theorizes how these animations are part of a paradigm of control evident across society, while at the same time exploring what they can teach us about the relationship between making and knowing.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 206 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction: Defining Nonlinear Animation
Chapter 1: Simulation and R & D: Knowing and Making
Chapter 2: Hollywood R & D Complex
Chapter 3: Engineering Moving Images: tech dev meets look dev
Chapter 4: Animating Management
Chapter 5: Catastrophe, Chaos, and Perfect Storms
Conclusion: Engineering Movies. 210

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