North Metropolitan TAFE: Reusable content: Animation & Games Design

The Animator's Survival Kit (2009) During his more than 40 years in the business, Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators and serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes. In this book, based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator needs.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) In 2075, the Moon is no longer a penal colony. But it is still a prison...Life isn't easy for the political dissidents and convicts who live in the scattered colonies that make up lunar civilisation. Everything is regulated strictly, efficiently and cheaply by a central supercomputer, HOLMES IV.

The Pattern on the Stone (1998) Hillis proceeds from an outline of basic logic to clear descriptions of programming languages, algorithms, and memory. He then takes readers in simple steps up to the most exciting developments in computing today quantum computing, parallel computing, neural networks, and self-organizing systems.

Schrödinger's Cat (2011) Chordelia, straddling two of the realities proposed in Everett's Many Worlds Theory of Quantum Physics, has no idea how distorted the line is between choice and fate. As her lives begin to crumble, so does Chorie's heart and mind. When Dr. Penny, a man with disturbing, murky, hypnotic eyes offers to rid her of the life that's causing so much pain, she must decide if she is willing to sacrifice the chance to be with her dying child for the chance to save her marriage and experience happiness.

The Monolith Alice discovers her diary and begins to read the tale of a lost love and revenge that begins in the factories of New York during the depression and shows the creation of a monster bent on revenge for the slaying of a good honest man.

Blade Runner Volume 1 When a rich industrialist's wife and young daughter go missing, seemingly the victims of a Replicant kidnapping, Blade Runner Ash is called in to rescue them before they end up on a slab or worse.

Masked: Anomalies Injured during a mission in the Caucasus, Sergeant Frank Braffort returns to Paris after six years abroad. He discovers a changed city, one ruled by Prefect Beauregard.

Kingsman: the Red Diamond The Red Diamond is a brand new Eggsy adventure as he follows in hismentor's footsteps, but still rough-around-the-edges for a Kingsman agent.

Amber Blake Amber Blake is a top recruit at a covert agency deadset on ending human slavery in all of its forms--and eliminating the criminals behind it.

Aquaman/Green Arrow - Deep Target A shadowy organization known only as Scorpio has resurfaced. While looting the past for artifacts and treasures, they've somehow altered the timeline and only Aquaman and Green Arrow can fix it!

Opening Fire Cursed with immortality,Andromache of Scythia and her comrades-in-arms ply their trade for those who can find-and afford-their services.

Storming Paradise It's 1945. Europe lies in ruins, the Nazi war machine defeated. Now, America's only option to end the war is Operation Olympus - the invasion of Japan!