Moving innovation : a history of computer animation / Tom Sito.

Author/creator Sito, Tom, 1956-
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Description362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Film and television at the dawn of the digital revolution -- Analog dreams : bohemians, beatniks, and the Whitneys -- Spook work : the government and the military -- Academia -- Xerox PARC and corporate culture -- Hackers -- Nolan Bushnell and the games people play -- To dream the impossible dream : the New York Institute of Technology, 1974-1986 -- Motion picture visual effects and Tron -- Bob Abel, Whitney-Demos, and the eighties : the wild west of CG -- Motion capture : the uncanny hybrid -- The cartoon animation industry -- Pixar -- The conquest of Hollywood.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
LCCN 2012038048
ISBN9780262019095 (hardcover)
ISBN0262019094 (hardcover)