02825nam 22006613 450 991048286780332120240111174026.03-030-74227-X(CKB)5590000000474431(MiAaPQ)EBC6633243(Au-PeEL)EBL6633243(OCoLC)1256236339(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70770(EXLCZ)99559000000047443120210901d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAnimating Unpredictable Effects Nonlinearity in Hollywood's R&d ComplexSpringer Nature2021Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,2021.©2021.1 online resource (210 pages)Palgrave Animation3-030-74226-1 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.Palgrave AnimationAnimated filmsbicsscFilm, TV & radiobicsscFilm theory & criticismbicsscAnimationFilm/TV IndustryFilm TheoryFilm and Television IndustryVisual EffectsLive-Action CinemaEconomicsMechanical ControlSocio-PoliticalEngineeringOpen AccessAnimated filmsPerforming artsFilm history, theory & criticismAnimated filmsFilm, TV & radioFilm theory & criticism777.709Gowanlock Jordan994605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910482867803321Animating Unpredictable Effects2277684UNINA