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 Gardner's Web Design Sketchbook. 7.5" X 9" size. 200 PP, $24.95 US. ISBN# 1-58965-009-3.

A drawing book for planning and organizing the design of Web pages. Planning a Website is a very involved and artistic undertaking. It requires the artist to create preliminary sketches of the overall design, negotiate a color scheme that consists of Web safe hues, and keep an account of what all the links are. Even more complex for designers is the process of optimizing the various components for display on the Web so that the end result is an appealing site and one that loads quickly. This sketchbook provides a template for Web Designers utilizing any of a wide range of Web applications.


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With over 196 pages of quality drawing stock, this book provides enough space to design at least two extremely elaborate Website's or numerous smaller sites. The choice is yours!

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Gardner's Great Animation Show. VHS 50 Minutes. HI-FI Stereo. Digitally Mastered, price $19.95.

Entertainment for the entire family, education for the student of animation-An inspiring collection of animation short films by students from some of the best Universities and Colleges in the United States and Canada. A unique demonstration of the talent of student animators. Gardner's Great Animation Show is journey into the skills employers of top studios like Pixar, Metrolight, and Industrial Light and Magic desire in a student's portfolio. Let these award-winning films entertain you and help you decide where to pursue a computer animation career.

Short animation from: Ohio State University, Tofu House Zil Lilas, Academy of Art College; Freeware by Alex Orrelle; The Poultry Paradox by Carlos Pedroza; Hello Dolly by Mariko Hoshi; Clock by Aaron Lim; Vancouver Film School; Shine by Kenneth Meyer; My Left Soc by Chad Moffit; Scoops by Goor Moshe; Ticked Off by Christina Roodenburg, Jay White, Gary Hughes, Derek Waters; Radius Transfer by Brooks Gordon; Ringling School of Art and Design; Rein Check by Erik Winquist; Still Life by Scott Curtin; Flux by Jamie DeRugter; School of Communication Arts; Fatal Error; NAD; Hunter Killer by Danny Wade; Pulp Smack by Patricia Blackburn; Never Moon by David Pawsey; VanArts; Boonga The Magnificent by Phil Chong; Stairs Not For Sitting by Gareth Earves; Hunter by Rahul Dadhulkar; Cogswell College; Psychic Weight Loss Adventures Of Luna and the Mithandril Pig; Savannah College of Art and Design; Hypnos by Nic College; George Mason University; Creative Titling by John Aarnio.

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 Gardner's Guide to Writing and Producing Animation
7.5" X 5.5", Trade Paper, 280 pages, $37.95US.
ISBN#  1-58965-029-8
Author: Dee LaDuke

Mapping a path for those wanting to break into the television industry, this sourcebook provides practical guidelines for writing a script, selling a pilot to networks, and producing episodes. A hands-on manual to working with writers, producers, directors, and actors, this book also provides industry interviews with experts currently working in television and provides solutions to common pitfalls and pratfalls with the business.

Dee LaDuke and Mark Alton Brown have worked in the television industry as writers and producers since 1992 on such shows as Designing Women and Girlfriends and for Nickelodeon.

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 Gardner's Guide to Writing and Producing for Television
7.5" X 5.5", Trade Paper, 288 pages, $34.95US.
ISBN#  1-58965-027-1
Author: Shannon Muir

From the initial selection of an animation project to its final marketing materials, the art and business of animation production are illuminated in this step-by-step guide, which includes interviews with industry professionals about the place of their work within the general production pipeline and profiles of commercial animation studios. Television specials, pilots, shorts, and independent features are among the projects covered, in addition to a discussion of career opportunities in the field and the creative partnership of artists and engineers.

Shannon Muir is an animation scriptwriter for the Japanese animated series Midnight Horror School; a production coordinator for Say it with Noddy, Invader Zim, and Extreme Ghostbusters; and a production assistant for Jumanji: The Animated Series. She is a staff writer for Work in Progress, the newsletter of Women in Animation. She lives in Los Angeles.



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