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Author Allen, Kevin Lee, author, illustrator

Title Vectorworks for entertainment design : using vectorworks to design and document scenery, lighting, rigging, and audio visual systems / written and illustrated by Kevin Lee Allen
Edition Second edition
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 401 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Drafting principles and standards -- The vectorworks screen -- Document organization -- Vectorworks workspaces -- Your workstation -- Help files and resources -- Quick start -- Basic drawing and modeling -- Renderworks -- Vectorworks lighting -- Advanced modeling -- Object types, symbols, plug-In objects and styles -- Collaboration -- Measuring and modeling venues -- Lysistrata -- Scenery and sightlines -- Rigging -- Audio/Video Systems -- Designing the lighting -- Entertainment lighting -- Working with lightwright -- Documentation and publication -- Vectorworks cloud services
Summary "Vectorworks for Entertainment Design is the first book in the industry tailored for the entertainment professional. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated, covering the most current details of the Vectorworks software for scenery, lighting, sound, and rigging. With a focused look at the production process from ideation to development to documentation required for proper execution, the book encourages readers to better create their own processes and workflows through exercises that build on one another. This new edition introduces Braceworks, SubDivision modelling, and scripting using the Marionette tool, and covers new tools such as Video Camera, Deform Tool, Camera Match, Schematic Views, and Object Styles. Fully illustrated with step-by-step instructions, this volume contains inspirational and aspirational work from Broadway, Concerts, Regional Theatre, Dance, and Experiential Entertainment. Exploring both the technical how-to and the art of design, this book provides Theatre and Lighting Designers with the tools to learn about the application and use it professionally. Vectorworks for Entertainment Design also includes access to downloadable resources such as exercise files and images to accompany projects discussed within the book"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "A Focal Press Book" -- taken from front cover
Includes index
Kevin Lee Allen is an award-winning entertainment designer and experiential architect. Notable projects include work for Budweiser, Sony Pictures, CNN, a virtual interview with Benjamin Franklin, the Chase Bank Flagship Signage in Times Square, productions of Romeo and Juliet (both the ballet and play), All I Ask of You, and The Tempest. A long-time user of Vectorworks, he has written, taught, and lectured on the subject extensively
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2020)
SUBJECT VectorWorks. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005007634
VectorWorks fast
Subject Stage lighting.
Engineering design -- Data processing.
Computer-aided design.
Computer-Aided Design
stage lighting.
computer-aided designs (visual works)
computer-aided design (process)
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft
Computer-aided design
Engineering design -- Data processing
Stage lighting
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020010088
ISBN 9780429290671
0429290675
9781000095319
1000095312
9781000095364
1000095363
9781000095418
100009541X
9781315856124
1315856123