TY - BOOK AU - Gowanlock,Jordan ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Animating Unpredictable Effects: Nonlinearity in Hollywood’s R&D Complex T2 - Palgrave Animation, SN - 9783030742270 AV - NC1765-1766 U1 - 791.4334 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Animated films KW - Motion picture industry KW - Television broadcasting KW - Motion pictures KW - Animation KW - Film and Television Industry KW - Film Theory N1 - Introduction: Defining Nonlinear Animation -- Chapter 1: Simulation and R&D: Knowing and Making -- Chapter 2: Hollywood’s R&D Complex -- Chapter 3: Engineering Moving Images: “Tech dev” meets “look dev” -- Chapter 4: Animating Management -- Chapter 5: Catastrophe, Chaos, and Perfect Storms -- Conclusion: Engineering Movies. 210; Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74227-0 ER -