8- List of Textbooks and References:

a- Course Notes:

Obtained online from the course instructor.

b- Required Books (Textbooks):

Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques, by Alan Watt and Mark Watt.

c- Recommended Books:

• complete Maya Programming Volume I by David Gould.
• Extrude and Modeling, A Procedural Approach, edited by David S. Ebert. 
• Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis, by Michael F. Cohen and John R. Wallace. 
• An Introduction to Ray Tracing, by Andrew Glassner.

d- Periodicals, Web Sites, ..., etc.

http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?linked=1&part=newsletter&idx=J166&coll=portal&dl=ACM