The Animator's Workbook: Step-By-Step Techniques of Drawn Animation

by Tony White

The Animator's Workbook offers a complete course on the principles and techniques of drawn animation. Stressing that animation is a subtle and exacting art form which breathes life into inanimate drawings, Tony White, an award-winning animator, covers every aspect of the process. He provides technical information and explains in easy-to-follow text and step-by-step illustrations, how to capture movement, expression, and emotion. He shows you how to convncingly animate birds and animals and explores special effects - wind, water, fire, and solid objects - that can add realism, drama, and atmosphere to animation.

This book takes the mystery out of the animation process and provides sound, reliable guidance and information. Topics

Content
The Process of Animation
The Animator's Toolkit
Inbetweening
Head Turns
Walks
Runs
Realistic Touches
Technical Information
Exaggerated Action
The Animal Kingdom
Dialogue
Animated Effects
Backgrounds

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Reference, Design

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form, apprenticing to the late greats... Richard Williams, Ken Harris and Art Babbit. Tony ran his own highly successful and respected animation studio in London for 20 years and has taught animation techniques to countless students in the USA for a further 15. In more recent times Tony has additionally worked as an astrological profiler, helping students and others to know themselves better.

Reviews

[Nina Harp · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so informational from start to finish. Provides alot of great instruction for those interested in hand drawn animation. He makes the technical side such as timing and syncing extremely easy to understand and not quite so daunting. Invaluable resource on dialogue as well, complete with lip charts (my favorite part).

[Hansi Berlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is exactly what I was looking for, and then some.

[Abby Goldsmith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Timeless advice with examples.

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[Regina Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was a bit creepy looking one....