Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator

by Tony White

Just add talent!

Award-winning animator Tony White brings you the ultimate book for digital animation. Here you will find the classic knowledge of many legendary techniques revealed, paired with information relevant to today's capable, state-of-the-art technologies.

White leaves nothing out. What contemporary digital animators most need to know can be found between this book's covers - from conceptions to creation and through the many stages of the production pipeline to distribution. This book is intended to serve as your one-stop how-to animation guide. Whether you're new to animation or a very experienced digital animator, here you'll find fundamentals, key classical techniques, and professional advice that will strengthen your work and well-roundedness as an animator.

Speaking from experience, White presents time-honored secrets of professional animaton with a warm, masterly, and knowledgeable approach that has evolved from over 30 years as an award-winning animator/director.

The book's enclosed CD-Rom presents classic moments from animation's history through White's personal homage to traditional drawn animation, "Endangered Species." Using movie clips and still images from the film, White shares the 'making of' journal of the film, detailing each step, with scene-by-scene descriptions, technique by technique. Look for the repetitive stress disorder guide on the CD-Rom, called, "Mega-hurts." Watch the many movie clips for insights into the versatility that a traditional, pencil-drawn approach to animaton can offer.

Genres: Art

499 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2006

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

[Dean · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently found this book at a thrift store, and as a budding student of animation, I couldn't pass it up. From a technological standpoint, the book is now somewhat dated (the references to 56k dial-up modems say it all), but the lessons are timeless. The basic principles and techniques of animation have not changed since they were pioneered over a hundred years ago. That's why this book is a valuable part of the library of any student of animation. White gives a wonderful overview of those techniques, as well as an overview of basic film making techniques, in order to help understand what makes animation live and seem real. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the wonderful art form that is animation, particularly traditional animation.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

A collection of observation and brain gasses mixed with predictions coming from shallow understanding. Page after page about how there are no investors for mid length animation movie, or how there will always be a market in television for animation. How does that relate to Classical Techniques? What has the pencil to do with the classification of television animation?

[Ola Salém · Rating 5 out of 5]

tony white said " this book is dedicated to all those selfless pencils who sacrificed everything in the pursuit of the animated dream "

what more do you need for your start as a star then? : )

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an awesome book. Good for a beginner wanting to learn about the basic processes of animation. Probably also good for non-beginners too.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

talk about art in a way that you want to learn more,