Animation Books: The Animator's Survival Kit (9780571238330) By Richard Williams

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The Animator's Survival Kit

  • Title: The Animator's Survival Kit
  • Author: Richard Williams
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published Date: November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780571238330
  • Pages: 392
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Price:   United Kingdom   USA
The Book
  • A Must for every animator in computer graphics or video game animation
  • Based on master classes Richard Williams has been giving to professional and novice animators all over the world
  • He has trained animators from companies like Industrial Light and Magic, Disney, and Dreamworks
  • The author is regarded as the link between the golden age of Disney animation and the new-style computer animation
  • Richard Williams is an outstanding teacher and a top practitioner in this field
The Author

Richard Williams - Canadian animator, best known for serving as animation director on Disney and Amblin's. Famous works include Who Framed Roger Rabbit, What's New, Pussycat?, Light Brigade and Pink Panther films.

Inside the Book
  • Why this book
  • Drawing in time
  • Time to draw
  • Its all in the timing and the spacing
  • Advancing backwards to 1940
  • More on spacing; Walks
  • Runs, Jumps and Skips; Flexibility
  • Weight ; Anticipation
  • Takes and accents
  • Timing, staggers, wave and whip
  • Dialogue
  • Acting
  • Animal action
  • Directing
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