The animator's survival kit
By: Richard Williams
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780571238347; 9780571238330
Other titles: Animator's survival kit animated.
Description: The Academy Award-winning artist draws on his master instruction classes to demonstrate essential techniques required of animators of any skill level or method, in an updated edition that provides expanded coverage of such topics as animal gaits and live action.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2001.

"A manual of methods, principles and formulas for classical, computer, games, stop motion and internet animators."--Cover.

Title on accompanying DVD: The animator's survival kit animated.
Table of contents: title: Why this book?; title: Drawing in time; title: Time to draw; title: It's all in the timing and the spacing; title: Lesson 1; title: Advancing backwards to 1940; title: More on spacing; title: Walks; title: Runs, jumps and skips; title: Flexibility; title: Weight; title: Anticipation; title: Takes and accents; title: Timing, staggers, wave and whip; title: Dialogue; title: Acting; title: Animal action; title: Directing; title: Review; title: The enlarged edition.