The Animator Survival Kit Paperback

Timing, spacing and weight are the craft problems at the centre of Richard Williams's animation manual. Drawn from a long career and from what the author learned working beside veteran animators, the book teaches walks, runs, takes, anticipation, overlapping action and dialogue through thousands of hand-drawn diagrams rather than through theory. The instruction applies whether the work is done on paper or on a computer, and the frame-by-frame breakdowns are meant to be copied out and practised rather than simply read. This Faber and Faber paperback runs to 392 pages. What sets it apart: • Hand-drawn instructional diagrams on nearly every page • Frame-by-frame breakdowns of walks, runs and dialogue • Principles that transfer between hand-drawn and digital animation • A 392-page Faber and Faber paperback A working reference for animation students, illustrators and motion designers, published by Faber and Faber and stocked by Boipoka.