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The Animator's Survival Kit [Paperback]

Richard E. Williams (Author)
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Publication Date: 5 Nov 2009 | ISBN-10: 0571238343 | ISBN-13: 978-0571238347 | Edition: Revised Edition

Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today . During his more than 40 years in the business, Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators, and serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes.

In this book, based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator - from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz - needs.

Usisng hundreds of drawings, Wiliams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animatiion for professionals, students and fans.

This new Expanded edition includes more on animal action, invention and realism with sophisticated animation examples

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  • Paperback: 392 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; Revised Edition edition (5 Nov 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571238343
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571238347
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 2.6 x 27.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Williams is miles ahead of anyone in the world of animation."--"The New York Times"

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Richard Williams is best known as the Director of Animation and designer of the new characters for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for which he won two Academy Awards, including a Special Achievement Award.Canadian-born Williams has won three US Academy Awards, three British Academy Awards, and an Emmy among 246 international awards - starting with his first film The Little Island in 1958.Williams has also animated title sequences for Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, What's New Pussycat, Casino Royale and linking sequences for The Charge of the Light Brigade, as well as countless prize-winning commercials.In 1990 he was voted by his peers as 'The Animator's Animator', and in 1995 he started giving the Richard Williams Animation Masterclass for professionals and students worldwide.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for animators, be they classical or digital 6 Oct 2011
By Samuel Franks
Format:Paperback
I was given this book by my parents in preparation for an art course of six months. The amount of use this book saw as I flipped through it time and time, and time(!), again all but made it a calendar, chronicling my betterment as an animator over the six months of intense training and practice the course lasted.
This book helped me further my understanding of not only kinematic motion in general, but my understanding of specific anatomical tendencies and limb-movements inherent in all creatures.

Getting hooked on animation, I've now joined a three-year education to focus on the digital aspect of animation, and was on my first day of school given yet another copy - this time by the school (a highly reputable one I might add). Evidently, they thought it a sound investment to equip each and every student in the class with their own copy.

Needless to say I take a lot better care of book nr. two, but in no way are they behind my skill-level (nor will they ever be, I reckon).
They keep getting read, and they keep pouring out wisdom.

Truly, the defining word to describe this book, is "essential."
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book 14 Jan 2010
By Montsewell
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for my son who is studying Fine Arts and Animation. It arrived just in time to help him create his 10 seconds animation for academic purposes. He got an "excellent" mark and congratulations from his teacher. It has proved to be very useful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The essential book for animators 31 July 2010
By BooksForAnimators
Format:Paperback
Ask pretty much any animator which book they recommend for the beginning animator (or even an experienced one) and they will tell you Richard Williams, The Animator's Survival Kit. This enormous (340 pages and bigger than A4) book starts with the basics, the bouncing ball, and moves right through to complex walk and run cycles. Other books on animation technique may describe the basic walk cycle and then have a page or two describing variations but Richard Williams has no less than seventy five pages on the walk cycle alone. He goes into: the basic cycle, weight, tempo, how to add character and emotion and sneaks, amongst other things. Other topics covered by this book include perspective, runs and jumps, breaking down animation, weight and pressure, anticipation, timing, dialogue and animal action. The version I'm reviewing is the original edition where the animal action section is quite short. I believe that the "Expanded Edition" had more in this section, getting deeper into animal walks and runs.

While this book is written for 2D animators the techniques are applicable to 3D, stop motion or any other kind of animation. While the style of the drawings or the handwritten style of the text may not be to everybody's taste, I think they add a personal touch to the book. I'm a 3D animator and I refer to this book all the time, it's my animation bible you might say. He goes into so much detail on every aspect of animating a character, illustrating each point with sequences of images and diagrams, that you can't help but learn something new every time you even just flick through it.

If you're going to buy any book on animation, make sure it's this one!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful
I bought it for a friend and they were very happy with it. It gets 5 stars because of this.
Published 24 days ago by Stephen Nulty
4.0 out of 5 stars Animator's Survival Kit
This book is very interesting and informative. I liked the descriptions, colour and details. It gave me some good idea's.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Summery
This book is a lengthy read of over 350 pages it discuses the basics of animation and is a great edition to anyones library who is trying to get into the animation media.
Published 1 month ago by Luke Marchese
5.0 out of 5 stars great for students
being an animation student, this is a must buy, it goes over everything you could possibly need to know about animation and then some!! just a must have in my opinion
Published 1 month ago by thomas redondo
5.0 out of 5 stars Animator's Survival Kit - Softback
Bought for my son, who is studying animation at university. Very heavy book, one corner slightly bent in the post.Full of amazing tips and ideas/instructions. Highly recommended.
Published 1 month ago by Jay P
5.0 out of 5 stars a must have for (starting) animators
Lots and lots of practical and fun to do drawing exercises about movement, timing and all the in and outs of animation.
Published 1 month ago by Fabian de Boer
5.0 out of 5 stars Big Book. Nice Pictures.
mainly picture based so you could probably read it in a few minutes. The master animator's timings are really useful if you're developing your animation skills.
Published 3 months ago by games_joe
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE IT BUY IT THROW YOUR MONEY AT AMAZON
I LOVE THIS BOOK IT IS TEACHING ME SO MUCH THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I SUGGEST THIS BOOK TO ANY UPCOMING ANIMATOR ITS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for any budding animator
Great for any budding animator
A must have and crammed with great and sold knowledge from a master in the field
Published 3 months ago by Tamanya
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good if you're an animator
I am a self-taught animator and despite the fact that you should try to learn from a lot of places this is one of the most complete 'teacher' i've had so far. Read more
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