- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.; Reprint edition (2 Sep 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0823002292
- ISBN-13: 978-0823002290
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 20.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 480,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The Animator's Workbook" is the first definitive book on drawn animation techniques. This step-by-step guide features: the process of animationthe animator's toolkitinbetweeningheadturnswalksrunsrealistic touchestechnical informationexaggerated actionthe animal kingdomdialogueanimated effectsand backgrounds.
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The first step in learning about animation is to understand the procedures involved in making an animated film. Read the first page
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book opens by defining the various types of animation, including popular techniques that are used in some forms of animation. This serves as a useful guide to allow animators to explore and consider the various medias of the art form.
The secound half of the book discusses with excellent examples the the popular physics of animation. Most noticably character animation. It shows walks, runs head turns and more difficult exagerated motions. The Workbook is useful to both those who want to get started in animation and serves as a great refence guide for the basic body movements, a definate worthwhile buy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The beauty of this book is its simplicity. Tony White is a great, accomplished animator, yet he manages to explain the rudiments of animation clearly and concisely so that even a beginner can understand. Divided into several useful sections (inbetweening, head turns, walks, runs, etc.), the book can be read from beginning to end as a full animation course, or can be dipped into for reference. I bought the book after purchasing Preston Blair's "Cartoon Animation" and found White's far easier to understand. The Animator's Workbook allowed me to nail the all-important walk cycle that I had struggled with in Blair's book. This book was written before computers took hold of the industry, so there is no mention of them (unless there has been a revised edition), but the techniques found here are as valid for computer animators as they ever were for traditional animators.
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
The Big Four
10 Mar 1998
Format:Paperback
If you are an aspiring animator you have probably squeezed all you can out of Preston Blair. If "Illusion of Life" is too expensive or too heavy for you to lift, this is the book for you. One thing all three of these animation books have in common is they include pretty much everything you need to know about the fundamentals of animation. While all three books are excellent Tony White's may be the best balance of content and being a beautiful book to look at. The content contains the principals and industry insight you need to succeed in making a quality piece of animation. The book is fun to read and fun look at. The animation illustrations are very charming colorful and entertaining and reminds you of the reasons you became interested in animation in the first place. The flip animation in the corners of the pages are full color and really fun especially nice since the paper is the right thickness to give a good flip without the usual skip. This is one of the top books for you animator wannabees. If you can get your hands on the out of print Cawley/Korkis book "How to Create Animation" by Pioneer Press, and have these three others you will have every animation book for the aspiring animator you will ever need or likely want.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Best for Beginners - and Beyond
27 July 2000
Format:Paperback
Agreeing with all the great things previously said about this book, I can only add that "The Animator's Workbook" is the best book suited for artists just starting out in animation. It is thorough, practical and motivating, without being intimidating. If you know anybody - young or old - who wants to get into animation but does not know where to start, studying "The Animator's Workbook" is a great beginning.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Great for computer animators too
26 April 2001
Format:Paperback
I first stumbled upon this book when I was learning to do character animation with a 3D computer program. I found that I could learn the principles easily by doing the exercises in the book with my 3D software. Now I teach character animation, and I use Tony's section on the walk cycle to teach students how to do it in 3D. The book is clear and easy to understand, there are lots and lots of illustrations, and the price is great. If you want to learn character animation in 3D and you know little or nothing about it, this is THE book to get. It contains all the principles you'll find in higher-priced books on digital character animation.
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