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The definitive working manual on animation, from the triple Academy Award winning Director of Animation of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today-- and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, 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.
Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication to passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn can push the medium in new directions.
In this book, based on his sold-out Animation Masterclasses in the United States and across Europe attended by animators from The Walt Disney Company, PIXAR, DreamWorks, Blue Sky and Warner Bros, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator-- from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz-- needs. Urging his readers to 'invent but be believable, ' he illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that will become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students, and fans.

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Why animate? Everyone knows it's a lot of hard work doing all those drawings and positions.

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Title The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
Author Richard Williams
Binding Hardback
Edition Third Edition
Pages 352
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Faber & Faber, London - New York
Publication date January 7, 2002
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780571212682 / 0571212689
Weight 4.11 lbs (1.86 kg)
Dimensions 11.22 x 9.7 x 1.08 in (28.50 x 24.64 x 2.74 cm)
Category Computers - Desktop Publishing
Library of Congress subjects Drawing - Technique, Animation (Cinematography)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003446095
Dewey Decimal Code 741.58

About the author

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 Masterclasses for professionals and students worldwide in London, Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Sydney, Hong Kong, France and Denmark.
He lives with his family in Wales and works as an independent film-maker.

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