Product Description

Discusses the process of animation, describes the tools and materials used, and looks at head turns, walks, runs, exaggerated actions, and special effects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208284 in Books
• Published on: 1988-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent guide to help explore the realms of animation
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.

Well explained advice from a master animator
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.