Animation Books
Books we recommend for professional, student and keen amateur animators and enthusiasts. This category has two pages - link to next/previous page at the bottom of this one.
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Working Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Computer, Stop-motion, Games and Classical Animators (Applied Arts)Timing for AnimationThe Animation Book
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Working Manu...
by Richard Williams
£16.98
For serious animators and students. A step-by-step guide to 2D animation of drawn characters by a famous animator.		Timing for Animation
by Harold Whitaker

An excellent guide to timing, for serious animators.		The Animation Book
by Kit Laybourne
£11.04
The best survey of different animation techniques.
Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D AnimationThe Illusion of Life: Disney AnimationOut of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution
Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D...
by Peter Lord
£12.45
A very readable introduction to Aardman 3D stop-motion films and techniques.		The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
by Frank Thomas
£29.10
Wonderful value. Huge hardcover book full of rare images and detail.		Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the A...
by Richard Fleischer
£23.70
Chuck Amuck: the Life and Times of the Animated CartoonistAnimations of MortalityChuck Jones: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists)
Chuck Amuck: the Life and Times of the Anim...
by Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones's autobiography.		Animations of Mortality
by Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam's famous guide to his personal animation methods (as in Monty Python). Only available second-hand.		Chuck Jones: Conversations (Conversations w...
£18.69
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