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The Animator's Survival Kit: Flexibility and Weight

(Richard Williams' Animation Shorts)
By Richard E. Williams
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The Animator's Survival Kit: Flexibility and Weight by Richard E. Williams offers essential insights for aspiring and professional animators interested in mastering the principles of movement and expression in animation. This volume focuses on achieving natural-looking flexibility and effectively conveying weight, providing valuable techniques to breathe life into animated characters. Packed with detailed illustrations and practical advice, it's an invaluable resource for enhancing animation skills.
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For those passionate about animation, this book offers invaluable insights into creating movement that is both fluid and believable. With a focus on flexibility and weight, it provides inspiration and guidance, helping both aspiring and experienced animators refine their craft.

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The Animator's Survival Kit: Flexibility and Weight

From Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.

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The Animator's Survival Kit is the essential tool for animators. However, sometimes you don't want to carry the hefty expanded edition around with you to your college or studio if you're working on just one aspect of it that day. The Animation Minis take some of the most essential chapters and make them available in smaller, lightweight versions that fit easily into a handbag or backpack. Easy to carry. Easy to study.

This Mini focuses on flexibility and weight. How do we loosen things up and get snap and vitality into our performance while keeping the figure stable and solid? The answer: successive breaking of joints to give flexibility.

In this mini, Williams stresses the importance of knowing where the weight is on every drawing. He demonstrates that the best way to show weight is to be aware of it, conscious of it, and think about it all the time—knowing where the weight is coming from, where it's travelling over, and where it's transferring to.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571358434

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 330g

Pages: 64

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction Richard E. Williams

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 Masterclass for professionals and students worldwide.

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