The Animatorn's Survival Kit by Richard E. Williams

The Animatorn's Survival Kit Reviews

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  user-M3ZK6K

  The book arrived without damage, it is heavy book and so useful for artists who want to begin to learn animation from zero, I saw a video about the book before buy it, Im so excited to begin learn animation for add new skill on my art career.
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  Omaw

  الكتاب مهم لكل من يريد أن يتعلم كيفية رسم الحركة، سواء رسومات ثابتة أو رسومات متحركة (أنيميشن) ،وسواء رسومات ثنائية الأبعاد أو ثلاثية.
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  Larry B

  Some love this book, Others hate it. Depends on your thinking style. Those that are able to use some left brain (logic) thinking will love the book.Throughout the book Richard shares his personal experiences as an artist starting out working with other great animators and passes on what these folks taught him when he was learning.It is a book of formulas (sort of). He explains a lot on timing and spacing, Walk cycles, Movement, etc. Fully illustrated with the cell markers (traditional start, end, passing positions and inbetweening) marks.You may love page after page of what if we as he moves from boring poses to add dynamic poses for maximum effect.I appreciate his teaching style:1. Building a base knowledge of animation (timing and spacing)2. Disects various walk, dance, run, movement of things (what makes movement work)3. Then explores how to improve or adds a What if we to build better action cycles (Tries getting people the ability to think how they can improve their future drawings).This book was written for 2d animation but concepts carry over to 3d. (using pop through to set key start end pass through middle keys).
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  Czapens

  The go to book for learning animation and for animation reference, great print quality, lots of information, and beautiful drawings. Get the Extended Edition, as that one has even information (about 382 pages), which is fantastic! Highly recommended!
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  une bretonne qui aime l'image

  Une référence et un must have pour qui sintéresse à lanimation. Vraiment super interessant
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  Ash

  Ive spent the better part of a year working on my first animation project with very little prior experience. Having always been fascinated with the process, working from my own ability has been a long but rewarding task but I finally hit a hard limit where I just wasnt able to easily visualise a way to make my character movements natural.This book is transformative to the point that I bought sticky tabs to mark important sections and have almost ran out nearly a quarter of the way through the book. It explains core concepts behind traditional animations and how to time them, but most importantly in my case it breaks down walk cycles and assorted character movements, the thought processes to use while visualising them and the methods of presenting them in an easy to read, often humourous and incredibly illuminating way.I cant gush about the presentation enough. It never weighs you down with jargon and the illustrations are divine and immediately informative. If you have any interest in improving your animation ability I just havent found a simpler way than reading this book.
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  Villodre

  Un reputado animador me recomendó este libro como uno de los imprescindibles, tanto en el sentido práctico como el teórico, para dedicarse a la animación. Si alguien desarrollaba cierta soltura en este campo sin conocer este libro, se daría de porrazos en la pared al verlo, porque desarrolla y resuelve los fundamentos necesarios para desenvolverse. Existe también una versión traducida (enlace) y el inglés empleado es muy conciso.La introducción es legendaria por establecer el punto de partida fudamental en el animador: la concentración (en el tuit 937615150579945473 puedes ver una recreación animada por un animador español, titulada «UNPLUG!») y no es la única vez que el autor insiste en la autodisciplina como base para estas tareas. Mientras, el libro consta principoalmente de una detalladísima exposición de técnicas y consejos profusamente ilustrados, o de lo contrario poco se aprendería. Está disponible en tapa dura, pero al ser un libro «de batalla», que estará muchas veces desplegado completamente en la mesa y sobre el que, por qué no, se pueden realizar apuntes e insertar bocetos, el de tapa blanda cumple sobradamente.En realidad, este volumen no necesita ninguna reseña: es el libro de animación más famoso de la industria y con el que se ha entrenado prácticamente la mitad de ella, si no son más. Si buscas más material, también me han recomendado efusivamente (aunque en un sentido más teórico y menos práctico) este de Ollie Johnston (enlace), el legendario animador de Disney.