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The Animator’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Animation
£28.20£35.10 (-20%)
First published in 2011. Enhance your animated features and shorts with this polished guide to channeling your vision and imagination from a former Disney animator and director. Learn how to become a strong visual storyteller through better use of color, volume, shape, shadow, and light – as well as discover how to tap into your imagination and refine your own personal vision. Francis Glebas, the director of Piglet’s Big Day, guides you through the animation design process in a way that only years of expertise can provide. Discover how to create unique worlds and compelling characters as well as the difference between real-world and cartoon physics as Francis breaks down animated scenes to show you how and why to layout your animation.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Routledge, 1st edition (24 Sept. 2012) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0240817249 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0240817248 |
| Dimensions | 27.43 x 2.29 x 21.34 cm |
by Elizabeth Hopkins
Brilliant book with the whole animation process – each chapter a progressive stage. Nice touch is the cell type drawings on the right ended of the page – flip the pages & you see the project animated!!! Bought for my daughter’s university course! Highly recommend this book to any animations students!!!!
by John from Ncl
A great guide to animation by someone who has been and is very successful in the industry. Francis Glebas created some animatics and an animation (included with the paperback version I bought) to go with this book. These illustrate and the book describes the steps needed by all – including beginners working on their own – to create a successful animation.
I like that the whole process is described from initial ideas right through to completion with music and special effects as part of the animation, and that the focus is on traditional drawn animation, but brought right up to date using animation programs on computers, with drawings and their layers created and stored within suitable software.
A great book that is completely on an equal footing with the other animation classics and will join them. But with the advantage that this is a guide for how an individual can create their own animations right now – with all the benefits of modern computers and the wisdom freely available of those who have gone before!
by C. Scott
I am looking to buy this book as part of my research into animation sound design for characters.
Any thoughts?
Also if there are any professional animators/sound designers out there, in the kindest way possible would you be able to fill out this short survey about animation sound for me. I am trying to collate as much info from the books i have bought as well as professionals currently working out there.
Would be really appreciated
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