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The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards and serving as the link between Disney's golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation exemplified by Toy Story.

Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication in passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn could push the medium in new directions. In this book, based on his sold-out master classes in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator--from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz --needs. Urging his readers to "invent but be believable," he illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that will become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students, and fans.

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"Williams is miles ahead of anyone in the world of animation."--The New York Times

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Richard Williams has won more than 250 international awards for his animation. He currently lives in Wales.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; 2nd edition (January 7, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 342 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571202284
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571202287
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.48 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.53 x 0.95 x 11.02 inches

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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 Masterclasses for professionals and students worldwide in London, Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Sydney, Hong Kong, France and Denmark.He lives with his family in Wales and works as an independent film-maker.

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Shantae

My son loves this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2022

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Best book ever my son animation is way better because of this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2022

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I bought this book to teach myself, then again as a present!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2022

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Nice book, super fast shipping!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2022

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This book is a good read or makes a great gift for anyone interested in the craft

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 12, 2022

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I got this book for my animation class last fall, I learned the essentials and mastered the basic principals of animation. And got into my animation program! This book is a great starting point to build on. Read, practice and do!

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Good book for fans and animators alike!

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Fantastic book, I love seeing behind the scenes into the world of animation. The stories Richard Williams has to tell are all interesting, and the advice he has is solid. I was surprised by some of the one star reviews, which stated that the book was full of smut, (it's not, but if you expected the guy who's most famous for being in charge of things like Jessica Rabbit to not draw women, I don't know what to tell you) or that Williams keeps advocating art college, (he doesn't, he just tells what you will need to learn) and that this book is only useful for hand animation. (which as you might've guessed, it's not. It tells you the principles of animation which are used no matter what medium you animate in) This book is a wonderful addition to any animation fans bookshelf, and is a treasure to any real animator.

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Tania

More so for the intermediate artist.

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This book is more intermediate artist. It has excellent step by step illustrations but I think it's a little harder for a beginner

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Kris the Artist

Amazing depth, revealing all the secrets, wisdom mixed with wit. Fascinating

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I teach University Figure Drawing and was looking for clarity on how an animator really thinks.
I found a treasure trove of history, personal narratives from the artist's soul, mixed with step by step instructions on how it all worked. This guy is amazing. I could not put this down.
If you are really focused on learning how to move the figure, and analyze movement, this is for you. If you are new at this, take beginning drawing first, and figure drawing first. This is not a quick 'easy' book for beginners, but for a more seasoned artist. What a huge gift to share a lifetime of wisdom.

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Boshy

Amazing for both 2D and 3D animators

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I have recently started doing 3D animations, and there is a lot of content out there but this book is timeless. Even though it's focused on 2D (more or less cartoon style animations), the lessons learned here are timeless and can easily apply to both 2D and 3D mediums.

It significantly improved my animation skills and how I approach animations, and I'm only half way through it so I expect it's going to help me out even more by the time it's finished.

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Really Useful!

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I ordered this in the hopes it would help me to fine tune my existing (but limited) skills of creating stop motion animations. I have to say this book is extremely thorough in the breakdown of movement creations, how to create a "character" through animation tweaks, how to use different perspectives to achieve different affects... I could go on there is so much information and really nice sketches/diagrams to help with understanding. Solid advice throughout from the author. Book arrived in very good condition.

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The best book

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I'd managed to finish half of the book already. I highly recommended this book. No matter if you are, animator, motion graphic designer, illustrator, hobbyist or change your career. This is the book that you'll need.

I'd graduated from fine arts and I'd know nothing about animation.

This book might take a while to learn and adjust, but I have always kept re-read them. I got to learn from the basics, like storyboarding, animatics and background art. There is free animation software you can learn from either in Blender, Storyboarder, OpenToonz, Pencil2D etc.

Keep learning, imply your knowledge and get serious!

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Ash

A wonderfully presented and beautifully concise manual that's a joy to read

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I've 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 wasn't able to easily visualise a way to make my character movements more 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 can't 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 haven't found a simpler way than reading this book.

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Brilliant book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 17, 2022

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Absolutely amazing resource, one of the best books for animation out there. So much so amazing that if you are wishing to study animation at a degree level, I recommend whole-heartedly picking it up. Most of the foundations of an animation course will be based on this book and it follows the basic principles as well as more complex bits.
Packed with information and well-worth your pennies.

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