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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: An amazingly in-depth overview of character design and beginning to advanced animation techniques. Though any artist can get something out of this book, it really is for serious students of animation.Pay no attention to that silly review from Tennessee. As the name "Nothingstudio" implies, perhaps the author is not a serious animation student.
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Summary: At the Children's Art House the book is in great demand.
Review: As a teacher of Children's Art I find that this book is in constant demand, wonderful art work is continally being produced.
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Summary: It's a great book for students in animation.
Review: I am a first year student for computer animation. This book has helped me a lot in my projects and I have learned some great techniques that I can now apply to other classes. If you are a student this is a must have book for your library!!!
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Summary: All I needed to know, except how to draw
Review: I can't think of a better place to learn how to translate drawing skills into animation. This book assumes you already know how to draw people (and animal characters), but don't know how to draw them in animated sequences. It mainly talks about traditional cel animation, but the techniques apply to other styles, from flip books to computer animation (though mainly 2D). The details of getting the animation drawings from art to film are outside the scope of the book, but lots of other books do a good job of explaining that. _Animation from Script to Screen_ by Shamus Culhane is a good book for that part of the process (and also covers _some_ of the same artistic ground this one does). Leaving out the technical details allows to book to cover a lot more about the important part: drawing animated characters.
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Summary: An excellent reference work for animators and students.
Review: I first found this book several years ago after reading the excellent Disney Animation- The Illusion of Life (Now called The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation) by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson. This book covers several topics that the Disney book doesn't, such as lip-syncing. An animation teacher at DeAnza College in Cupertino has made this book a requirement, and I understand why. Don't think of this book as the only instruction you will need to become an animator, but buy a copy of it so you can have helpful reminders about important animation techniques without having to flip through hundreds of pages. This book is an excellent companion to the Disney book.
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Summary: Preston Blair, cartoonist-- the world's proudest title
Review: I ran across Preston Blair's Advanced Animation in the Walter Foster "how-to" series many years ago. I'm not an animator, but the book was a great influence on my 30-year newspaper career. Every print cartoonist can learn from Blair-- especially the principles of "stretch & squash" and "follow-thru". I recommended the book to hundreds of beginning cartoonists and used "Advanced Animation" as a textbook in cartoon workshops at the Univ. of Washington, Western Wash. Univ. and Ohio State Univ. I also recommend Preston Blair highly on my present cartoon website.
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Summary: Preston Blair, cartoonist-- the world's proudest title
Review: I ran across Preston Blair's Advanced Animation in the Walter Foster "how-to" series many years ago. I'm not an animator, but the book was a great influence on my 30-year newspaper career. Every print cartoonist can learn from Blair-- especially the principles of "stretch & squash" and "follow-thru". I recommended the book to hundreds of beginning cartoonists and used "Advanced Animation" as a textbook in cartoon workshops at the Univ. of Washington, Western Wash. Univ. and Ohio State Univ. I also recommend Preston Blair highly on my present cartoon website.
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Summary: Cartoon Animation, Good, and then Not so good.
Review: I read this book, I figured it would be great. Well
I was kinda wrong. It was ok in some areas, like the study of the walk and run. But it didn't have enough on animation, the segments were very short and did not explain them very well. This is an "Ok" book, but it could of been better
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Summary: THE book for young cartoonists--
Review: I've been in or near the cartoon business for 50 years and Preston Blair's "Cartoon Animation" played a big role in my education. In fact, most of the professional cartoonists I've known or worked with had a copy of this book in their desks-- I just bought another copy (that makes about 30 in my lifetime-- I used it as a text book in cartoon workshops at the Univ, of Wash. and Ohio State Univ.) When studied as a text, this book teaches us how to bring characters to life, whether you are in the animation field or drawing for print media. The pages on "follow-through" and "stretch'n'squash" are the most important lessons a young cartoonist can learn--
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Summary: THE book for young cartoonists--
Review: I've been in or near the cartoon business for 50 years and Preston Blair's "Cartoon Animation" played a big role in my education. In fact, most of the professional cartoonists I've known or worked with had a copy of this book in their desks-- I just bought another copy (that makes about 30 in my lifetime-- I used it as a text book in cartoon workshops at the Univ, of Wash. and Ohio State Univ.) When studied as a text, this book teaches us how to bring characters to life, whether you are in the animation field or drawing for print media. The pages on "follow-through" and "stretch'n'squash" are the most important lessons a young cartoonist can learn--
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