The Animation Book

best guide book for animation students or independent animators.

This is a very practical book for those poor folk who have to make their own animation set-up from scratch at home, like me. It has just about every computer programme there is, and lots of the other older methods like Super 8 which is always a good emergency method for getting stuff seen quick and rough. Also, there is lots to inspire anyone starting out in animation; it says "Look at all the stuff you could do, it's limitless"

I am just starting to dip my toe in the Animation pool and i bought this book and was COMPLEATLEY overwhelmed :)). I don't think this is the best thing to go with if you are a newbie. My best advice is to ask the people who have already made it.

Does anyone know where to find equipment and supplies for this book also like Japanese Animation?

it was for my son, he did use it for few weks, but after that was not interested in it. example in the book were very poor. went in the bin.

This book is a bit dated but most of the info in it is timeless. As a former computer animator, I picked this up out of interest without any expectations. I found it an incredible guide to animation, as complete as you could hope in any book. The author covers all aspects of the art and gives a fairly good rundown of each technique. Its an overview book but a very, very good one.I highly recommend it.

We checked this out from our library and liked it so much, we decided to buy it. Great book for the price! Very informative:)

A great book that covers a number of animation techniques and greatas a refresher to the techniques I learned in school but hadn't used inquite some time.

This animation book is the food equivalent of Thanksgiving at a pot-luck, or a buffet. I can sample one bite of everything, end up so full I can't walk. The ingredients and all it's parts are a mystery, but I get to sample the end product. Anotherwords, this book will not teach you how to operate complicated software, such as Photoshop, but it will teach you what software you want to sample. Sort of like going to the video store and reading the captions, but not actually watching the movie, just get an idea for what movie you want to see. Anyway, I really like it and look forward to reading the whole thing. So far I have read chapter 1 and skipped to chapters 23 and 24(about software and hardware), then will return to chapter 2.

good book but obsolete in technology. The book tells you different methods of making animation besides traditional animation. One the materials they used aren't even on the market no more. Still, the contains a lot of education for alternative method for producing animation....