

This book will cover everything you will need to know about animation. In this expanded edition, he expands upon and illustrates more difficult areas of animation, such as animal action and gaits and the correct use of live action, to help animators push the medium in new directions. Richard Williams Animator’s Survival Kit If you haven’t done so already, you should pick up a copy of Richard Williams Animator’s Survival Kit. He illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system. 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.

Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication in passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators. During his nearly fifty 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 bythe films from Pixar. The definitive working manual on animation, from the triple Academy Award winning Director of Animation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today- and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams.

