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The Animation Bible: A Practical Guide to the Art of Animating from Flipbooks to Flash
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The Animation Bible: A Practical Guide to the Art of Animating from Flipbooks to Flash
by Maureen Furniss

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The Animation Bible is the first book any aspiring animator will want to own—and with increasingly affordable tools for digital animation and the vast forum of the Internet for free distribution, animation is becoming more popular than ever...
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Animation: The Whole Story
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Animation: The Whole Story
by Howard Beckerman

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Professional animator Howard Beckerman has drawn them all: Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, even Mickey Mouse. In Animation, he offers a road map to the complex art of making an animated feature. Vivid sketches, screen shots, and step-by-step illustrations show...
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Animation: The Mechanics of Motion
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Animation: The Mechanics of Motion
by Chris Webster

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Learn the key skills you need with this practical and inspirational guide to all the fundamental principles of animation. With extended pieces on timing, acting and technical aspects, Chris Webster has created the vital learning tool to help you get the...
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Creating 3-D Animation : the Aardman Book of Filmmaking (98 Edition)
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Creating 3-D Animation : the Aardman Book of Filmmaking (98 Edition)
by Peter Lord

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What do Wallace and Gromit, Godzilla, and Gumby have in common? They're all examples of 3-D animation. From Aardman Studios in Bristol, England, winner of three Academy Awards, comes a thorough book on the subject and one of the first to include complete...
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The Animator's Workbook
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The Animator's Workbook
by Tony White

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The Animator's Workbook offers a complete course on the principles and techniques of drawn animation. Stressing that animation is a subtle and exacting art from which breathes life into inanimate drawings, Tony White, an award-winning animator, covers...
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Creating 3-D Animation: The Aardman Book of Filmmaking
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Creating 3-D Animation: The Aardman Book of Filmmaking
by Peter Lord

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Creating 3-D Animation, originally published in 1998 and based on the work of Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman Animation, creators of the wildly popular Wallace and Gromit short films, has become required reading for animation courses around the world....
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Gardner's Guide to Writing and Producing Animation (Gardner's Guide)
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Gardner's Guide to Writing and Producing Animation (Gardner's Guide)
by Shannon Muir

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From the initial selection of an animation project to its final marketing materials, the art and business of animation production are illuminated in this step-by-step guide, which includes interviews with industry professionals about the place of their...
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Animation From Script To Screen
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Animation From Script To Screen
by Shamus Culhane

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Shamus Culhane, the animator who made the dwarfs in Snow White, achieves something few are able to: He makes it possible to learn a concrete skill from a book. Covering every aspect of film animation, from basic mechanics to giving creativity full play...
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Tezuka School of Animation: Volume 1, Learning the Basics
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Tezuka School of Animation: Volume 1, Learning the Basics
by Osamu Tezuka

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The work of artist Osamu Tezuka has been as influential in Japan as that of Walt Disney in the US. His most famous character, Astro Boy, guides the reader through this book on the fundamentals of animation. The focus is on mastering movement, timing, and...
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Character Animation 2D Skills for Be 2ND Edition
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Character Animation 2D Skills for Be 2ND Edition
by Steve Roberts

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Improve your character animation with a mastery of traditional principles and processes including weight and balance, timing, walks, birds, fish, snakes, four legged animals, acting and lip-synch. Traditional animation skills and techniques are presented...
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation
by Susannah Shaw

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To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You...
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Storytelling Through Animation (Charles River Media Graphics)
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Storytelling Through Animation (Charles River Media Graphics)
by Mike Wellins

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As an animator, it's difficult to watch movies or animated films without thinking about the directing quality or technical aspects of the production. But when that movie pulls you in and draws you to the characters and their plights, you really...
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Gardner's Guide to Animation Scriptwriting: The Writer's Road Map
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Gardner's Guide to Animation Scriptwriting: The Writer's Road Map
by Marilyn Webber

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"Gardner's Guide to Animation Scriptwriting" is the place to go for information on writing Saturday morning cartoons or animation short films. This book is user-friendly, with illustrated text that takes readers through the steps necessary to create a...
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All About Techniques in Drawing for Animation Production (06 Edition)
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All About Techniques in Drawing for Animation Production (06 Edition)
by Camara

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Titles in Barron's popular and growing "All About Techniques" series are written especially for advanced art students and experienced amateurs. They explain aspects of art theory, then provide step-by-step advice on methods for creating professional...
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Basics Animation #01: Scriptwriting
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Basics Animation #01: Scriptwriting
by Paul Wells

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The Lion King. Spirited Away. Wallace and Gromit. Toy Story 2. What makes these animated movies great? The stories they tell, and the ways those stories are told. Animation can go where no other filmmaking can, and great scriptwriting can take animation...
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Don Bluth's Art of Storyboard
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Don Bluth's Art of Storyboard
by Don Bluth

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This gorgeously illustrated book by the animator, artist, and director of The Secret of N.I.M.H. and All Dogs Go to Heaven describes in detail the technical and artistic processes involved in crafting storyboards, the visual blueprints of animated films....
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Don Bluth's Art of Animation Drawing
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Don Bluth's Art of Animation Drawing
by Don Bluth

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While its predecessor, Don Bluth's Art of Storyboard, described in detail the technical and creative processes involved in crafting the visual blueprints for animated films, Don Bluth's Art of Animation Drawing focuses on the process of designing...
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Cartoon Animation: The Collector's Series
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Cartoon Animation: The Collector's Series
by Preston Blair

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In this text, Preston Blair shares his knowledge to explain and demonstrate cartoon animation and his techniques. It describes how to create a character's shape, personality, features, mannerisms and movements, and how to construct dialogue and co...
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Prepare to Board!: Creating Story and Characters for Animation Features and Shorts
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Prepare to Board!: Creating Story and Characters for Animation Features and Shorts
by Nancy Beiman

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Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, this book explains the methods and techniques of animation preproduction with a focus on story development and character design. Story is the most important part of an...
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Christopher Hart's Animation Studio
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Christopher Hart's Animation Studio
by Christopher Hart

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Christopher Hart's Animation Studio is guides to the basics of animation; and cartooning....
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