How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Masterclass on the Traditional Principles of Animation

One of the best books for starting with Animation and its Concepts including all the Principles in depth. Its really all about how to make movies from start to end till its distribution. All sort of tips and guidelines you get on what to concentrate and what to avoid. How to create stories, prepare for pre-production and move to production stage till post-production. It actually teaches about hand drawn animation which is extremely necessary if you really want to progress in today's digital 2D & 3D animation. If you can create animation just by hand, you can do it at best anywhere you like. Remember John Lasseter (the Director of Pixar Animation Studio)? He knew only hand drawn animation but so well that he could do it in the best way in 3D animation using 3D application packages that Ed Catmull had created. So buy this book and read it with all your interest if you really want to be an Animator. It has lots of useful exercises and a video tutorial CD too. Its totally worth it. :)

Great book Inspiring and learning book for animators

Delivered on time:), book is it great condition considering it was bought used and from a local Amazon shipping company. Overall I’m more than happy with this purchase!! I personally appreciate Tony White and his lessons, he makes his writing easy to comprehend for beginners mostly looking to do non-digital animation.

I've studied animation techniques from Tony White's two previous books, but this one is the best one yet from this master animator from England. He provides an "over the shoulder" view of animation techniques, and lets you look over his shoulder on how in-betweens are done, how generic walks are created, and so on, as if you are a journeyman learning from the master. He starts off with a 10 part foundation course, with exercises for each section, and moves the journeyman animator into more and more complex animation techniques. I've got a long way go to myself in terms of my animation skills but Tony White sure has helped me along. The accompanying DVD is also very good as you get to literally watch him draw in-betweens in traditional 2D animation style, with pencil and paper! Tony also provides some lecture material on doing walks, both generic walks and walks with personality. His teaching style seems so patient and nurturing, it must be wonderful to takes courses directly from him. This book provides the next best thing!

An absolute must have for all levels of animators. You will not regret buying this book. It has helped me better understand the required process of frame by frame animation be it for traditional 2D animation or Digital animation techniques.

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I bought this book to help me teach an Animation class for 9-12 year-olds, which I was unfamiliar with. (I had only experience with stop motion.) What I liked most about this book (and I didn't get a chance to read the whole book) was that in the first chapter, White explains all of the materials he uses and why, and debates/preferences about some materials. He even tells the reader what stores to find certain materials at, and links to online businesses. I felt the book on the whole was helpful, but this--for me--is what separated it from The Animator's Survival Kit (also a good book).