Tony White’s latest book on how to animate films is thorough, detailed and just one of the best books out there on animation. From learning the core basics of animation, to learning how to do it at home with the right equipment and right mindset. Learn from the legendary animator Tony White… “How to Make Animated Films” is highly recommended!
TITLE: How to Make Animated Films
BY: Tony White
PUBLISHER: Focal Press
PAGE COUNT: 478
Become Tony White’s personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond.all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White’s Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. Includes hands-on Tutorials, demonstrations and final sample animations. . Whether you want to become a qualified animator of 2D, 3D, Flash or any other form of animation, Tony White’s foundations bring you closer to that goal. The DVD is invaluable, in that readers are not only taught principles and concepts in the book, they are able to see them demonstrated in action in the movies on the DVD.
*Look over the shoulder of award-winning Master Animator, Tony White, as he works at his animation lightbox. Watch, listen, experience as the author demonstrates everything you need to know.
*Tony White is a legendary animator with a strong following. His best-selling title: The Animator’s Workbook has 80,000 copies to date.
*For aspiring animators on their own – without backing or funding. Get the same results the Disney animators do with bare minimum technique and equipment.
*DVD offers a perfect audio/visual companion to the book with movies of the author at his drawing desk, creating art in front of our eyes – demonstrating difficult techniques like flipping, inbetweening and superimposition.
For anyone interested or curious on how films are animated, look no further as legendary animator has written one of the most complete, concise books on how-to-animate with “How to Make Animated Films” from Focal Press.
The book is educational and utilizes a lot of images to show the reader how things are animated. White’s “How to Make Animated Films” is a 10-step foundation teaching the core principles of movement in 2D or 3D animation and utilizes what he teaches at his production classes for DigiPen Institute of Technology in this book.
White breaks down each chapter as “Master Classes” and featured are:
- Masterclass 1: Animation Basics – A chapter about key positioning, breakdown positions, flipping, arcs, timing and space and more.
- Masterclass 2: The Bouncing Ball – A chapter about weight, mass and flexibility. Gravity, timing, mass, volume and more.
- Masterclass 3: Generic Walks – A chapter about the lower body, walk cycle, upper body and more.
- Masterclass 4: Personality Walks – A chapter that goes into the hip and shoulder rotation, double-bounce walk, rotation of the head, balance, timing, etc.
- Masterclass 5: Generic Runs – A chapter about running, head-on runs and more.
- Masterclass 6: Quadruped Walks – A chapter about front legs, rear legs, neck and head, tails, realistic quadruped movements and more.
- Masterclass 7: Weight – A chapter about using a rubber ball, ping-pong ball, bowling ball and comparing them.
- Masterclass 8: Anticipation – A chapter about the benefits of anticipation and more.
- Masterclass 9: Dialog – A chapter on body language, facial animation, lip synching and more.
- Masterclass 10: Final Project – A chapter on staggers, joints, eye blinks, eye brows, gravity and more.
The second part of the book deals with other aspects of animating film such as:
- Film Production 1: Exploring Ideas, Storytelling and Scriptwriting
- Film Production 2: Concept Art, Viz Dev and Camera Maps
- Film Production 3: Character Design
- Film Production 4: Thumbnails
- Film Production 5: Storyboards
- Film Production 6: Filmmaking Techniques
- Film Production 7: Audio Record
- Film Production 8: Animatic and Bacher Boards
- Film Production 9: Background and Environment Layouts
- Film Production 10: Color Script
- Film Production 11: Audio Breakdown
- Film Production 12: Block in Key Poses
- Film Production 13: Placement and Timing
- Film Production 14: Two-Dimensional In-Betweening
- Film Production 15: Rolling, Flipping and Pencil Testing
- Film Production 16: Clean-Up
- Film Production 17: Scanning
- Film Production 18: Background and Environments
- Film Production 19: Coloring
- Film Production 20: Compositing
- Film Production 21: Rendering
- Film Production 22: Final Edit
Needless to say, “How to Make Animated Films” is a very detailed book but White does a great well of explaining the details and along with those details you get examples. And in addition to the book, included is a DVD featuring lectures by Tony White (from the classroom) plus demos that are featured in the Masterclass chapters. From inbetweening to lectures on generic walks and personality walks, these are not several minute lectures, these lectures are 15-25 minutes long.
Many people may not have the chance to go to a professional school that teaches animation but fortunately Tony White does a great job in providing those interested in animation in learning the core basics of animation through this book.
If you are a person who wants to get into animating and wants to learn from one of the best, purchasing “How to Make Animated Films” by Tony White is an affordable way to do so. Detailed, educational and thorough, “How to Make Animated Films” is definitely recommended!