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The animator's survival kit / Richard Williams.

By: Williams, Richard, 1933-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2009Edition: Expanded ed.Description: x, 382 pages : illustrations (some colour), ports. ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780571238347 ; 0571238347.Subject(s): Animation (Cinematography) | Drawing -- TechniqueDDC classification: 778.5347 | 778.5347 WILL
Contents:
Why this book? -- Drawing in time -- Time to draw -- It's all in the timing and the spacing -- Lesson 1 -- Advancing backwards to 1940 -- More on spacing -- Walks -- Runs, jumps and skips -- Flexibility -- Weight -- Anticipation -- Takes and accents -- Timing, staggers, wave and whip -- Dialogue -- Acting -- Animal action -- Directing -- Review -- The enlarged edition.
Summary: The Academy Award-winning artist draws on his master instruction classes to demonstrate essential techniques required of animators of any skill level or method, in an updated edition that provides expanded coverage of such topics as animal gaits and live action.
List(s) this item appears in: MTU Kerry New Books Semester 1 2025/2026
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 778.5347 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available CIT Module MMED 6020 - Core reading. 00115964
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 778.5347 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00229630
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 778.5347 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out MTU Kerry module ANIM61007 - Recommended Reading 13/10/2026 38888000958524
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This year is the twenty fifth anniversary of this landmark, essential guide for all practitioners and fans of animation.

Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today. During his more than fifty years in the business, Richard Williams was one of the true innovators, and served as the link between the golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes.

In this book, based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator - from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz - needs.

Using hundreds of drawings, Williams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students and fans.

This new expanded edition includes more on animal action, invention and realism with sophisticated animation examples

Previous ed.: 2001.

A manual of methods, principles and formulas for classical, computer, games, stop motion and internet animators.--Cover.

CCAD's expanded edition doesn't include a DVD.

Why this book? -- Drawing in time -- Time to draw -- It's all in the timing and the spacing -- Lesson 1 -- Advancing backwards to 1940 -- More on spacing -- Walks -- Runs, jumps and skips -- Flexibility -- Weight -- Anticipation -- Takes and accents -- Timing, staggers, wave and whip -- Dialogue -- Acting -- Animal action -- Directing -- Review -- The enlarged edition.

The Academy Award-winning artist draws on his master instruction classes to demonstrate essential techniques required of animators of any skill level or method, in an updated edition that provides expanded coverage of such topics as animal gaits and live action.

CIT Module MMED 6020 - Core reading.

MTU Kerry module ANIM61007 - Recommended reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS8032 - Recommended reading.

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Library Journal Review

The definitive manual on animation, this title needs to be in every animation collection. Williams is a renowned animator, and his book covers everything from the basics to the most sophisticated techniques. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Richard Williams (1933-2019) was the legendary Director of Animation and designer of the new characters for Who Framed Roger Rabbit , for which he won two Academy Awards, including a Special Achievement Award. In 1995 he started giving the Richard Williams Animation Masterclass for professionals and students in London, Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Sydney, Hong Kong, France and Denmark. This Masterclass was subsequently published as The Animator's Survival Kit in 2001 and became an international best-seller.