The Animator's Sketchbook will teach students of animation how to improve their work through observation and drawing. It will show readers how to access their inner animator. With over 60 different gesture and drawing exercises, this book enhances vision, analysis, understanding, and the core skills required to become a master animator. Filled with extensive practice pages, Tony White's Sketchbook, invites students to demonstrate what they learn. Each exercise is timed, so that the skills acquired, are optimized for efficiency and comprehension. The style and technique of the art produced will be entirely up to the reader, thus making no two sketchbooks alike.
Key Features
Provides readers with their own personal sketchbook, demonstrating classical art skills that are highly prized by studio employers
Readers will come away better visualizing form, gesture, pose and expression Includes 60 speed and gesture drawing exercises
Provides the perfect way for students of animation to improve their core skills
Perfect for animation instructors who can rely on this unique course workbook to take their students to new levels of classic visualizing expertise
Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author & educator. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on Pinocchio, Fantasia, etc.) and Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of The Animator's Survival Kit ). Tony is currently Senior Instructor for the AIE-Seattle/Seattle Schools District 'Skills Center' program and creator of online 2D animation content for AIE in Australia. Tony is passionately committed to seeing a return of innovative, top-draw traditional 2D animated filmmaking in the USA. To help realize this dream, Tony has launched the annual 'DRAWTASTIC' Festival of Drawing & animation in Seattle, as well as started work on his unique & personal movie project, 'CULPEPER'. Tony's best-selling animation books include: The Animator's Workbook ; Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators ; How To Make Animated Films , Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach and The Animator's Notebook .
Title: The Animator's Sketchbook: How to See, Interpret & Draw Like a Master Animator
Author: White, Tony
ISBN: 9781498774017
Binding:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Publication Date: 2016-08-10
Number of Pages: 328
Weight: 0.8167 kg
