Timing for Animation
40th Anniversary Edition
Timing for Animation: Your Ultimate Guide to Breathing Life into Your Animation
Are you an aspiring animator looking to bring your digital creations to life? Look no further than Timing for Animation, the ultimate guide to perfecting your timing, physics, and animation skills.
With vibrant illustrations and clear directions, this fully revised and updated edition explores the fundamentals of timing and animation techniques. Whether you’re a novice or an expert in animation, this book provides simple, no-nonsense instruction on key techniques like stretch and squash, animated cycles, overlapping, and anticipation.
Learn how to time weight, mood, and power with tried-and-tested methods that help make or break an animation. Discover how animated scenes should be arranged in relation to each other for maximum dramatic effect. You’ll also find modern examples and techniques that explore digital production timing, 2D/3D digital storyboarding, After Effects software use for interactive games and television programs.
Timing for Animation is written by renowned animators Harold Whitaker (BAFTA-nominated), John Halas (“The father of British animation”), and Tom Sito (Professor of Animation at USC). With over 40 years of experience between them producing more than 2,000 films including legendary Animal Farm (1954), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) , The Lion King (1994) among others. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn from some of the most outstanding animation artists today.
Key Features:
- Fully revised and updated with modern examples and techniques
- Explores the fundamentals of timing, physics, and animation
- Perfect for the animation novice or expert
- Simple instructions on key techniques like stretch & squash cycles
- Tried-and-tested methods on timing weight/mood/power
