Character Animation: 2D Skills for Better 3D, Second Edition

"Character Animation: 2D Skills for Better 3D, Second Edition" by Steve Roberts
Elsevier’s Science & Technology | 2007 | ISBN: 0080488455, 0240520548 | 298 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Remarkable book that actually makes animation easy to understand.
This book is the culmination of almost 10 years of teaching drawn animation techniques to 3D computer animators.

• Readers will achieve improved 3D animation with a practical understanding of foundational animation skills
• Theory is balanced with practical exercises in drawn and 3D animation.


Contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgements
chapter 1 introduction to 2D-animation working practice
chapter 2 matter and the animation of inanimate objects
chapter 3 the construction of a simple character, its articulation and balance
chapter 4 timing, anticipation, overshoot, follow-through and overlapping action with an animated character
chapter 5 human walks and runs
chapter 6 animal walks and runs
chapter 7 animation of fish and snakes
chapter 8 animation of birds
chapter 9 animation of acting – body language
chapter 10 animation of acting – facial expressions
chapter 11 animation of acting – twoor more characters
chapter 12 lip-sync
index

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