CHAPTER 3

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Animation Principles

Animators face many difficulties in the creation of their art—difficulties that are not restricted to simply overcoming the technical challenges they face or the practical issues of managing a production. These challenges may indeed be considerable, as are the creative and conceptual issues of original productions. The difficulties animators face extend to the manipulation of models and objects, pixels, or drawings in their effort to interpret and replicate all kinds of movement.

A Little History

From a very early point in the history of animation, some practitioners began to analyze movement and started to ...

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