Book description
Just add talent!Award-winning animator Tony White brings you the ultimate book for digital animation. Here you will find the classic knowledge of many legendary techniques revealed, paired with information relevant to today's capable, state-of-the-art technologies.
White leaves nothing out. What contemporary digital animators most need to know can be found between this book's covers - from conceptions to creation and through the many stages of the production pipeline to distribution. This book is intended to serve as your one-stop how-to animation guide. Whether you're new to animation or a very experienced digital animator, here you'll find fundamentals, key classical techniques, and professional advice that will strengthen your work and well-roundedness as an animator.
Speaking from experience, White presents time-honored secrets of professional animaton with a warm, masterly, and knowledgeable approach that has evolved from over 30 years as an award-winning animator/director.
The book's enclosed downloadable resources presents classic moments from animation's history through White's personal homage to traditional drawn animation, "Endangered Species." Using movie clips and still images from the film, White shares the 'making of' journal of the film, detailing each step, with scene-by-scene descriptions, technique by technique. Look for the repetitive stress disorder guide on the downloadable resources, called, "Mega-hurts." Watch the many movie clips for insights into the versatility that a traditional, pencil-drawn approach to animaton can offer.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Development
- 2 Character Design
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3 Project Financing
- Animation Markets
- Scheduling and Budgeting
- Investment, Marketing, and Distribution Possibilities
- Short and Independent Film Developing
- 4 Rules of Filmmaking
- 5 Soundtrack Recording and Editing
- 6 Storyboarding and Animatics
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7 Digital Desktop Production
- Stages of Animation Production
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Production Team and Workflow
- Director (2D and 3D)
- Producer (2D and 3D)
- Production Manager (2D and 3D)
- Character Modeler (3D)
- Production Designer (2D and 3D)
- Animator (2D and 3D)
- Assistant Animator (2D)
- Inbetweener (2D)
- Clean-Up Artist (2D)
- Environmental Modeler (3D)
- Background Artist (2D)
- Checker (2D)
- Scanner/Rostrum Cameraman (2D)
- Inker (2D)
- Colorist (2D)
- Texturer (3D)
- Lighting Artist (3D)
- Compositor (2D and 3D)
- Sound Editor (2D/3D)
- Project Management
- 8 Principles of Animation
- 9 Animating Step by Step
- 10 2D Animation Overview
- 11 2D Animation Basics
- 12 Finessing 2D Animation
- 13 2D Vector Animation
- 14 The Paperless Animation Studio
- 15 3D Overview
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16 Creating 3D Movement
- Blocking Out
- Key Poses
- Inbetweens
- Fine Tuning
- Timing, Timelines, and F-Curves
- Constant Testing
- Traditional Principles of Movement
- The Value of Caricature vs. Motion Capture
- Sliders and Lip Sync
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“Endangered Species”
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Scene 70
- v-01: Blocking In
- v-02: Add the Ups on Each Passing Position
- v-03: Foot Adjusts
- v-04: Increased Up on Passing Position
- v-05: Foot Tidy Up
- v-06: Side-to-Side Sway
- v-07: Rotation on Body
- v-08: Blocked-In Arm Action
- v-09: Left Arm Bend
- v-10: Increased Body Action and Start Head Turn
- v-11: Right Arm to Match Left
- v-12: Lighting Adjust and Final Render
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Scene 71
- v-01: Blocking Out Positions
- v-02: Right Arm Blocking Out
- v-03: Body Adjust
- v-04: Left Arm Blocking Adjustments
- v-05: Body Adjust
- v-06: Right Forearm Adjust
- v-07: Left Forearm Adjust
- v-08: Hands Adjust
- v-09: Right Hand Fine Tune
- v-10: Left Hand Fine Tune
- v-11: Left Fingers Fine Tune
- v-12: Right Fingers Fine Tune
- v-13: Left Hand Adjust
- v-14: Balance Hand Actions
- v-15: Lighting Adjust and Final Render
- In Conclusion
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Scene 70
- A Oh, I Almost Forgot …
- B Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Animation from Pencils to Pixels
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136144219
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