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The Animator's Survival Kit

The Animator's Survival Kit
Your Price: $51.95 CDN
Author: Richard Williams
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 382
Pub. Date: 2012
Edition: 2nd
ISBN-10: 086547897x
ISBN-13: 9780865478978

About the Book:

From the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? comes the definitive how-to book on animation.

This is the one book every animator should have on their desk – whether you work in film, computer graphics or video game animation. Richard Williams was the pre-eminent figure in motion picture animation, and he has forged a reputation as an outstanding teacher as well as a top practitioner. In recent years, the Academy Award for animation effects has been virtually guaranteed to go to a student of Richard Williams, whether the movie in question is Toy Story or Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

The Animator's Survival Kit is based on master-classes Richard Williams gave to professional and would-be animators around the world over the years. Companies such as Industrial Light and Magic, Disney, and Dreamworks sent their animators to study at Richard Williams' feet as he is generally regarded as the link between the Golden Age of Disney animation and the new-style computer animation exemplified by Toy Story.

What people say:

"Williams is miles ahead of anyone in the world of animation." — New York Times

About the Author:

Richard Williams (1933-2019) was a Canadian-born British animator, voice actor, and writer, best known as the Director of Animation and designer of the new characters for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for which he won two Academy Awards including a Special Achievement Award. Born in Toronto he moved to the UK in the 1950s and also worked on two of the Pink Panther films and Casino Royale. He won three US Academy Awards, three British Academy Awards, and an Emmy among 246 international awards. In 1990 he was voted by his peers as The Animator's Animator, and in 1995 he started giving the Richard Williams Animation Masterclass for professionals and students worldwide in London, Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Sydney, Hong Kong, France and Denmark. During his lengthy career, he also wrote the celebrated instructional book, The Animator's Survival Kit.