The Animation Book - Softcover

Laybourne, Kit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0517886022 ISBN 13: 9780517886021

Publisher: Crown Publications, 1998

Synopsis

The first edition of The Animation Book, published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion in computer technology has created a corresponding boom in animation. Using desktop hardware and software, animators can easily produce high-quality, high-artistry animation and mix the aesthetics of traditional cel animation with dazzling 3-D effects. Kit Laybourne's digital revision to The Animation Book brings you to the cutting edge of animation technology. Richly illustrated with frame-grabs, production stills, and diagrams, this volume shares Kit's infectious enthusiasm for the limitless possibilities of today's hybrid techniques, and it provides beginning animators with all the information they need to jump in and start their own animation projects. More advanced animators will find The Animation Book to be an invaluable resource with detailed descriptions of filmmaking gear, computer hardware and software, art supplies, plus Internet and other resources.

Using an innovative case-study approach, Kit deconstructs how a range of digital projects were carried out at some of today's hottest animation studios, including Wildbrain, Blue Sky, Protozoa, Fantome, Broderbund, Nicktoons, and Klasky Csupo. These step-by-step studies show how desktop animators can follow the same creative process in their own films.

About this title

About the Author

Kit Laybourne is a highly successful independent producer who has worked on such television series such as MTV's Emmy-winning animation seriesLiquid Television and Nickelodeon's Eureeka's Castle and Gullah Gullah Island. During 1995-96 academic year, he taught the Advanced Animation Seminar at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His full-time gig is Chief Creative Director at Oxygen, a new media company developing interactive content for the convergence of TV and computers. He is also Executive Producer ofHank the Cowdog' an animated feature film and TV series being developed by Nickelodeon.

Synopsis

The Animation Book reviews the fundamentals of animation, tells where to find equipment and supplies, sh ows how to use all the popular animation techniques and soft ware programmes and tells beginners and more advanced animat ors how to complete projects. '

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0517886022
• ISBN 13: 9780517886021
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448