Sketching for Animation: Developing Ideas, Characters and Layouts in Your Sketchbook (Required Reading Range) - Softcover

Peter Parr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474221440 ISBN 13: 9781474221443

Publisher: Fairchild Books, 2016

Synopsis

Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of examples, exercises and tips from an army of professional animators to help you develop essential sketching, technical drawing and ideation techniques. With interviews and in-depth case studies from some of today's leading animators, including Bill Plympton, Glen Keane, Tori Davis and John Canemaker, this is a unique guide to turning your sketchbook - the world's cheapest, most portable pre-visualisation tool - into your own personal animation armory.

About this title

Review:

From novice to master in one volume! The depth and breadth of subjects are invaluable to an animator! --Kathryn McKelvey, Lecturer Motion Graphics and Animation Design, University of Northumbria, UK

It covers everything in animation you need to know by connecting it to your sketchbook. --Mario Menjivar, The School of Visual Arts, USA

The book fulfills many functions: whilst it serves as a drawing/painting instruction book and includes exercises in many key techniques; it also inspires through its use of carefully chosen examples. Yet in demonstrating the application of these basic fine-art principles to animation it effortlessly crosses the boundary between disciplines that are too often kept apart. Kathy Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in Animation and Visual Effects, University of Falmouth, UK A great primer on how to get the most out of sketching as it relates to animation. --Ben Ridgway, San Francisco State University, USA

About the Author:

Peter Parr, Reader in Animation (Rtd) and MA Supervisor for The Arts University at Bournemouth (AUB), UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1474221440
• ISBN 13: 9781474221443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352