Character animation crash course! /
by Eric Goldberg.
- Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, c2008.
- xxii, 218 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Conception : Attitude poses -- Acting in animation: part 1. Getting started -- Acting in animation: part 2. Dialogue -- Character construction and design -- Drawing in animation -- Technique : The exposure sheet -- Layout and staging -- Timing -- Spacing -- Having a breakdown! -- Squash and stretch -- Overlapping action -- Weight, balance, mass and volume -- Properties of matter -- Facial expressions -- Lip-sync -- Animating shapes -- Flexible drawing for graphic characters -- Animating to music -- Gimmicks! -- Putting it all together : Approach to a scene -- Things for animators to do to make their lives (and everyone else's) easier! -- Is that all, folks?