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title: "The Animation Book"
brand: "kit laybourne"
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# The Animation Book

**Brand:** kit laybourne
**Price:** C$4237
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Animation Book by kit laybourne
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## Description

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.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Dimensions | 18.64 x 2.9 x 23.16 cm |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Isbn 10 | 0517886022 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0517886021 |
| Item Weight | 816 g |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 448 pages |
| Publication Date | 22 Dec. 1998 |
| Publisher | Crown Publications |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Practical and handy
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 10 July 2014*

best guide book for animation students or independent animators.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow!!
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 9 April 2001*

This is a very practical book for those poor folk who have to make their own animation set-up from scratch at home, like me. It has just about every computer programme there is, and lots of the other older methods like Super 8 which is always a good emergency method for getting stuff seen quick and rough. Also, there is lots to inspire anyone starting out in animation; it says "Look at all the stuff you could do, it's limitless"

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a Book for the Begginers :(
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 2 January 2002*

I am just starting to dip my toe in the Animation pool and i bought this book and was COMPLEATLEY overwhelmed :)). I don't think this is the best thing to go with if you are a newbie. My best advice is to ask the people who have already made it.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation
- The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
- Your Career in Animation (2nd Edition): How to Survive and Thrive

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