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Literature for Studying Animation (lemmy.ml)
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This is a sticky post that I will update with all of the best animation books, guides, videos, etc. that I can find online.

Books

  • Title: The Animator's Survival Kit
  • Author: Richard E. Williams
  • Title: Figure Drawing for All it's Worth
  • Author: Andrew Loomis
  • Title: Drawing the Head and Hands
  • Author: Andrew Loomis
  • Title: Creative Illustration
  • Author: Andrew Loomis
  • Title: Constructive Anatomy
  • Author: George B. Bridgman
  • Title: FORCE
  • Author: Michael D. Mattesi
  • Title: Figure Drawing: Design and Invention
  • Author: Michael Hampton
  • Title: The Art of Animal Drawing
  • Author: Ken Hultgen
  • Title: Animal Anatomy for Artists
  • Author: Eliot Goldfinger
  • Title: Imaginative Realism
  • Author: James Gurney
  • Title: How to Draw
  • Author: Scott Robertson
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[โ€“] wolfteeth@lemmy.film 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hultgren's The Art of Animal Drawing is really good, nice to see it highlighted here.

I'd like to suggest a couple more books:

  • Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair: A great introductory text for character animation, with lots of examples. If someone came to me with some basic cartooning skills and said they wanted to learn animation, I'd point them here first.
  • Character Animation Crash Course by Eric Goldberg: Some overlap with Blair's book, but includes more production skills.
[โ€“] kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

Seconding Blair's book. It's essential!

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