Richard Williams Expanded Survival Kit
I usually don’t review books here on Spline Doctors, but since Richard was nice enough to do a great Spline Cast with us, I wanted to talk about his new Expanded Edition Animation Survival Kit. Most animation students have the first book. It has so many great tidbits of information. The new book looks to be twice as thick and has so much more info, its a must have for animation students and professionals. I have been paging through it and some of the stuff I really like are the example of animal action. Fellow animator Holger has some examples of the images on his blog… I’m not sure if its out yet, but when it does come out, its a great book to have.
-Andrew
I wonder if they should have given another name for the “animators” working on this project since they don’t seem to respect the job of what an animator does. I am blown away by the work on Avatar, but I don’t understand how the animators did not get any love on this film… There was so much great creature/robot stuff. I’d love to hear from some people on the crew about how the roles of an animator were defined on this picture…Expressions must have been pushed, Physicality, interaction… What is the Motion capture to animation ratio?
