How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Masterclass on the Traditional Principles of Animation Paperback – 12 May 2009

One of the best books for starting with Animation and its Concepts including all the Principles in depth. Its really all about how to make movies from start to end till its distribution. All sort of tips and guidelines you get on what to concentrate and what to avoid. How to create stories, prepare for pre-production and move to production stage till post-production. It actually teaches about hand drawn animation which is extremely necessary if you really want to progress in today's digital 2D & 3D animation. If you can create animation just by hand, you can do it at best anywhere you like. Remember John Lasseter (the Director of Pixar Animation Studio)? He knew only hand drawn animation but so well that he could do it in the best way in 3D animation using 3D application packages that Ed Catmull had created. So buy this book and read it with all your interest if you really want to be an Animator. It has lots of useful exercises and a video tutorial CD too. Its totally worth it. :)

Great bookInspiring and learning book for animators