The Animator’s Survival Kit Collection 4 Books Set By Richard Williams (Walks, Flexibility and Weight, Dialogue Directing Acting and Animal Action & Runs Jumps and Skips)

The Animator’s Survival Kit Collection 4 Books Set By Richard Williams:

Walks:
This Mini focuses on Walks. Walks are full of personality. Walks reveal the character, they tell the story of the person. In this Mini Richard Williams provides the building blocks of how to construct walks, using stick figures to make it easy to learn, copy and understand.

Flexibility and Weight:
This Mini focuses on Flexibility and Weight. How do we loosen things up and get snap and vitality into our performance at the same time as keeping the figure stable and solid? The answer: successive breaking of joints to give flexibility. In this mini, Williams stresses the importance of knowing where the weight is on every drawing.

Dialogue, Directing, Acting and Animal Action:
This Mini focuses on Directing, Dialogue and Acting. As a director, whatever your idea is, you want to put it over, so the main thing with directing is to be clear – very clear. The Director’s job is to hold everything together so that the animator can give the performance. Richard Williams shows how that performance can be achieved with flexibility and contrast.

Runs, Jumps and Skips:
This Mini focuses on Runs, Jumps and Skips.As with Walks, the way we run shows our character and personality. A lazy, heavy person is going to run very differently to an athletic ten-year-old girl. Richard Williams demonstrates how – when you’re doing a walk and you take both legs off the ground, at the same time and for just one frame – a walk becomes a run. So, all the things we do with walks, we can do with runs.

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