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Animation: The Whole Story
by Howard Beckerman
This expert guide provides animation artists with all the tools and know-how they need to get started.
Drawing from his versatile background as an animator, entrepreneur, and studio owner, the author offers an accessible roadmap to the technically complex art of making animated movies. Vivid sketches, screenshots, and step-by-step illustrations guide readers through the various stages, from crafting suspenseful characters and stories, creating story boards, and layout techniques to the animation process, the use of form and color, filming, creating soundtrack, and editing.
Topics are balanced carefully between classics such as storytelling techniques and recent digital trends, between guidance for aspiring studio artists and those seeking independence. Readers receive advice on the role of the art director, how to find work in the animation industry, how to market oneself, and how to put together one’s own project within a limited budget. A comprehensive chapter on the history of animation, presented in a witty, easy-to-understand style, offers insightful lessons to educators and students.
More versatile, comprehensive, and accessible than most recent animation books, this primer provides budding studio animators and independent artists with everything they need to find their niche in today’s quickly evolving animation industry. |
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Reviews
“For over thirty years, Howard Beckerman’s students have benefited from his great knowledge and expertise. Now, with the release of this book, a far wider audience will be able to share his unique vision of this compelling art form.”
—Reeves Lehman, Chairman of Animation, The School of Visual Arts
“I was fortunate enough to learn the art of animation from Howard himself when I was starting out. For all those out there who weren’t so lucky, here’s his course, in book form. Insightful, useful, conversational, and thorough, Animation: The Whole Story is a valuable learning tool. Howard is a skilled technician, but more importantly, a true artist, and his insights into the creative process will be a revelation even to those who know him well.”
—Richard Gorey, animator and author of The Great Rabbit Rip-Off
“Howard Beckerman has created a loving and detailed look at the history and mechanics of animation and has boiled it down to its essence.”
—Peter de Spve, character designer and illustrator”
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