A guide to performance animation that offers tips and techniques to help animators create characters with a wide range of emotions; includes a CD-ROM with video clips illustrating the seven essential acting concepts discussed in the book.
"Craft notes for animators analyzes specific films, including Frozen and Inside Out, to explain the secrets of creating truthful stories and believable characters. It is an essential primer for tomorrow's industry leaders and animation artists." -- Cover page 4.
If Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the animation industry's infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward adolescence. While a well-funded marketing machine can conceal structural flaws, uneven p…