All the basic principles of animation are here, clearly explained with lots of illustrations and make 'em yourself flipbooks and access to over 45 Quicktime movies of each of the examples in this book.

There are 24 different example based assignments in this book for you to do. If you're trying to get into an animation school or just learning how to animate so you can do some of your own Flash animation, this is a must have book!

This book is over 300 pages and covers all the basic principles of animated motion.

Just like all his other books, this one is written for college level students interested in getting into the animation industry. This is a great book if you want to get into an animation college program and want a head start over everyone else.

There is no easy 1-2-3 step process here! This exhaustively goes through and explains all the thought processes that go into animating.

The book is broken up into two sections:

Section One introduces you to the terms and theories behind the different principles.

• Keys & Extremes
• Inbetweens
• Exposure Sheets
• Timing Charts
• Slo-in & Slo-out
• Cycles
• Arcs
• Squash & Stretch
• Descending Energy
• Weight
• Follow Through
• Secondary Action
• Successive Breaking of Joints
• Anticipation / Action / Reaction
• Overlapping Action
• Animatng Emotions
• Your Work Process
• Flipping
• Drawing Principles


Section Two takes you through 24 different assignments that will teach you all the basic principles:
1 - Mechanical Movement
2 - Slo-in & Slo-out
3 - Perpetual Ball Bounce
4 - Descending Energy Ball
5 - Pendulum Swing
6 - Overlapping Action
7 - Stationary Seaweed
8 - Overlapping Pendulum
9 - Perspective Pendulum
10 - Anticipation / Reaction
11 - Sliding Seaweed
12 - Bowling Ball Drop 13 - Balloon Drop
14 - Double Ball Bounce
15 - Box Fold
16 - Arm Point
17 - Single Arm Swing
18 - Double Arm Swing
19 - Leg Walk Cycle
20 - Character Walk Cycle
21 - Run Cycle
22 - Head Rotation
23 - Jump Cycle
24 - Character Sidestep


Each assignment has a flip book that you can make so you can see the action. Not only that, but you can access the online versions of each of the assignments as Quicktime animations. You can use the slide control to single frame the drawings to see how it was done.

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