 | The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $11.15 This is a great introduction to character animation, pencil and pen kind of stuff. Plenty of info and notes on timing, physicality, keyframing techniques, and character design. A little old fashioned, but in a good way.
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 | The Animation Bible: A Practical Guide to the Art of Animating from Flipbooks to Flash by Maureen Furniss
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.88 This is a great overview of all types of animation techniques, nice and glossy, covers computer 3D, stop motion, pencil and pen, photography and such.
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 | Fundamentals of Animation by Paul Wells
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $7.00 Another overview, again with some pencil and pen work but also covering different techniques...
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 | The Art of Stop-Motion Animation by Ken A. Priebe
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $25.32 Great production documentation on a number of stop-motion and mixed media productions. Not especially instructive, but nice to review.
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 | The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Effects, 3rd Edition by Isaac Kerlow
Buy used from: $8.75 I just like this one...it might be getting a little outdated and it's a little unspecific, but it has some basics on modeling, shading, and rendering.
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 | The Art of WALL.E by Tim Hauser
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $21.68 "The Art of..." series is full of concept artwork, renderings, interviews and production notes. Especially Pixar does a good job because they spend so much care in the conceptual phases...
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 | The Art of Kung Fu Panda by Tracey Miller-Zarneke
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $28.20 "The Art of..." series is full of concept artwork, renderings, interviews and production notes. This movie is a lot more visual than the marketing or reputation might make you think.
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 | The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $14.00 "The Art of..." series is full of concept artwork, renderings, interviews and production notes. This is one of the great Miyazaki films, and a very rich set of artwork in this book.
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 | Compositing Visual Effects: Essentials for the Aspiring Artist by Steve Wright
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $17.99 A good overview of compositing with lots of layer breakdowns and examples. It's not application specific, so whatever you are able to use, this book is applicable.
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 | The Animation Show Volume One
Buy used from: $8.81 This show is a good collection of short narrative animations. A good number of the class screenings came from this, look for Volume 2, 3, and coming soon, 4.
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 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Buy used from: $14.50 The classic live-action hand drawn mix. Lots of intensive roto-scoping in this one.
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 | Howl's Moving Castle
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $17.98 A great cel-animated Japanese feature, from director Miyazaki once he started computer-assisted hand drawn animation.
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 | Akira
Buy used from: $12.29 A breakthrough Japanese feature, the film that brought anime to the US.
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