The Complete Digital Animation Course: Principles, Practices, and Techniques: a Practical Guide for Aspiring Animators Paperback – January 1, 2010

I teach 3D Animation at the Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami, Florida. I use this text as a resource in my program. Although it doesn't go too in-depth, it does provide a brief introductory overview of the main topics relevant to the industry. I highly recommend it to anyone studying/teaching the subject.

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Exceptional book!! Went perfectly with my animation course!

Software was easy to use. Slightly complicated for a kid.

Good book.

I think the earlier review is right that the book may lack details of any specific stages of creating animation. However, the book is intended to be an introductory text and it covers every major steps that are used in creating basic animations. The book is a fast-read and is especially informative for teenagers / amateurs who know nothing about animation and get a structured overview of the various stages of animation. Readers who are interested in techniques or improving their program-specific skills will find the content not adequate for meeting those purposes.

I have gone over this book as part of the curriculum for a recently revised animation course. Most of its content consists of articles in a two-page-spread format. This makes it easy to read, but it also makes it very light. The only lessons that deal with specific software are three one-page introductions to Flash, Toon Boom, and Maya. There is little detail about any of those programs. The reader is left on his/her own to find more useful information about them. Most articles suffer from the same lack of depth.Some articles can be used as lessons. The ones on general concepts like environment and character design are pretty good, but without a context to apply it to, readers are left on their own to determine how to use the lesson in their chosen environment. For example, it is nice to know some basic principles about timing in a scene, but it is more useful to tell the student how to apply the principles in Maya, 3DS Max, Flash, or something. The book would have been more useful had the author chosen to focus on one software platform. This would have had less general appeal, but it might have been of more use to an aspiring animator. A more accurate title might have been A Digital Animation Overview. I am glad this is not the only book the committee chose for the course in question.

A great deal of information, but is. Abita of a slog, so read when you have the desire and passion for animation+

Such a brilliant book, full of sueful information for the aspiring animator!