Dive into the captivating world of 2D animation with 'Animating Imagination,' a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of animation. From the rich history of animation to the latest digital tools and techniques, this book covers everything you need to know to bring your imagination to life on the screen. Explore the principles of character animation, craft dynamic environments, and learn how to incorporate sound and music to enhance your storytelling. With practical insights, hands-on exercises, and expert advice, 'Animating Imagination' is your essential companion on the journey to becoming a skilled 2D animator. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a novice enthusiast, this book will inspire and empower you to create captivating animations that captivate audiences and leave a lasting impression.

"A manual of methods, principles and formulas for classical, computer, games, stop motion and internet animators"--Cover.

Detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive animated characters.

Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and moviemaking by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. Directing the Story offers a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. With Francis' help you'll discover the professional storytelling techniques which have swept away generations of movie goers and kept them coming back for more. You'll also learn to spot potential problems before they cost you time or money and offers creative solutions to solve them. Best of all, it practices what it preaches, using a graphic novel format to demonstrate the professional visual storytelling techniques you need to know.

Annotation Blender is an open source 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling, rigging, animating, rendering and thousands of other things. While modeling characters isn't the biggest of your worries, animating them to make them feel as-good-as alive is what differentiates a professional from an amateur. This book offers clear, illustrative, and easy-to-follow recipes to create character rigs and animations for common situations. Bring your characters to life by understanding the principles, techniques and approaches involved in creating rigs and animations, you'll be able to adapt them to your own characters and films. The book offers clear step-by-step tutorials, with detailed explanations, screenshots and support files to help you understand the principles behind each topic. Each recipe covers a logical step of the complete creation of a character rig and animation, so you're not overwhelmed with too much information at once. You'll see numerous examples and screenshots that guide to achieve various rigging and animation tasks, logically separated so you can understand each in detail. The rigging topics are divided by each region of the body (torso, limbs, face, eyes), and further separated by the specific topic (neck, fingers, mouth, eyelids, etc) for clarity. All rigging tasks are accomplished with the built-in tools in Blender, without the complexity of coding custom Python behaviors or user interface elements. The animation topics deal with common situations found in real world productions, showing good practices to understand and overcome the challenges.

"Learn all the tips and tricks of the trade from the professionals. Highly illustrated throughout, points made in the text are demonstrated with the help of numerous superb drawn examples."--

Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.