The animator's survival kit

Why This Book?

Drawing in Time

Time to Draw

It's All in the Timing and the Spacing

Lesson 1

Advancing Backwards to 1940. History of the Chart and Inbetween. Extremes and Breakdowns. Keys. Three Ways to Animate. Testing, Testing, Testing. The X-Sheet. Came the Dawn... The Best Numbering System. The Great Ones and Twos Battle. The Top and Bottom Pegs Battle

More on Spacing. Classic Inbetween Mistakes. Watch Your Arcs. Getting More Movement Within the Mass. The Elongated Inbetween. The Major Beginner's Mistake. The 'Ruff' Approach. How Much Do We Leave To The Assistant? Take The Long Short Cut

Walks. Getting the Weight. Set the Tempo. The Passing Position or Breakdown. Two Ways to Plan a Walk. The Double Bounce. Loosening it Up. Digging Deeper into Walks. There's Nothing Like Trying It. The Heel. Foot Action. Normal Walk Spacing. Weight Shift. The Belt Line. Arm Movements. Counteraction. The Recipe. Sneaks. The Tip Toe Sneak

Runs, Jumps and Skips. The 4 Drawing Formula Run. The 3 Drawing Run. The 2 Drawing Run. The Recipe. Run, Jump, Skip and Leap. Skips. Jumps. Weight on a Jump

Flexibility. The Breakdown. Simple Overlap. Overlapping Action. Simple Counteraction. Breaking Joints to Give Flexibility. Flexibility in the Face. Overlapping Action in the Face. Instant Read

Profiles for Readability

Weight. Pressure and Weight. How Much Effort Do We Have to Expend? Dancing. Rules of Thumb On Synchronising Action

Anticipation. Surprise Anticipations. Invisible Anticipations

Takes and Accents. A Hard Accent Bounces Back. A Soft Accent continues

Timing, Staggers, Wave and Whip. Stagger Timings. The Side to Side Vibration Formula. Whip Action. Wave Action

Dialogue. Phrasing. Picture and Sound Sync. Accents. Attitude. The Secret

Acting. Change of Expression. Look for the Contrast. An Acting Point. Body Language. Symmetry or 'Twinning'. Steal It! Eyes

Animal Action. Live Action Reference. Basic Animal Walk Pattern

Directing. The Brief. The Leica Reel. Separate the Characters. Best Foot Forward. Casting Animators. Making Changes. 'Say! Say!'. Voice Recording. Hook Ups. Research. Editing. Believe in Your Material

Review. The Procedure. The Ingredients.