Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair: Learn to animate step by step (How to Draw & Paint)

This is an absolutely brilliant book, both as a learning tool and a reference point for your own further exercises. Although the description may make it sound light on pages, the book itself is huge, packed with detail, and feels absolutely lovely to flick through. The pedigree of the author certainly shines through in the quality of the artwork and teaching, and it finally got me to understand previously ungraspable principles, including the line of motion, 'appeal', and the dreaded walk cycle. I can't recommend it enough - this goes right up there with Richard Williams.

It's simple to follow (some pages are a bit more complex ) but over all not bad

I got turned onto this book from John K's blog, and it does not disappoint. The book teaches the importance of construction in animation and it's helped me a great deal in my general drawing also.The majority of this book can be found in his other book though, Cartoon animation, which I got after reading this and seeing how good it was. So if you want to get the other book, that one does have this stuff in however it has very slightly different illustrations.I personally prefer this one though, it's short simple and it's full of character.

This was very late arriving. The supplier granted a refund. The book is informative.

My daughter loves this book. A good introductory book to animation. This really is an intro book, though, and I guess further books would need to be purchased as skills develop.

This is a must buy if you are interested in animation covers a wide range.

This is an easily understood paperback book that explains and illustrates beautifully not only how to animate cartoons, but drawing movement in itself. Even if one doesn't intend to draw for animated films, this gives also some valuable information which can be employed in illustration of books. Excellent value for money!!

It's okayish - the drawings are good and a lot of them but not much explanation. I was surprised at how thin the book felt... I wouldn't exactly rave about this one - not quite what I was expecting. It might make one minor point with very little text followed by lots of diagrams. If you're a total nohoper like me then its not always obvious as to what or how todo what he's going on about.

I often feel like they skipped some valuable steps, but it has so many good excercises in it to practice that I don't mind. I would not start with this book if you are just learning to draw. I would likely go with a drawing basics book and then practice character drawing prior to getting this book. If you dont know much about character drawing then you will struggle with this book a bit.However, it goes into how they drew some of the classic cartoons that we all know and love. I don't regret this purchase whatsoever. Its going to help me in many ways.

Nao curti a parte de ser básico, mas serve de complemento pra outros livros

Me encanta, tiene muy buenos ejercicios, para alguien que inicia y tiene poco presupuesto es genial, pero esta incompleto, es un fragmento de un libro mucho mas completo, solo para que lo tengan en cuenta.

Auf insgesamt 40 Seiten erklärt Preston Blair (der im übrigen als Koryphäe in seinem Bereich gilt), wie man im Disney Stil Emotionen und Bewegungsabläufe skizziert und animiert. Alles wird durch Beispielbilder untermalt. Jeder Charakter wird heruntergebrochen in die einfachsten uns bekannten Formen.Das Einzige, was mir nicht ganz so an diesem Büchlein gefällt, ist die Tatsache, dass es so groß ist. Ich habe Schwierigkeiten es in mein Bücherregal zu packen. Es ist einfach zu hoch. Von der Größe her ist es bisschen kleiner als DIN A3.

Très intéressant ouvrage!