Animation, from Pencils to Pixels: Classical techniques for digital animators - Tony White

Animation, from Pencils to Pixels: Classical techniques for digital animators - Tony White

"Like the current industry it reflects, the process of “passing down the pencil” from master to student has significantly changed in recent times. Once upon a time, there was a thriving apprenticeship system. But now it is gone. Today, education for the animators of the future needs to occur through schools, colleges, and textbooks like this one. If a continuity of knowledge is to remain, then this education, at the highest and most accomplished level, has to occur without further loss to traditional values. It is so easy for the young student of animation or those who teach the young students of animation to be seduced by the glamour and the immediacy of the new technologies. Digital tools and techniques have so much to offer the contemporary animator and can effectively eliminate much of the tedium associated with frame-by-frame filmmaking. Teaching software, and not the fundamental principles of animation, ultimately breeds a generation of technicians rather than artists. I therefore earnestly encourage every student who is intent on becoming an accomplished animator (yes, even those of a 3D, or other, persuasion) to invest time in the pursuit of studying the great tradition that heralded this current era. This way is the way of true animated mastery. It is extremely important to me that this book will enable young animators from all over the world, of all cultures and social classes to animate, and to animate very well. Hopefully all that will need to be added is a humble pencil, a reliable computer and a dedicated soul afire with desire and imagination for the great art form we all know and love. If even the slightest and yet most significant progress is made in this wonderful, magical world we call animation, then I will have passed on my pencil with a satisfied mind and a jubilant heart."

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