Animation - The Art of Layout and Storyboarding

193 Pages·1999·22.57 MB·English

by  Mark Byrne

Animation

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Complete step-by-step techniques in crawing layout snd
storyboards for classical, I'V and computer game animation
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Contents

5 Acknowledgements

8 Foreword

11 Introduction

17 Perspective ”

51 Pans be

69 Composition

87 Lighting and Rendering (]

99 Staging

119 Techniques and Motifs
135 Scene Planning

155 Computers and Layout

161 Storyboarding
Foreword

I've often heavdl it sald, tha: creativity without craft, is ike
ful withaut an engine. Gne can never replace the other,
but rather, they must co-exist in balance so as to achieve
success In any artistic pursuit. Tho tecnniques of an
urlform become the language with which itis expressed.
Talent fs, of course, a pre-requisite, but the level of an
arlist’s proficiency seems clrectly related to the mastery of
the rreaium in which ne communicates. There is no better
example of this delicate partnership than in the art of

| attended college with the intent af learning all tha: thera
‘was to know about commercial animation, | read books,
talked to industry profess‘onals, and did my best fa absorb
alll could from the classes, but il wasn't urtl | landed my
first job in animation that | realised how impractical my
training had actually been. The ‘real world’ of animation
can be vastly different from what you've read in boaks or
studied in school

Professiona! anirration artists carry with thor an arsenal
of specialised lechniques and time-saving tools thal they
have gathered and leamed through experience n the
industry. The average neweomer can't help but fee!
baffled, disoriented, anc overwholmad by this very
daunting disadvantage. “The Art of Layout and
Sloryboarding’ is @ book that finaly bridges this gap.