A key part of any successful TV show is its ability to grab the attention of producers, executives and investors to bring it to life - and for this you need a bible. Adding secondary actions to the main action gives a scene more life, and can help to support the main action. A good pitch is like throwing out a hook, helping your potential investors and partners to understand the context of your idea and build excitement about its potential. She is also founding editor of Animation Journal and author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics, The Animation Bible, and A New History of Animation. Topping the list of "best animation books of all time" in a poll at AWN, The Illusion of Life is still used as reference on and source of inspiration for character animation.

One thing in particular that Johnston and Thomas warned against was creating "twins": characters whose left and right sides mirrored each other, and looked lifeless. Williams talks a lot about "breaking joints", frames where a joint has moved in a way a real body wouldn't actually allow but which shows intention and adds liveliness precisely by doing things that aren't actually possible.All the illustrations were fully animated in the app version, and many parts of the chapter were annotated with explanatory comments from Disney's current animators. If a scene contains several elements, there should be a balance in how those elements are exaggerated in relation to each other, to avoid confusing or overawing the viewer. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son.

Follow through and overlapping action [ edit ] Follow through and overlapping action: the galloping race horse's mane and tail follow the body. The 1981 edition published by Abbeville Press ( ISBN 0896592332) used better quality paper and consequently possessed higher image quality than either the 1988 edition or the revised edition from 1995 ( ISBN 0-7868-6070-7) (published by Disney's Hyperion with the inverted title The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation). The important thing about secondary actions is that they emphasize, rather than take attention away from the main action. In addition the student is taken through all the stages of making an animated film, from pre-production concepts and scripts to the debut screening and distribution of the finished animation. Overlapping action" is the tendency for parts of the body to move at different rates (an arm will move on different timing of the head and so on).It can serve as a preparation for a pitch, or as a detailed guide for directors and overseas production houses. This technique can be applied to a moving limb by rotating a joint, or a thrown object moving along a parabolic trajectory. A third, related technique is "drag", where a character starts to move and parts of them take a few frames to catch up. Anticipation is used to prepare the audience for an action, and to make the action appear more realistic. The essence of this principle is keeping focus on what is relevant, and avoiding unnecessary detail.

Most natural action tends to follow an arched trajectory, and animation should adhere to this principle by following implied "arcs" for greater realism. The "moving hold" animates between two very similar positions; even characters sitting still, or hardly moving, can display some sort of movement, such as breathing, or very slightly changing position. She has been awarded for her contributions by the Hollywood chapter of the International Animation Society, ASIFA, and Variety Magazine.It can be applied to simple objects, like a bouncing ball, or more complex constructions, like the musculature of a human face. Modern-day computer animators draw less because of the facilities computers give them, [35] yet their work benefits greatly from a basic understanding of animation principles, and their additions to basic computer animation. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord. As an object's speed or momentum increases, arcs tend to flatten out in moving ahead and broaden in turns.