By
Tony White, Tony White, renowned animator, director, professor, lecturer, and author, has been in the animation industry for over 30 years, and currently
teaches 2D animation and oversees principal animation production classes at DigiPen Institute of Technology. White began his career working
with legendary industry professionals like award-winning illustrator Ralph Steadman, animation gurus Ken Harris, Art Babbit (original
lead animator on Pinocchio, Fantasia, and others at Disney). He also personally assisted, then directed/animated for Richard Williams
(3 time Oscar winner and author of The Animator's Survival Kit). In addition to being the Dean of Fine Art and Animation at DigiPen,
White founded and presides over The Animaticus Foundation, which he formed to preserve, teach and evolve the art form of traditional
2D animation.
Description
Sadly the days of the traditional studio apprenticeship in animation are long gone but this book enables the reader to find the next best
thing, watching and observing a Master Animator at work. Become Tony White's personal animation apprentice, and experience the golden
era of the great Disney and Warner Brothers studios right in your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely
designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. It offers a DVD with animated movies and filmed excerpts
of the author at his drawing board to illustrate the concepts as the work is being created. Tony White's Animation Master Class offers
secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. The book comes out of the author's six years of real-world professional
experience teaching animation, and 30 years of professional experience.
Whether you want to become a qualified animator of 2D, 3D,
Flash or any other form of animation, Tony White's foundations bring you closer to that goal.
The DVD is invaluable, in that readers
are not only taught principles and concepts in the book, they are able to see them demonstrated in action in the movies on the DVD.
Audience:
Practicing professional animators of all levels: traditional, 2D, and 3D, web animators, broadcast animators, game animators, illustrators,
concept artists, game or comic book artists.
Animation school graduates, starting industry. Novice animators who want to break into
the business.
Secondary market: students.
