Tony Whites Animators Notebook 

Sample from The Animator's Notebook

 

Tony White's Animator's Notebook PDF series offer something new: a LIVING book, where pages can be read like a book but they are not static like a book. They come to life with full animations that leap from the page with just a quick click of the mouse.

       
 

Process and Principles
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Process and Principles

Description: This first Notebook in the series, "Process and Principles," offers you a brief history of animation with examples drawn from well-known milestones in animation, while also giving you a solid grounding in animation principles that will bring your animation skills to the next level. Author Tony White is able to illustrate the principles he presents with real animations right in the document.
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Generic Walks
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Generic Walks

Description: This second Notebook in the series, "Generic Walks," instructs on that most basic but elusive animation task, the walk. Author Tony White leads you through the different stages character movement, and shows you the resulting walks in the animations incorporated directly into the PDF document. The animations illustrate historical styles, like "rubber hose" animation, as well as the result of the principles in the discussion, and possible variations on that result.
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Stylized Walks
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Stylized Walks

Description: This third Notebook in the series, "Stylized Walks," digs deeper into this most fundamental of character movements, helping you get it right with ample animation examples. The accompanying animations show you how characters move--instead of just describing their movement.
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Personality Walks
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Personality Walks

Description: The fourth Notebook in this series, "Personality Walks," delves into the fundamental techniques that will allow you to give personality to your character's walk. The accompanying animations will show you how to portray a a variety of emotions through your character's walk.
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Quadruped Walks
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Quadruped Walks

Description: The fifth Notebook in this series, "Quadruped Walks," will show you how to deal with animating non-bipedal characters (mostly animals!) and how to approach the synchronization of more than one pair of legs. The accompanying animations will show you how to achieve fluid, realistic quadruped walks.
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Generic Runs
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Runs

Description: The sixth Notebook in this series, "Generic Runs," instructs on the basic principles and common misconceptions about runs. The animations focus on the importance weight transfer, enviromental settings, and stride length.
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Generic Runs
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Jumps

Description: The seventh notebook of this series, "Jumps," instructs on the process of animating jumps. You will also learn how to make a jump more fluid by factoring in the challenging of gravity.
The featured animations demonstrate the basic principles of jumping and how to correctly execute them.
Suitable for animators of all types, whether 2D, 3D, stop-motion or any other kind of animator!
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Generic Runs
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Weight

Description: The eighth notebook for this series, "Weight," teaches you how to deal with the factor of weight when animating a character. You will be shown how to create a character that behaves realistically in accordance with their volume and mass. The accompanying animations delve into how to integrate weight into movement while at the same time ensuring that your character is subject to the laws of gravity.
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Generic Runs
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Arcs & Anticipation

Description: The ninth notebook of this series, "Arcs & Anticipation," delves deeply into the fundamentals of gravity and its effect on movement and fluidity. Tony White demonstrates how arc and antcipation works with characters in accordance to their mass and weight. The featured animations show you how to execute realistic falls, bodily movement, and anticipation.
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Overlapping Action
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Overlapping Action

Description: The tenth notebook of this series, "Overlapping Action," explains the importance of making decisions when it comes to overlapping action. Tony White demonstrates how to differentiate between primary and secondary action and when to use them appropriately, a common mistake made by amateur animators.
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Fluidity & Flexibility
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Fluidity & Flexibility

Description: The eleventh notebook of this series, "Fluidity and Flexibility," focuses on avoiding the pitfalls of creating stiff and lackluster animation.  Tony will explain how although there has been great technological developments in animation, fluidity and flexibilty has been increasingly overlooked.  You will be shown how to apply traditional approaches to today's cutting-edge animation software, giving your character that realistic look.
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Dialogue Basics
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Dialogue Basics

Description: The twelfth notebook of this series, "Dialogue Basics," covers all of the core principles that any animator should know when animating a talking character.  The importance of body language, lip movements, and mouth shape are illustrated through live animation examples.
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