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The Animator's Survival Kit

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The Animator's Survival Kit	comment	The Animator's Survival Kit is a critically acclaimed animation book and DVD set made by master animator Richard Williams, the animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the creator of The Thief and the Cobbler. The book is a culmination of more than 30 years of research and experience, full of invaluable technical information on animation, not so much about how to draw it as to how to move the stuff. As such, the book has recieved excellent praise from those in the industry.An Expanded Edition of the book was released in 2009, and it also exists as an expensive live class, as a 16-DVD set selling for US$1,000, and an iPad app that basically condenses both for a much more affordable price of $35.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_183aadaf	comment	Furries Are Easier to Draw: Richard quotes Roger Rabbit animator Robert Graves "Epitaph of an Unfortunate Animator" on how this resulted in him [Graves] falling into formula drawing, pointing out that working in cartoons makes it very easy for an artist to slide into formula, and that it also proves a point about why drawing from life is so important.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_226f6129	comment	Line Boil: Williams discusses how badly-made in-between frames can create uncontrolled "wobbling" or "frying" in the animation. He mentions that when he was doing commercials at UPA's London studio, his assistant would change the shape of the character's eyes on his inbetween drawings, causing a distracting wobble.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_38aa5782	comment	Impossible Hourglass Figure: Despite demonstrating a perfect knowledge of anatomy, damn does he love his implausibly proportioned women!
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_3b2acc73	type	Rubber-Hose Limbs
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_3b2acc73	comment	Rubber-Hose Limbs: Discussed, in that it explains this technique of animation, but it also explains how to get flexibility in limbs without literally bending them like noodles. The dachshund of the book's logo was revealed in the animated version of said logo to have a stretchy middle-body when he tried to get inline with the rest of the characters, much to his embarrassment.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_4554eb51	type	The Twelve Principles of Animation
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_4554eb51	comment	The Twelve Principles of Animation: Gives very specific advice on how some of the principles work. It even mentions The Illusion of Life at one point.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Some animation of the witch from The Thief and the Cobbler is reused.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: At the time he was writing the book, Richard wanted to move on past the devastating loss of his film The Thief and the Cobbler, so the book makes no direct mention of the film or its production. Key word here is direct—Richard did sneak in at least two allusions to the film's existence. The first is mentioning working with Vincent Price on an unspecified project, and the caricature of him included is a dead ringer for Zigzag, the character Price played in the film. The second allusion to the film is recycling an actual scene of animation from the film, of the Old Witch running. Ironically, Richard said in a 2013 interview that writing the book allowed him to make peace with the troubled history of Thief and be content with the workprint edit of the film.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Somewhat featured by his demonstration of a male walk compared to a female walk.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Apprenticeship: A few anecdotes about his early career are accompanied by cartoons in which the his Naïve Newcomer Author Avatar is personally chewed out or otherwise put through Training from Hell by his mentors, some of the great early masters of animation.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_701243b8	type	Comical Overreacting
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_701243b8	comment	Comical Overreacting: In the "Unplug" lesson, Richard sets off Milt Kahl by asking him whether he listens to music while drawing.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Averted. Unlike some members of the old guard of animation, he's quick to point out that animating on a computer isn't that different from animating on paper, and introduces its own unique challenges at the same time that it solves some of the problems that plagued traditional animators. He mentions a colleague who described his transition from traditional to digital as learning to "animate with a microwave," a sentiment with which many digital artists will be familiar.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Richard's book is intended to allow animators to do this on their own whim. The promo CD that comes with the book also has a very impressively animated sequence, which Richard claims took around a year to make!
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_80bc43b5	type	Stick Figure Animation
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_80bc43b5	comment	Stick Figure Animation: Most of the examples in the book and videos use simple stick figures so the mechanics are nice and clear and the reader/viewer isn't distracted by a lot of detail.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_a0fd6f80	type	Lazy Artist
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_a0fd6f80	comment	Lazy Artist: Discouraged; Williams makes a great point early in the book that fundamental drawing skills, particularly life drawing and anatomy knowledge, are imperative for any aspiring animator to learn.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_ac5fa94	type	Rotoscoping
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_ac5fa94	comment	Rotoscoping: Discouraged by Williams in the book, claiming that live action footage should only be studied enough to where human animation can be done on your own, instead of falling back on it as a crutch.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Richard's response to common animation mistakes tend to border on being snide remarks.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: The book directly refers to this at one point, and actually explains why it's such a beloved trope among animators: like music, most animation is plotted out in multiples of 4, or more rarely multiples of 3 like a waltz. Syncing animation with music, therefore, provides a set of predetermined, aesthetically pleasing divisions to base keyframes off of, while also providing interesting changeups in the form of subdivided eighth and sixteenth notes to guide more intricate animations. The animated version of the book's logo (it can be watched here) plays this straight as the music syncs with each character's actions as they move in place to perform a choreographed walk cycle.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_b3247afd	comment	The book directly refers to this at one point, and actually explains why it's such a beloved trope among animators: like music, most animation is plotted out in multiples of 4, or more rarely multiples of 3 like a waltz. Syncing animation with music, therefore, provides a set of predetermined, aesthetically pleasing divisions to base keyframes off of, while also providing interesting changeups in the form of subdivided eighth and sixteenth notes to guide more intricate animations.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_b5496c0c	comment	Inflating Body Gag: One sequence shows the classic "character blows into a balloon only for the air to come back and inflate the character" gag.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_c8591326	type	Demon Head
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_c8591326	comment	Demon Head: The drawing of Milt Kahl screaming at Williams gives him an enormous head.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_d53acc8a	comment	You Are Not Ready: During Williams' initial visits to Walt Disney Animation Studios, he was turned down the offer to work; while he was able to adequately draw the stock Disney cartoon characters, his lack of a real life drawing background and drawing fundamentals precluded his chance to work there. A story artist recommended that he learn to draw well first, and that he could always learn to animate later. After his early attempts at life drawing led him to studying Albrecht Durer, Richard put animation off to the side for years and became a painter and illustrator.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_de2fff5a	comment	Off Like a Shot: There's an example about how characters can anticipate running with this pose and then instantly disappear offscreen, leaving only a dust cloud or similar behind.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_de7d4907	comment	Silly Walk: Williams goes at length on how to take a basic walk cycle and play around with the various parts to create some interesting actions. He describes the trope as the fundamental key to all other animation- once you can animate a clean walk, anything else becomes easy.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: One of the characters in the cover image is a clear one for Jessica Rabbit.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Williams notes that he and his animators often gave their drawings complicated numbers before American animators taught them to use a simpler numbering system. He gives a brief anecdote about the British love of complexity.
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The Animator's Survival Kit / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: William's book is unmatched in how knowledgeable it is about animation articulation.
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