Animated figures made easy

A modern animated movie is the work of a large team of highly specialized professionals for months on end, and when it eventually reaches the cinema screen, it will have swallowed up a budget as big as a "proper" Hollywood film. But then the characters don’t demand large fees. But even with a small budget and the simple techniques available to the pioneers of animated cartoons, it is still possible to produce convincing results even today. You just have to bring along the necessary imagination: all the rest you can learn from this book by the legendary cartoon veteran Preston Blair.

With this book you learn:

* how to develop a cartoon figure of your own and give it "character"
* how to deal confidently with perspective
* how to represent movement convincingly
* how to express emotions convincingly through gesture and body language
* how to make your figure speak
* everything about coloring, background treatment, storyboards and the yynchronization of camera, figure and sound
* the technology and operation of the animated cartoon camera