Animation Background Layout: From Student to Professional

✍ Scribed by Mike S. Fowler

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Animation Background Layout: From Student to Professional , has an easy to follow format with so much information that people of any animation skill level can learn something new.

This book answers both, "How is layout made? but also, Why?". Each chapter progressively elaborates on layout concepts and topics to assist the building of your skills.

Illustrated and explained in this book are: Perspective, Perspective Grids, Composition, Staging, Fielding of Characters, Camera Moves, Thumbnail Sketches, Tonal Drawings, Storyboard, Model/Pose/Prop Sheets, Location Designs, Field Guides, Level Sketches, labeling, Compilation of a Layout Folder, Tips and Tricks, and much more.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
1. Intro to Perspective......Page 11
2. Types of Camera Shots and Angles......Page 29
3. Composition and Framing......Page 41
4. Staging and Perspective Grids......Page 51
5. Thumbnail......Page 65
6. Element Placement......Page 71
7. Support Material......Page 79
8. Graticule, Field Guide and Labelling......Page 93
9. Camera Moves......Page 113
10. Background Layout Elements......Page 143
11. How to Compile the Drawings......Page 151
12. Tonal Studies......Page 157
13. Layout Cheats and Tricks......Page 163
14. "If"......Page 169
15. Notes......Page 170