Do a Google search on Eaweard Muybridge and you will find a few sites with his work also there are some good books with his work in them too.
The Animation Survivak Kit by Richard Willaims is a great book with many examples of walk cycles and numerous other actions broken down frame by frame.
ed
Department of Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota Florida
Many digital cameras now come with a feature to record not a straight video like an MPEG but a sequence of frames, 16-32 usually. Handy if you're capturing a willing subject and want to get a general idea how how they're moving...Mine's just a Sony CyberShot, not too expensive, but I can only assume everything else from there on up has a similar feature.
The exact title and author escapes me at the moment, but the book on Timing for Animators is a good one as well, not so much because of sequenced drawings, which it has a few of for illustrating ideas, but also for how to concieve of how to plan sequences.
Do a Google search on Eaweard Muybridge and you will find a few sites with his work also there are some good books with his work in them too.
The Animation Survivak Kit by Richard Willaims is a great book with many examples of walk cycles and numerous other actions broken down frame by frame.
ed
Department of Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota Florida
Many digital cameras now come with a feature to record not a straight video like an MPEG but a sequence of frames, 16-32 usually. Handy if you're capturing a willing subject and want to get a general idea how how they're moving...Mine's just a Sony CyberShot, not too expensive, but I can only assume everything else from there on up has a similar feature.
The exact title and author escapes me at the moment, but the book on Timing for Animators is a good one as well, not so much because of sequenced drawings, which it has a few of for illustrating ideas, but also for how to concieve of how to plan sequences.
Cartoon Thunder
There's a little biker in all of us...
i believe, mr. rupert, and a very fine book indeed, especially on the physics of falling objects, among other things.
also Preston Blair books-- our bible during the first years.
Don't worry. All shall be well.
That's the one. Really useful, but not thick with explanations. They show rather than tell. Sometimes I'll flip through it at bedtime.
Cartoon Thunder
There's a little biker in all of us...
The book is by Whitaker. It was out of print for a long time and is back again.
- Marla