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Author Whitaker, Harold, 1920-2013.

Title Timing for animation / Harold Whitaker and John Halas
Edition First edition
Published London ; New York : Focal Press, 1981
1981

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 MELB  778.5347 WHI T  AVAILABLE
Description 142 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents What is good timing? -- The storyboard -- Responsibility of the director -- The basic unit of time in animation -- Timing on bar sheets -- Exposure charts -- Animation and properties of matter -- Movement and caricature -- Cause and effect -- Newton's laws of motion -- Objects thrown through the air -- Timing of inanimate objects -- Rotating objects -- Force transmitted through a flexible joint -- Force transmitted through jointed limbs -- Spacing of drawings-general remarks -- Spacing of drawings -- Timing a slow action -- Timing a fast action -- Getting into and out of holds -- Single frames or double frames? -- How long to hold? -- Anticipation -- Follow through -- Overlapping action -- Timing an oscillating movement -- Timing to suggest weight and force -- Timing to suggest force: repeat actrion -- Character reactions and 'takes' -- Timing to give a feeling of size -- The effects of friction, air resistance and wind -- Timing cycles-how long a repeat? -- Effects animation: flames and smoke -- Water -- Rain -- Snow -- Explosions -- Repeat movements of inanimate objects -- Timing a walk -- Types of walk -- Spacing of drawings in perspective animation -- Timing animals' movements: horses -- Timing animals' movements: other quadrupeds -- Timing an animal's gallop -- Bird flight -- Drybrush -- Accentuating a movement -- Strobing -- Fast run cycles -- Characterisation -- The use of timing to suggest mood -- Synchronising animation to speech -- Lip-Sync -- Timing and music -- Camera movements -- Peg movements
Analysis Cinematography Animation Timing
Subject Animation (Cinematography)
Author Halas, John.
LC no. 80041303
ISBN 0240517148