Layout and Composition for Animation

Very nice book

This book delivers what it promises. It gives good and solid suggestions on how to solve real life difficulties. Well layed out, and easy to read and learn from.I think it looses focus in the last sections of the book, but it is a book I would recommend to anyone who wants to enhance their layout and composition skills.

great book to have !

Excellent book for animation students!!..arrived in excellent condition...very pleased

This purchase was a gift for my son and came as a recommendation for fellow animation students.

I'm an artist who can draw but who knows little about animation. This book must average about 20 words per page. There's so little information, it seems like the author is not really thinking about how to make the reader understand anything, but rather is thinking about how tersely he can get through this chapter. Nice pictures and classy print job, but extremely uninspiring, I wonder if anybody has really learned anything practical from this. It's more like an homage to himself than any kind of instructional book.

Love the book, and the way it was handled/shipped. Came on time at the quality level anticipated.

I'll be sincere. I bought this book as a gift for a friend who is an animator, as I am too. What I found was that I read it literally in 5 minutes and it was sooo useless I had to buy something else. Basically every aspect is covered in just one page with a HUGE font, I agree with the people who says that if it would've been bigger it would've been a great book, but as it is, it's like a children's book on animation.I think it might be a good treat if you are an amateur or just starting animating, but if you are studying, you'll probably know 95% of it. It doesn't bring to the table any nice tips, it's more something like a "how is animation done" book.

I had to return this book as it fell below my expecations. Let it be known, I'm not an animator - I went to school for graphic design. So maybe this is why this book bugs me so much.I want to get into animation (if anything more of a hobby than a career b/c I'm not someone fresh out of highschool) and I thought this book would be very informative.At the beginning of the book, the author talks about how he had mentoring from a successful animator and that he feels this kind of in person mentoring/interaction is lost today for most due to the globalization of the field. I think in some ways the author was trying to give that same kind of mentoring but in book form... but it falls short because it's so vague/overassuming in the text. It assumes you know A, B, C, D, E etc already and this is just a simple "watch out for this" or "don't do this" kind of format. The example images rarely had any in detail notes to help explain or tie in the text for better understanding. Also most of the images are in B&W which aren't necessarily a deal breaker.. but makes for such a cut and rather dry book.What helped seal the deal on my return was this along with the layout of book in general... the publisher's graphic designer for this book was not trying AT ALL - or if they were it was a freshman college student's attempt after just learning InDesign... They use a san serif font for everything (apart from Papyrus for some odd reason on some examples), use a grid layout for the entire book... and are so committed to that grid that they have hyphenated words throughout.I showed the inside of the book to my husband who is not at all into design/art and even he said "What is this a children's book?" This is a prime example of how bad design can hinder how the content is received (and if the content is rather dry already as it is in the case of this book, it's like adding nails to the coffin).It felt like a highschool/college textbook out of the early 90s --- but it was confusing as I have one of this publisher's other books "Directing the Story" and that book is well designed throughout and it holds your attention to where you're halfway through the book before realizing it.Maybe this book is best used as a companion to a college professor teaching... but I turned it in and will try Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation next and hope it fairs better.

Ed Ghertner has been in the business for a long time and his animation feature film credits are impressive. The book is a valuable wealth of knowledge for anyone wanting to learn about Layout and Composition for Animation 2D or 3D. It is written is a clear and informative way that is a must have for the professional , student or animation buff.

extraordinary brilliant descriptions, techniques revealed.the best value comes from a 'way' of visual thinking to animation.the author is keen to show some camera tips that makeall the difference... although a lot of 'moving camera' cultureis required to put all that to good use.

for beginners like me, this book is a great reference theoric for obtain a solid concept to create's animations with better final results.

This book has wonderful imagery and clear explanations.Presents the basic concepts in detail and a few advanced techniques. Wish it had more advanced concepts.Nice to have background design as an entire book and not just two pages in the back an overview of the entire animation process.

Very good book, I filled in some blanks in my knowledge.

better than expected. excellent references.

I belive i have much better knowlage of layout now, but I hoped the book would be more indepth, and maybe drop some of the topics.