“What has cost me millions of dollars and over 30 years to learn, I’ve now put into a 16-DVD box-set combining my Animation Masterclasses with over 400 specially animated examples.”
Richard Williams Animation Masterclass presents the ultimate animation course:
“The Animator’s Survival Kit – Animated”
How would you like a triple Oscar winner as your personal animation instructor?
Richard Williams, Director of Animation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is the link-man passing on the secrets of the masters to the present generation. This box-set is like having your own personal animation school. Over 16 sessions you are given a complete animation curriculum in it’s most practical form and you will be able to put these animation lessons to work immediately.
There’s never been anything like it. Filmed at Blue Sky Studios in New York, the Masterclass is inter-cut with over 400 specially animated examples from Richard Williams’ best-selling book – “The Animator’s Survival Kit”
These DVD’s are for professionals and students and cover the knowledge of the underlying principles of sophisticated animation which apply to any style or approach to the medium, including computer, classical, games, stop motion and internet animation.
The Animator’s Survival Kit – Animated is about how things move, and specific work methods used to make characters live, breathe, think and give a sustained commanding performance. Williams demonstrates his points with drawing, performance and over 400 specially animated examples – many from his best-selling book.
Playing the Disks
These DVDs are Region Free and will be accepted by all DVD players. However, The Animator’s Survival Kit – Animated is NTSC television standard (North American). Other parts of the world use the PAL and SECAM television standards but 95% of PAL/SECAM DVD/TV combinations will still play these DVDs perfectly. If in doubt please check your DVD Player’s instructions.
As PC-based DVD-players can play all television standards, you will be able to play The Animator’s Survival Kit – Animated in a DVD-equipped computer provided your computer is equipped with a DVD drive and suitable DVD playing software.
Disk Content
16-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:
1. Starting Right
2. Timing and Spacing
3. Working Methods
4. More Timing More Spacing
5. Building Walks
6. Flexibility in a Walk
7. Sneaks, Runs, and Animal Action
8. Flexibility
9. Overlapping Action and Weight
10. Takes
11. Vibrates
12. Accents
13. Dialogue 1
14. Dialogue 2
15. Giving the Performance
16. Putting it all Together
Over 10 hours in total of lessons and includes over 400 specially animated examples.
REVIEW
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“The sample animation is amazing and it is so wonderful to see Richard Williams demonstrating in live-action: articulate, passionate and humorous. He is a distillation of a dozen master animators each giving you a private tutorial, a uniquely personal way to learn the art and the craft of animation.”
JOHN CANEMAKER, NYU Professor, Author, Oscar-winning animation filmmaker. |
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“I attended one of Richard’s Master classes years ago and it had a fundamental and lasting effect on my work. He changed my understanding of animation and inspired me to rethink everything I was doing. I am better director thanks to him. Richard Williams is a natural teacher and an amazingly gifted animator; I will be watching these DVDs over and over and over again.”
ROB COLEMAN, Animation Director, Star Wars episodes 1, 2 and 3. Two time Oscar nominee. |
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“What I came out with was a complete re-structuring of animation, how I saw animation, how I analysed motion. People the first night sat down at their work stations and were running some of Richard’s examples … and at lunchtime you could see the influence. It was a revelation.”
CHRIS WEDGE, Oscar winner Bunny and Director Ice Age. |
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“When an animation great like Richard Williams offers you the fruits of his experience – his knowledge, his craft – packed into a box and fully illustrated with moving pictures, just say ‘thank you!’ and hand over the cash. Then use it.”
JAN PINKAVA Oscar winner Geri’s Game and Co-Director Ratatouille. |
BIOGRAPHY
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RICHARD WILLIAMS
Richard Williams was the creative mind behind the animation of the worldwide smash success Who Framed Roger Rabbit for which he won two Oscars. He directed and designed Roger and Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and all the new characters for the Walt Disney/Steven Spielberg blockbuster.
British based Williams has won 3 Oscars, 3 British Academy Awards and over 250 other international awards.
Richard Williams’ current project is a 16-DVD boxed set which brings together his legendary Masterclasses with his best-selling book to create The Animator’s Survival Kit – Animated. This has over 400 specially animated examples intercut with his 4 day Masterclass filmed at Blue Sky Studios in New York.
Richard Williams has a 50 year career in animation which includes The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, What’s New Pussycat, the James Bond Casino Royale, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Oscar winning A Christmas Carol.
In the 1990’s he gave the Richard Williams’ Animation Masterclasses around the world to participants from studios such as Disney, Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks/PDI and Warner Bros followed by the best-selling The Animators Survival Kit (2001).
During his more than 50 years in the business Williams has been one of the true innovators and serves as the link between the Golden Age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes. Perhaps even more important has been his dedication to passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn can push the medium in new directions.
‘Absolute animation genius’
LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Arguably the best animator working in the field today’
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Voted by peers as ‘The Animator’s Animator’
OBSERVER
‘The only “genius” genius to come along in animation in years … probably one of the most respected draftsmen in the world.’
LOS ANGELES TV TIMES
AWARDS
Richard Williams has OVER 250 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS (Average of one award every month over 25 years) including:
* OSCAR: Special Academy Award 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* OSCAR: Academy Award – Special Effects 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* OSCAR: Academy Award 1972, A Christmas Carol
* BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD: Special Achievements 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* EVENING STANDARD SPECIAL AWARD: Distinguished Contribution to British Cinema 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD: 1958, The Little Island
* EMMY AWARD: 1982, Ziggy’s Gift
* WINSOR McCAY AWARD: 1984, Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation “Annie”
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