The definitive and practical manual on animation production, personally explained by Richard Williams, the animation director of the triple Academy Award-winning film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The content is based on his “Animation Masterclass,” in which animators from The Walt Disney Company, Pixar, DreamWorks, Blue Sky, and Warner Bros. have participated both in the United States and Europe. Williams provides the ground rules of animation required by all animators, from novices to experts and from classical hand-drawing animators to the masters of CG anime. While urging readers to create things that are both original and believable, he illustrates key points with countless drawings and distils the secrets of animation’s masters into a practical production system.