"Animation in a Nutshell" book available?

Question

I do have a 2nd question about reference materials that would make it easier for me.

You know how you stated everything in animations is treated like a bouncing ball? With different functions you can apply to points on the animation graph sheet to speed up, slow down, and enact other nuances to the animation?

Is there a PDF or some very concise reference guide neatly organized and printed for such facts you can point me to? Or a 'Animation in a Nutshell' type of book you can point me to? It need not mention the particulars of any software at all. If not, that's OK. I'll go back and review your introduction videos and take my own notes.

Answer 1 · 2021-02-23T23:11:43Z

Wayne Dixon replied February 23, 2021 11:11pm

Hmm, that's a difficult question Agro.

There are countless books about animation (the art form) but I don't know any concise PDFs that explain the nuances with the graph editor.

A good nutshell type of book about animation would be "Character Animation Crash Course - by Eric Goldberg".

If you want to learn more about the graph editor, watch the graph editor video again practice.

What you are actually doing in an art (animation) using a tool (Blender Software). This takes practice because animation is hard!

Answer 2 · 2021-02-23T23:16:03Z

j

replied February 23, 2021 11:16pm

Thanks Wayne, I will buy the book and keep copies of the video course local to my PC so I can scrub through them, review them, and make my own notes.

Answer 3 · 2021-11-02T23:53:19Z

Wayne Dixon replied November 2, 2021 11:53pm

Hi Agro, the previous comment was from a spam bot. I removed it to keep the site as spam free as possible, but then your reply felt really weird because it was then out of context. So I removed that too, just so people wouldn't be reading it thinking you're a weird spam bot. Because you're not - or at least I don't think you are haha. Glad you liked the book btw! Make sure you read it again a second or third time. Some of the things will 'click' at different times.

Answer 4 · 2021-11-03T01:26:02Z

j

replied November 3, 2021 1:26am

Oh, sorry. I thought it was posted by just a person that had read one too many O'Reilly IT reference manuals that had posted that. Thanks. The book is good though.

Answer 5 · 2021-12-03T07:43:37Z

s

replied December 3, 2021 7:43am

I can say the same thing as Wayne. That animation is more learned in practice than in theory. There are countless books about animation, but they are of no use.