The book Animation The Whole Story is like a guide to creating animated movies. Written by animator, writer and director Howard Beckerman using sketches, photos, diagrams and step-by-step illustrations to guide the reader through a mixture of stages such as ‘Beginning to draw’, ‘Telling the story’ and ‘Building an animated sequence’. This book not only gives guidance to creating animations, but also back history the rise of animation, in terms of how and where it began.
The structure of the book is nicely balanced with easy to follow steps, which is why I plan to use this book for research upon for my essay question. Though there is not much information on comedy here, it is explained simply to the degree that you can even picture what the writer is trying to tell you. It gives you tips on the most important aspects of what makes something funny, such as the timing, the changing of colours, unusual situations to clever dialogue and narration.
From reading a good couple of pages of this book, anyone even thinking of becoming an animator or just thinking of animating, it is greatly advised you go and grab a copy. This is written by someone who drew characters such as Mighty Mouse, Popeye and Heckle and Jeckle, all of which had become successful animations, meaning this guy knows what he is talking about. Also because the format he’s written it in is simple enough for animators of all levels to understand and engage in.
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