Top Book of Animation

Esistono tanti libri di Animazione ma alcuni si concentrano su un determinato aspetto,altri invece spiegano dal punto di Vista Generico o Storico. La lista cresce e si aggiorna nel tempo ma possiamo fare una lista di quelli piú belli e importanti da leggere (Sono Quasi Tutti Scritti in Inglese). Ecco la Mia classifica:

PER FARE L'ANIMAZIONE - TOP 20

1) Animation Masterclasses from Pencil to Pixel  di Tony White

2) Animator Survival Kit di Richard Williams

3) Character Animation Crash Course di Eric G.

4) Elemental Magic I e II - Joseph Gilland

5) Animation from Pencils to Pixels by Tony White

6) How To Make An Animated Films - Tony White

7) Timing for Animation- Harold Whitaker,John Halas,(Updated by Tom Sito)

8) Animation by Preston Blair - (La versione Aggiornata si chiama "Cartoon Animation" )

9) Animated Performance - Nancy Beiman

10) Don Bluth's The Art of Animation Drawing 

11) The Animator's Workbook by Tony White

12) Acting and Performance for Animation - Derek Hayes and Chris Webster

13) Acting and Character Animation - Rolf Giesen - Anna Khan

14) Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation by Wayne Gilbert

15) Producing Independent 2D Character Animation - Mark simon

16) Manuale di Animazione con i Personaggi Loones tunes - Tony Cervone - Vecchi Editore

17) Drawn to Life - Walt Stanchfield

18) Tony White Animator's Notebook

19) The Animation Book: A vomplete Guide to Animated Filmmaking-from Flipbooks to SoundCartoons to 3D Animation

20) Animated Cartoons di E.G. Lutz (1920 - Forse Il Primo Manuale di Animazione in Assoluto)

STORIA E ANALISI DELL' ANIMAZIONE - TOP 10

1) Illusion of Life di Frank T. e Ollie J.

2) The Nine Old Man di A. Deja

3) Disney Art of Animation - Bob Thomas

4) How to Make Animated Cartoons - Nat Falk

5) Gesture Drawing for Animation - Walt Stanchfield

6) Puppetry,puppet animation and The digitalAge - Rolf Giesen -Bendazzi Giannalberto

7) Fare Cinema Disegnato - Francesco Perchiazzi

8) Storia dell'Animazione Giapponese - Guido Tavassi

9) Ink&Paint di Mindy Johnson

10) Setting the Scene: The Art of animation Layout

STORYBOARD e FONDALI - TOP 10

1) Nobel Approach

2) Professional Storyboarding di Sergio Paez &  Anson Jew

3) How to draw Perspective by Mitch Leeuwe

4) Animation The Art of LAYOUT and Storyboarding - Mark T. Byrne

5) How to draw Backgrounds by Mitch Leeuwe

6) Animation Background Layout

7) Storyboards Motion in Art - Mark Simon

8) Layout and Composition for Animation - Ed Ghertner

9) Don Bluth's The Art of Storyboard 

10) The Five C's of Cinematografy - Joseph V. Mascelli

ANATOMIA e CHARACTER DESIGN - TOP 15

1) Anatomy for Sculptors

2) Struttura Uomo in Movimento di Alberto Lolli ,Mauro Zocchetta e Renzo Peretti

3) An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artist- W.  Ellenberger, H. Dittrich, H. Baum

4) Anatomy how to draw... by Mitch Leeuwe 

5) The Art of Animal Drawing - Ken Hultgren

6) Animal Anatomy for artist - Eliot Goldfinger

7) George Bridgman Complete Guide to Drawing

8) Burne Hogart Dynamic Figure Drawing

9) Force dynamic life drawing  for animators di Michael D. Mattesi

10) Action Anatomy  for Gamers,Animator and Digital Artist - Takashi Lijima

11) Force Animal Drawing  di Michael D. Mattesi

12) The Character Designer - 21 Draw

13) Modern Cartooning - Christopher Hart

14) Cartoon Cool - Christopher Hart

15) The Know-How of Cartooning by Ken Hultgren

EXTRA - TOP 10

1) Burne Hogarth - Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery

2) The Advance Art of Stop-Motion Animation di Ken A. Priebe

3) Thinking Animation  Bridging the Gap Between 2D and CG by Oliff J.

4) Stop Motion Craft Skills for Model Animation Susannah Shaw

5) Drawing Dynamic Hands by Burne Hogarth

6) The Simpson Handbook

7) Essential Skills in Character Rigging - Nicholas B. Zeman

8) The Art and Science od Digital Compositing - Ron Brinkmann

9) The Art and Technique of Matchmoving di Erica Hornung

10) The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects - Eran Dinur