Syllabus	Motionographer.com	U of MN Animation Home Page
Class Outline	VideoCoPilot.net	Links
Recommended Texts	CreativeCow.net	John Lasseter's Principles of Animation
	After Effects tutorial at the Adobe web site
Assignments	A boatload of tutorials from Tutorialized.com
Assessment	All kinds of tutorials, galleries and insight into the CG world of 3D, 2D and otherwise at CGSociety.org

Some more highly recommended books for animation:

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion, and Internet Animators by Richard Williams

A unique and thorough book from a master of the animation trade

The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation by Kit Laybourne

A multilevel book, very important for the beginner, only B&W illustrations, but full of them.

Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation by Giannalberto Bendazzi

The most complete text ever written about world animation.

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas &Ollie Johnston

A must. A beautiful, brilliant and incredibly useful book

The Animator's Workbook by Tony White

Provides the foundation for apprenticeship training in order to preserve the animator's craft.

Animation: From Script to Screen by Shamus Culhane

Though this is not a book full of illustrations and color is one of the most serious about the art of animation. Cartoon Animation by Walter Foster

A bible for the beginner, very useful and easily written. Generations learned how to animate, reading this book. v

Acting in Animation: A Look at 12 Films by Ed Hooks

Acting is so important in animation, but you will not find many books about the theme, this is one of them, and it's a very interesting book.

Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion: New Volume 3 (Reprint of original volumes 9-11) by Eadweard Muybridge

This is a must. It shows all the pictures from the pioneer Muybridge, with excellent quality, considering the time they were shot.

Timing for Animation by Harold Whitaker

Full of illustrative drawings, this is very good guide for the beginner.

Force: The Key to Capturing Life Through Drawing by Mike Mattesi

If you want to be a 2D or 3D animator, you must have a good skill in draw human figure in motion; this book will help you in being successful in this task.

Of Mice and Magic by Leonard Maltin

An in-depth look at American mainstream animation history

Understanding Animation by Paul Wells

Thoughtful and scholarly insight into the art of animation

Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics

by Maureen Furniss

Thought provoking analysis of animation aesthetics.

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