The Academy Award-winning artist draws on his master instruction classes to demonstrate essential techniques required of animators of any skill level or method, in an updated edition that provides expanded coverage of such topics as animal gaits and live action.

Previous ed.: 2001. "A manual of methods, principles and formulas for classical, computer, games, stop motion and internet animators."--Cover. Title on accompanying DVD: The animator's survival kit animated.

Why this book? -- Drawing in time -- Time to draw -- It's all in the timing and the spacing -- Lesson 1 -- Advancing backwards to 1940 -- More on spacing -- Walks -- Runs, jumps and skips -- Flexibility -- Weight -- Anticipation -- Takes and accents -- Timing, staggers, wave and whip -- Dialogue -- Acting -- Animal action -- Directing -- Review -- The enlarged edition.