The Principles of Animation, Anime Studio Curriculum Guide

AnimeStudioRocks · Post by **AnimeStudioRocks** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:34 am

Hi,
Does anyone here have the "The Principles of Animation, Anime Studio Curriculum Guide"?
This one:
http://contentparadise.com/productDetails.aspx?id=13926

Is it any good?

AmigaMan · Post by **AmigaMan** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:19 pm

I got it a while ago but it was on sale for about $20 I'm sure.
For a beginner it would be good as it covers the principles of animation (obviously) and sets you exercises to do in AS. I don't think it's worth $69 though. You'd be much better off just buying Richard Williams 'Animator's Survival Kit' or one of Brian Lemay's excellent books. 'Character Animation and Lip Sync' being particularly good.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:31 pm

AmigaMan wrote:For a beginner it would be good as it covers the principles of animation (obviously) and sets you exercises to do in AS. I don't think it's worth $69 though.

That price is because it includes Anime Studio Debut 6. Maybe they sell it alone, but I don't know really.

barryem · Post by **barryem** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:20 am

If you get it without Debut it's $49. You have to give them a serial number to get it. I'm considering it.

Barry

AnimeStudioRocks · Post by **AnimeStudioRocks** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 5:45 am

selgin wrote:
AmigaMan wrote:For a beginner it would be good as it covers the principles of animation (obviously) and sets you exercises to do in AS. I don't think it's worth $69 though.
That price is because it includes Anime Studio Debut 6. Maybe they sell it alone, but I don't know really.

They do sell it alone for $49.99, but without the disk. The price still seems too high without the disk and software. Also, the disk has exercise the files. It seems that you need to buy it with the disk if you want to follow along with the book and files.

It would be nice if they would offer the book with just the exercise files ( no software ) for a more reasonable price.

InfoCentral · Post by **InfoCentral** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:43 am

AnimeStudioRocks wrote:It would be nice if they would offer the book with just the exercise files ( no software ) for a more reasonable price.

Yeah, it would be quite useless without the exercise files. You would be a lot better off getting a book on animation from Amazon then.

jdabel · Post by **jdabel** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:25 am

AnimeStudioRocks wrote:
selgin wrote:
AmigaMan wrote:For a beginner it would be good as it covers the principles of animation (obviously) and sets you exercises to do in AS. I don't think it's worth $69 though.
That price is because it includes Anime Studio Debut 6. Maybe they sell it alone, but I don't know really.
They do sell it alone for $49.99, but without the disk. The price still seems too high without the disk and software. Also, the disk has exercise the files. It seems that you need to buy it with the disk if you want to follow along with the book and files.

It would be nice if they would offer the book with just the exercise files ( no software ) for a more reasonable price.

If you buy only the digital book version The Files are ADDED !

InfoCentral · Post by **InfoCentral** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:38 pm

jdabel wrote:If you buy only the digital book version The Files are ADDED !

Are the Video tutorials for each lesson added as well?

InfoCentral · Post by **InfoCentral** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:41 pm

jdabel wrote:If you buy only the digital book version The Files are ADDED !

Are the Video tutorials for each lesson added as well?

In looking at the content it looks like the tutorial guide that Hash gives you for FREE when you purchase Animation Master. I think SM would be doing themselves a much better service if they released the digital book version for FREE to purchasers of their product.

versluis · Post by **versluis** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:03 am

I'm sure they are, the download is nearly 1GB and that can't all be the book with exercise files.

I'm tempted... but $20 would be more appropriate I think, as would be a link o the existence of this product on the AS product page.

InfoCentral · Post by **InfoCentral** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:28 am

Yeah, check out this and then check out the Animation Master manual complete with videos and you will see they are very similar except that Hash gives you them for FREE!

NeedyN00b · Post by **NeedyN00b** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 11:58 am

versluis wrote:I'm sure they are, the download is nearly 1GB and that can't all be the book with exercise files.

I'm tempted... but $20 would be more appropriate I think, as would be a link o the existence of this product on the AS product page.

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