This book teaches you exactly how to become a Master Animator—whether you ultimately plan to use pencils, computers, drawing tablets or rigged characters. It’s a complete course, being a collection of 48 masterclasses gleaned from the author’s 50 years of experience of top-level animating, teaching, and filmmaking. It will also train you in the value and application of observational gesture drawing. This book of masterclasses by a master of the art, Tony White, is entirely designed to be THE definitive reference book for students learning how to make things move well as well as how to create films once you know how to do so. A book for everyone: : It is a perfect manual to take you from raw beginner to proven animated filmmaker. : It is an ideal companion to supplement your full-time educational studies, which, no doubt, is overly based on software technology. : It is a comprehensive archive of animation tips and techniques that will enable you to take your work to the next level. : It is a book that can be the ultimate curriculum and study program, enabling your own students to become the master animators of today and tomorrow.