The Animator’s Survival Kit
by Richard Williams · Richard Williams
Richard Williams distills decades of directing hand-drawn animation into a working manual of timing charts, spacing, walks, runs, weight, and overlapping action. Animators use it as a reference for how many frames a given movement actually needs.
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