Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Contents |
Front Cover; Rowland B. Wilson's Trade Secrets: Notes on Cartooning & Animation; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Tradition and Originality; The Remedy Paradox; Excellence and Perfection; The Spirit of Sacrifice; Knowledge, Wisdom and Information; Introduction-The Flow Charts; The Flow Charts: Interpretation, Composition and Rendition; Interpretation; The Act; The Scene; Setting, Set Dressing and Viewpoint; Time and Season, Atmosphere and Weather; Light; Players, Costume and Props, Business and Gesture; Caricature; Proportion, Metaphor and Emotional Heightening. |
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Perspective, Organic and Geometric and Gesture DistortionComposition; Dominance, Grid, Rhythm and Reverse Negatives; Shape; Overlap, Focus and Eye Path, Direction, Perspectives and Vignette; Tone; Notan, Silhouette, Massing of Values, Lost and Found, Skipped Tones; Texture; Contrast, Collage, Line and Tone and Decoration; Color; Value Scheme, Hue Scheme and Refraction; Rendition; Techniques; Resist-Ink, Airbrush, Aquapasto, Spot Shadows, Mottling and Spatter; Line; Signature, Self-Line, Complement and Highlight; Shape; Signature, Edges, Negative, Coming Apart and Line Hatch; Tone. |
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Surfaces, Articulated, the Extremes, Fat and LeanColor; Irradiation, Hue Families and Caricature; About the Logos; Brief Outline; 1-The Act; Story; Storytelling: The Point of View; Where to Put the Camera?; The Aspects of Pictorial Storytelling; Subject Matter; Chain of Events; Story Rendition; Story Themes; Story Focal Points; Story Focus; Treatment; Forms of Storytelling; Animation vis-á-vis the Storytelling Forms; What Would Adapt to Animation?; More Thoughts on "Story"; Systems Within Systems; The Play within a Play; 2-The Scene; Setting the Scene: the Place. |
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Useful Places for Comedy DisruptionEvery Shot is Subjective; Examples; 3-Caricature; Caricature; Possible Effects; Gesture and Expression; Metaphor; Form; Contrast; Heightening; Light for Caricature; Color in Caricature; Character Drawing; 4-Composition; Breadth and Detail (Resolution); The "OAK" Formula for Dynamic Picture-Making; Blick; Examples of Blicks; The Style of a Blick; The Composition of a Blick; Blick as Related to Townscape; 5-Shape, Line and Tone; Line; Silhouette; How Tone Dominates Color; Light Quality Created by Value Steps; Notan; The Unique Puzzling Abstract Composition. |
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=Compound Notan=Figure/Ground versus Compound Notan vis-à-vis the Three Qualities for Beauty; 6-Color; Color Ideas; Optical Mixing; "The Soup"; Choice of Colors for a Mix; Some Color Mixtures for Painting the Sky; Useful Colors; Color Advice from Edgar Payne; Charting the Hue, Value, Temperature and Intensity of a Color; Neutralizing a Color/Changing Value; Neutral Colors; Art Nouveau Color Schemes; 7-Rendition; Transparent and Opaque Watercolor Techniques; 8-The Process; Working Notes from the Studio; Lessons from "The Paisley Whale"; Working Notes for Cartoons, Illustrations and Animation. |
Summary |
Animation doesn't come with instructions; Rowland B. Wilson demanded guidelines. Trade Secrets offers a never before published peek into the personal journals of Rowland B. Wilson (1930-2005), a legend in the world of Cartooning, Advertising, Illustration and Animation. Trade Secrets is a compendium of tips, €tricks, €philosophies and techniques garnered over a lifetime of professional animation and artistry. Study one-on-one with a mentor whose Walt Disney film credits include The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Atlantis and Treasure Planet. These writings represent the quintessential refresh. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
Wilson, Rowland B. / 1930-2005. |
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Cartooning -- Technique.
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Animation (Cinematography) -- Technique.
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Dessin humoristique -- Technique. |
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Animation (Cinéma) -- Technique. |
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Animation (Cinematography) -- Technique |
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Cartooning -- Technique |
Added Author |
Lemieux-Wilson, Suzanne.
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Added Title |
Trade secrets |
Other Form: |
Print version: Wilson, Rowland B. Trade Secrets : Rowland B. Wilson's Notes on Design for Cartooning and Animation. Burlington : Elsevier Science, ©2012 9780240817347 |
ISBN |
9780240817354 (electronic bk.) |
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0240817354 (electronic bk.) |
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9781136127250 |
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1136127259 |
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0240817346 |
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9780240817347 |
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9781136127267 (electronic bk.) |
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1136127267 (electronic bk.) |
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