Lacks some details
The sections covered are well described and illustrated. Even small test-your-understanding quizzes. Composition and camera angle to create mood and feeling are well done. However for a book on anime I feel there are gaps. I would liked to have seen a section on lip synching, and also something on software animation tools and techniques.
Another reference than how to book
This book has lovely art and references in the production of a Japanese cartoon. I however believe this book is more of a supplemental read and reference than anything else. I deducted two stars from the overall rating based on the fact that this book is lacking instruction in animation. People don't use cells and cameras anymore. Animation is done on the computer for the most part.
Recording and repeatedly watching a Japanese Cartoon would provide far more instruction than this book could offer with it's less than 200 pages of instruction and I use the term instruction rather loosely. This book provides an explanation for those quirky techniques in Japanese animation and that is what I mean by instruction.
If you are a fan of Japanese Animation but have no ambition towards pursuing a career in animation this book is a wonderful collector's item. I however recommend for the animation student the Osamu Tezuka Animation books instead. It's about as instructive as a book on Japanese animation ever will be. Also avoid the Anime Mania book by Christopher Hart I loved most of the books in his Manga Mania series but the Anime Mania is more of a keepsake than instruction on the Production of an Anime style cartoon.
I must conclude that watching Pokemon or Anime on Adult Swim would be more instructive than this book.
Those Japanese cartoons would show you how to animate those comical motions in Japanese animation.
Really Informative and Interesting!
This is book is Excelent! I love it! It tells you alot about the process of making anime in Japan. It gives you a informative run down of the perspective of screen shots, coloring the animation, the background images, the tools and equipment used and the movement of the charcters. I found it very interesting. I think that anyone could use this and pick up the basics of anime and try and create their own. I recomend this to those who have a passion to become a animator (like me) or just love anime and want to know how it is made!
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