Action Analysis for Animators

Acknowledgements

Everybody knows that trying to balance all of the commitments we face in life, either the ones we take on voluntarily or those we are pressed into, is a difficult task. I am certainly not alone in that. The particular pressures I attempt to balance include teaching my very bright undergraduate and postgraduate students, maintaining and developing my own animation practice, coping with the ups and downs of family life, and coping with the regular disappointment of unsuccessful fishing trips—oh, and of course, writing this book. For those more capable of achieving such a balancing act I feel nothing but delighted and a more than a little awe.

For me this rather modest book has been something of a mammoth task, one that has left ...