Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animation Features and Shorts, 2nd Edition

Dedication and Thanks

Jack Hannah, T. Hee, Ken O'Connor, Bill Moore, and Elmer Plummer taught at the California Institute of the Arts’ Character Animation Program so that their knowledge of animation, learned from the ground up during its Golden Age, would not die with them. My notes from their classes, written between 1975 and 1979, are the backbone of this book.

A new generation of students from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning generously permitted me to print some of their class exercises and senior project materials. Sheridan students Bram Cayne, Mincheul Park, and Maya Shavzin's excellent storyboards have been added to the second edition and Kyu-Bum Lee's still from his ...