‘Understanding Animation’ is a excellent book for Animation students, it was written by Paul Wells. Paul Wells is director of Animation in The Animation Academy. He has written many books based on animation including;
-Understanding animation (1998)
-Animation and America (2002)
-Animation: Genre and Authorship (2002)
‘Understanding Animation’ explores different areas of animation such as “what is animation?” as well as how principle was discovered . It also explains a lot of theory used by animation and how it works. It also goes through the narrative concepts, but what interest me the most is section about comedy and humour in animation. This books explains in dept of 25 chapters about how humour is used in animation. The book mentions that “ everyone would claims to have a sense of humour, but it seems that everyone does not possess the same sense of humour” which is a very interesting point, and I have notice this during conversations with my friends, they would watch same movie as me, but they would find it more amusing than I do.
Although I have only read a few pages of this book, I felt that I understand a lot more about animation than I did before, and that humour isn’t just something shallow, and there is a lot to learn. I would strongly recommend this book to all animation students as well as people who have interest in animation theory and just to learn about how hard it is to make a good animation that would amuse a wide range audience.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/Research/staffpages/paulwells/paulwells.htm
Understand Animation - ISBN 0-415-11597-3
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