Animate the world around you! Follow along with veteran Disney effects artist Mauro Maressa as he teaches you how to create and animate natural phenomena like water, fire, smoke, lightning, lava, mud, and wind. Essential Effects will help you plan, draw, design, and animate traditional 2D effects, taking your ideas all the way from rough sketch to finished product. Using a series of full-color visual breakdowns and diagrams, this book gives you a clear, concise understanding of what it takes to create credible, compelling effects in your own projects.
Key Features
Build a strong foundation of observation and drawing skills that you can rely on for the rest of your career
Tips and tricks for applying classic effects principles to computer-animated and CG projects
Over 400 full-color images and diagrams for clear step-by-step learning
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Maker of Images –
Covers many of the techniques for FX animation. Highly recommended
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Brianna –
This book is a must have if you’re a visual effects artist. It’s full of great insight on how artists maneuver through drawing the elements!
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Blackwing602 –
The title is ‘Essential Effects: Water, Fire, Wind, and More’ and in fact this book is an ESSENTIAL reference book on how to animate classical, hand drawn effects. Master efx animator Mauro Maressa has packed this book full off his knowledge acquired in a 40 year career in animation working at the top animation studios. Highly recommended.
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Marie Lum –
The best book to have if you’re an animator and you want to get into effects animation. This is a treasure trove! There are so many resources on character animation out there but effects animation is harder to come by, so I really appreciate this book. So much good knowledge here.
Maker of Images –
Covers many of the techniques for FX animation. Highly recommended
Brianna –
This book is a must have if you’re a visual effects artist. It’s full of great insight on how artists maneuver through drawing the elements!
Blackwing602 –
The title is ‘Essential Effects: Water, Fire, Wind, and More’ and in fact this book is an ESSENTIAL reference book on how to animate classical, hand drawn effects. Master efx animator Mauro Maressa has packed this book full off his knowledge acquired in a 40 year career in animation working at the top animation studios. Highly recommended.
Marie Lum –
The best book to have if you’re an animator and you want to get into effects animation. This is a treasure trove! There are so many resources on character animation out there but effects animation is harder to come by, so I really appreciate this book. So much good knowledge here.