Learn to Animate!
A hands-on, stop-motion activity book
by Kevin Parry
Easily learn animation by actually doing it! This activity book full of clever templates is designed to guide aspiring animators through the basics of animation. All you’ll need are some common household objects and a smart phone or tablet.
Current paths to learning animation include expensive software, densely-worded textbooks, and lecture-based YouTube videos. Most enthusiasts (especially younger ones) quickly give up because they become lost.
How to Animate eliminates the cost barrier to entry, exchanges text for simple-to-understand motion guides, and teaches by doing. Readers will confidently learn animation through hands-on fun and quickly experience the delight of bringing inanimate objects to life!
☝️ Using a coin and string, readers can easily animate a swinging pendulum.
Bring Household Objects to Life!
By moving common household objects along easy-to-follow templates, readers quickly grasp the (typically difficult to understand) timing and spacing of animated movement.
Kevin Parry is a stop-motion animator and visual effects artist with 15 years of experience in the animation industry. Based in Toronto.
He creates handmade animation and mind-bending video illusions for a social media audience of 9M+ followers.
His credits include animating on stop-motion feature films such as LAIKA’s ‘Kubo & the Two Strings’ and most recently making social media content for brands such as Nike, Google, Amazon, LEGO, Apple, Intel, and YouTube.