From the course: Animating in 2D: Breakdowns and Thumbnails
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- [Instructor] So I hope you found this course useful. Now, if you did, and you're still interested in learning more, I strongly recommend the Richard Williams book The Animator's Survival Kit. This book has two editions, the original version, but there's also the expanded edition, which you see here, and it's got a few dozen extra pages, and it's really well worth getting. I've also covered the essential ideas of breakdowns and thumbnails throughout many of my courses because it's the way I work, and you'll see many more examples of this in my tips and tricks course, and you'll always see me using thumbnails or planning for my scenes. So if you want to see more examples of how this is put together, I really recommend this. If you watch my 2D animation course character and attitude walk cycles, you'll see how this principle gets applied to walks and how we use this system to create really interesting character walks that get us out of that boring, traditional walk cycle that we've all…
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