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Eric Goldberg’s Character Animation Crash Course!
 June 20, 2008 4:19 am
The long-awaited how-to book from master animator and director Eric Goldberg is almost here. Character Animation Crash Course! will be released next month and is currently available to pre-order on Amazon for $23. Here’s what Eric tells us about the book:
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Very cool–I’m definitely buying it. I had the honor of watching Eric Goldberg draw in person, he is truly one of the giants in animation!!!
Before I pre-order, any possibility of Eric doing a NYC book signing?
Wow! I cannot wait to pick up a copy!!!
I didn’t even know Eric Goldberg was making a book….
Awesome! Eric Goldberg’s style has always been an inspiration!
Can’t wait to get a hold of this book!
Hot diggity daffodils!
An Early Xmas!!!!! Yaayyyyyyyyyy! I look forward to his section on working to music! Eric is a cartoon genius!!!
Now people will have another book to copy besides Preston Blair’s classic one! :))
Wow! It’s time to start saving up! Hopefully I can find a copy here in Ahmedabad, and it can find a place next to my copy of The Animator’s Survival Kit.
Can’t wait!
Just made the pre order! =D
Can’t wait ’till it’s released.
Thanks a lot for the heads up.
Wow! Eric Goldberg is still alive! And he’s written a book! He just became the Preston Blair of now.
I have copies of some of Eric’s notes that I got when working at Disney, but nowhere near 240 pages of them. Can’t wait!
Beautiful LIVELY drawings and a really attractive page layout! I just placed a pre-order, too. Thanks for the heads-up
Eric’s notes have been circulating for decades in the London studios. Can’t wait to get my hands on the printed and bound, yay!
ooOoooo Pre-Ordered that. Can’t wait till it ships!
Fantastic! I remember getting a hold of a few pages of Eric Goldberg notes way back from Animation Meat. Just a few pages and they taught me so much about animation timing.
This is great news ! I’ve been waiting for this book for years. (I too have the xeroxed notes from a few of Eric’s lectures given during my time at Disney, which are an inspiration, but I’m sure the book expands upon the notes and is a complete treatment of the subject. ) I’m headed over to Amazon now to place my pre-order.
Looks great Eric!!!!!
SOLD! See you at Comic-Con…
This is great! His bootlegged notes were my favorite after the Preston Blair books and I personally liked them better than Illusion of life and the Williams book….and I love those.
Just when I thought I had all the books I need. Must have!
The race is on!
Let’s see if Eric Goldberg can spawn as many elementary school animal mascots as Preston Blair!
“Wow! Eric Goldberg is still alive!”
I’m holding out hope that that’s a joke. Why in the world is somebody thinking he may have died?
Wow! It just seems animation information/education keeps getting better and better…I can’t wait to buy this book! One more thing to study, refer to, and geek out on… :)
Wow!! I really love the drawings and I remember him on the Looney Tunes DVDs- I liked his comments. I hadn’t heard of his notes before- hopefully this’ll be another classic animation book! I can’t wait to see it!
Now That’s Exciting! Congrats Eric, I’m picking up mine!
Man, I can’t wait for this book!!!
I met Eric Goldberg when I was 10 at the Disneyland Hotel… He’s the one that got me wanting to get into animation in the first place, so I’ll definitely be into this book.
Awesome
Wow!
I look forward to this !
I have been patiently waiting for a book from him for close to 10 years.The 5th generation xeroxed copy of his notes are wearing kind of thin.Congrats to Eric for finishing this and sharing it with us all!
This looks like it’s going to be great! Think of all the office toner that could have been saved had this book come out sooner :)
Awesome!
“Think of all the office toner that could have been saved had this book come out sooner :)”
Yes, but who cares what the office pays? ;3
I had the good fortune to be Eric’s assistant for a few weeks at Pizazz Pictures about 20 years ago. I’d never seen anything like his work and haven’t since. If this book has half of what I learned doing those few scenes, it is well worth the money. I’m reaching for my credit card…….
I’m going to Amazon right now!
And I thought speed smears were only used in TV animation.
This book looks so good that I’ve already made a test animation with the preview page.
Man I’m geeking out I didn’t even know he was finally making a book. Now if I only had the money to preorder it D:.
has anyone got their book yet ?
i pre ordered from amazon…still havent got my copy yet, whereas on the site it says it come sout july 15th…
DON’T PANIC! The book is at all the warehouses (and has been since July 14th). There are physical copies at Samuel French Bookstore (and you can web order them as well). Eventually, Amazon will get around to pressing the “ship now” button to their suppliers, and the pre-orders will be filled.
thats awesome !
thanks eric…i still cant believe my eyes you just answered my question…
big fan here… hope to meet you in person someday…
I m still waiting for this book….I cant find..it…anywhere..Sold out. thats wht i get…
I have this now, good book, but I think Williams’ is better for the simple reason that this is more of the direct pose to pose cartoony squashy and stretchy stuff whereas Williams delves deeper into stuff like succesive breaking of joints and the combination of straight ahead and pose to pose. This is however a very good book to begin with, it’s more accessible.
Hi Eric – Maybe you can tell me why the CD included with your book “Character Animation Crash Cours” does not want to work in my imac? Is the disc cross-platformed or for PCs only? Please let me know.
Thanks,
Ed Martel