Breakdown

Breakdown is an e-book showing a basic guide to start making frame by frame animations when you're a lazy person.

This is one of three projects I completed during a master's in Digital Publishing, which later evolved into a bigger animal. It's a fixed layout book that attempted to push the limits of what I knew of e-book content at the time.

Most pages have an animated component of some kind. Whether it's secondary motion using simple CSS or a PNG image sequence to show an anime-like fight, I try to make the reader feel at ease and in control of every step of the process. The idea was inspired by Richard Williams' The Animator Survival Kit, which remains one of the primers on the subject even 20+ years after publication.