Richard Williams
1933 - 2019
The Animator's Survival Kit Animated
Imogen Sutton
Richard Williams
The Animator's Survival Kit - Animated is about how things move, and specific work methods used to make characters live, breathe, think and give a sustained commanding performance. Williams demonstrates his points with drawing, performance and over 400 specially animated examples - many from his best-selling book. 16 DVD Set Contents: 1. Starting Right 2. Timing and Spacing 3. Working Methods 4. More Timing More Spacing 5. Building Walks 6. Flexibility in a Walk 7. Sneaks, Runs, and Animal Action 8. Flexibility 9. Overlapping Action and Weight 10. Takes 11. Vibrates 12. Accents 13. Dialogue 1 14. Dialogue 2 15. Giving the Performance 16. Putting it all Together
The Animator's Survival Kit Animated
Persistence of Vision
Kevin Schreck
Richard Williams, Omar Ali-Shah
It was to be the greatest animated film of all time. Not just an eye-opener, but a game-changer. Richard Williams demanded nothing less, investing nearly three decades into his movie masterpiece. From as early as 1964 he ploughed most of the profits right back into his pet project, a feature inspired by the Arabian Nights and provisionally known as Mullah Nasruddin. He assembled a team of inspired young artists—and brought in the best Hollywood craftsmen to teach them—and devised what would be the most elaborate, kaleidoscopic, mind-boggling visual sequences ever committed to celluloid. Years passed. Potential financiers came and went. Work continued. But it was only after Roger Rabbit that Williams had a studio budget to corroborate the munificence of his imagination.
Persistence of Vision
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A Christmas Carol
Richard Williams
Alastair Sim, Michael Redgrave
Ebenezer Scrooge, a skinflint visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve. It's up to them to help the old crab see the error of his ways. And they do, to the delight of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim.
A Christmas Carol
The Thief and the Cobbler
Richard Williams
Vincent Price, Matthew Broderick
It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
The Thief and the Cobbler
The Sailor and the Devil
Errol Le Cain, Richard Williams
Alex Bradford
The great illustrator Errol Le Cain animated this rare short film for the Richard Williams Studio in 1967, as his "apprentice work." Professor Alex Bradford sings the catchy gospel soundtrack. (from TheThiefArchive on YouTube)
The Sailor and the Devil
