animation is animation, whatever the medium. whether you are drawing on paper, model-ling in plasticine, shoving a couple of matchboxes around in front of a bolex camera or animating with a computer to become an animator you will need to understand movement and how to create emotion. you can be a cartoonist or an artist on film, a moving image maker, and there are many beautiful and hilarious examples of this, but they do not necessarily fulfil the definition of animation that this book sets out to demonstrate. this book is written for someone wanting to take the first steps in creating three-dimensional character animation