Form, Flow and Force: Prologue by Richard Williams

In The Animator's Survival Kit, Richard Williams stresses the importance for animators to go to life drawing classes as it is a learning platform for animators to study the human figure and motions. According to him, figure drawing is a lifelong learning process that animators must take so that they can create fluid animation or even achieve realism in their animation. Through decades of his career as an animator, Richard Williams has perfected his drawing skill, and realised a childhood dream to create an animation based a story that he had thought of when he was 15. The animation is titled 'Prologue', which is about battle to death between a Spartan and an Athenian warrior. It is drawn frame by frame with realistically rendered pencil drawing. The main focus of the animation is to showcase his expertise in animating through producing sequential drawings of the realistic motion.