The Encyclopaedia of animation techniques
By Richard Taylor

The Encyclopaedia of animation techniques has a chapter on ‘comic’ and animations whose soul purpose is to induce laughter from their audience. The chapter is full of different examples of animations of various styles.
Although it has very little in depth analysis into the individual aspects of each example, it contains images to serve as technical examples and it has been primarily useful as a point to conduct further research into the various different examples it presents.
It shows some of the different ways that animation use humour, whether it be through the over exaggerated character design as seen in animations such as the 1994 animation ‘sleepy guy’ that used a oversized head to help emphasize its facial features. Or cartoons like Warner bros famous ‘loony toons’ that use a hyper unrealistic approach, in which the world reacts in a humorously silly way.
I have also seen that animations can use the same techniques as live action film in which to get its points across, there are a number of animations that use techniques such as parody or adult humour to give a humorous outcome. On the other side of things animations have the advantage of having there own amative styles to make jokes with, a good example of this would be ‘South Park’ that uses a combination of adult humour and comically bad animation, this has been hugely successful in its reception. Another example is ‘Aaagh Animation’ that uses a combination of its strange stop motion animation and the pure bizarreness of the world it portrays
Overall The Encyclopaedia of Animation Techniques is not the most useful book I have come across. But this small section has been essential for my essay.