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(and again, anyone who really wants it can afford to buy the book to get the basic material. It's a way of keeping the material somewhat exclusive. The high price may also deter people from casually posting it to YouTube after all, if one shelled out $1000 dollars of one's own hard earned money for something, then one will tend to treat it as a bit more valuable and exclusive than something that didn't cost so dearly to begin with.
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Once that genie is out of the bottle it won't go back in, so he has to make something back on the series before the pirates start their plundering.
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I also think that the high price is probably motivated by wanting to make a bit of profit on the DVD series from the initial pre-sales before illegal copies start showing up on YouTube and on various bit-torrent download sites. The high price is worth it for the "almost live" instruction from someone of Williams' experience and skill level. So, frankly, if I could afford the DVD set I'd definitely get it. (although if you really, truly work through the book carefully then you'll get the same information.) I can see that these DVD lessons will help the information to sink in for the average person a lot faster than working through the book alone. This tells me that the Tell and Show method in the DVD's is a valuable adjunct to the book. (or don't comprehend clearly what they have read) So they keep making the same mistakes, the same things are missing from their animation which if they had really absorbed what was in the book they would not have made those mistakes. Now, despite the information all being laid out clearly in the book I've found that many students simply do not read. I will say that when I've taught animation I've used "The Animator's Survival Kit" as a text book and sometimes I will assign supplemental assignments that we don't have time to do in class, but are based on sections of the Williams' book. From the clips I've seen on the website I'd say this is done very effectively on the DVD's by intercutting the live lecture material with the animated examples. On the other hand, some people are visual learners, they learn by seeing and example. That tells me they've never actually sat down to read it cover-to-cover.
I'm often dismayed to hear some people shrug it off as "just a bunch of walk cycles", as though that is all that is covered in the book. There is so much good information in there. BUT it requires careful, steady working through the book.
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I think if someone has the book and actually applies themselves to do all the examples shown in the book then they will have learned the fundamentals of how to animate. $30 vs $900 is a big difference for someone like a student. Sure there are some things that seem nice about the DVD, (like actually seeing some animations playing, then being able to analyze them frame by frame), but how much more information is there? Yeah, but it seems to me that a lot of the information from the masterclass is pretty much already in the book.