You can go to animation school, spend a $100,000 and not learn a damn thing about the basics of good animation drawing- OR you can buy a Preston Blair book for $8 and learn it all in a couple months. You pick. If you learn the principles correctly, you will be able to draw in any style today. You’ll be miserable having to dumb down your abilities- but you will be in demand. –John Kricfalusi
How much would it be worth to you to learn to draw for animation from two masters… one from the “golden age” of animation, and one of the top talents in the industry today? Well, you can do that right here on the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Blog with our online drawing course. Overseen by Ren & Stimpy creator, John Kricfalusi and using the long out-of-print original edition of Preston Blair’s handbook on animation techniques, you can’t find a better resource for honing your drawing skills.
$100,000 Animation Drawing Course …for only $8!
- Preston Blair’s Advanced Animation 1st Edition
- John K’s Blog: John K Stuff
- John K’s Online Cartoon School
- 1: Construction/The Head
- 2: Squash & Stretch/The Head
- 3: Proportions/Check Your Work
- 4: 2 Legged Characters/Full Body
- 5: Line of Action/Silhouttes
- 6: Advanced Head Construction
- 7: When Generic Is A Good Thing
- 8: Proportions / Contrasts
- 9: Simplifying Complicated Things
- 10: Models- Substance & Style
A-HAA INSTRUCTION POSTS
Founded by Norman Rockwell in the early 1950s, Famous Artists had three courses… Painting, Illustration/Design and Cartooning. Each course consisted of 24 lessons in three oversized binders covering a wide variety of subjects. To design the courses, Rockwell brought together the top artists of the day… Albert Dorne, Stevan Dohanos, Rube Goldberg, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Willard Mullen, Virgil Partch, and Whitney Darrow Jr, among others. The result was a correspondence course that puts many current university programs to shame. ASIFA-Hollywood has been digitizing these powerful lessons and sharing some of them with you on this website. In addition, we have provided a wealth of educational material written by top cartoonist educators like Grim Natwick and Gene Byrnes; as well as invaluable articles on art theory.
Please Note: We will be reformatting and reposting these articles as time goes by. Please bookmark this page and check back regularly to see what is available.
INDEX OF ARTICLES
- DRAWING
- The W.L. Evans Correspondence Course in Cartooning (1916)
- Willy Pogany’s Drawing Lesson
- Willard Mullin on Animals
- Clair Weeks’ Animal Drawings
- A Drawing Lesson From Walter Lantz
- How To Be A Cartoonist In 16 Easy Pages
- DESIGN
- Composition- How To Make Pictures
- Chad’s Design For Television
- Grim Natwick on Animation Design
- WRITING
- Writing Cartoons 1: The Gag Session
- Writing Cartoons 2: A Continuity Emerges
- George Clayton Johnson on Writing For Television
- REFERENCE
- Nat Falk’s “How To Make Animated Cartoons Part One”
- Nat Falk Part Two: How Animated Cartoons Are Made”
- Nat Falk Part Three: How To Draw And Animate”
- Gene Byrnes’ “Complete Guide to Cartooning” Part One: Newspaper Cartoons
- Gene Byrnes Part Two: Single Panel, Editorial & Sports Cartoons and Comic Books
- Gene Byrnes Part Three: Sketching
- Gene Byrnes Part Four: Magazine Cartoons
- Zim’s Cartoons & Caricatures, Or Making The World Laugh Part One
- Zim’s Cartoons & Caricatures Part Two
- Zim’s Cartoons & Caricatures Part Three
Bill Nolan: Cartooning Self Taught / John K Advice and Eddie’s Boney Finger and John K on Character Design
INBETWEENS ARTICLES
[...] the Hollywood Animation Archive: John K – the visionary behind Ren and Stimpy – talks you through Preston [...]
How does one purchase the Animation Drawing course?
The course is free. It’s a self study course. All you need is a copy of Preston Blair’s Animation book, which you can get from Amazon through the link on the first lesson page.
[...] The Animation Archive has got a ton of valuable illustration / animation resources up on their site for free. [...]
[...] http://animationresources.org/?p=1929 Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. [...]