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September 16th, 2011

Instruction: $100k Animation Drawing Course 03 – Proportions / Check Your Work

NOTE: Do not move on to this lesson unless you have completed Lesson Two

LESSON THREE

Read John Kricfalusi’s introduction to this lesson at…

Animation School Lesson 3: Proportion: Checking Your Copies

Continue working with the three pages from the Preston Blair Book you used in Lessons One and Two…

Draw the characters as accurately as you can using the principles of construction.

Pat attention to how PROPORTION makes a character look the way it does.

Check to see if your proportions are correct by bringing your drawing into Photoshop and comparing it to Preston Blair’s drawing like John K describes in his article.

Look for mistakes. Then draw it again and correct them.

When you are satisfied with your drawings, post them on your blog.

PLEASE NOTE: The procedure for getting your blog listed on this page has changed. Due to the overwhelming response to this course, I don’t have time to add each student’s link by hand. Your assignment will be automatically linked at the bottom of this page if you…

Click on “links to this post” at the bottom of this posting.
Click on “create a link”.
Copy and paste the HTML code into your completed assignment for lesson number 9.
Publish your post.

Your page will automatically be added to the list of links.

Do not delete or edit your posts or change the title after you have posted them. You will need them later to chart your progress.

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

This posting is part of an online series of articles dealing with Instruction.

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 10:05 pm

September 16th, 2011

Instruction: $100k Animation Drawing Course 02 – Squash and Stretch / The Head

NOTE: Do not move on to this lesson unless you have completed Lesson One

LESSON TWO

Read John Kricfalusi’s introduction to this lesson at…

Animation School Lesson 2: Squash & Stretch On The Head

Then READ and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS Preston Blair gives you on this page…

Construct the dog’s head, in various expressions.

Maintain the basic volume of the form you are distorting to create the expressions.

Pay attention to the differences in the way that the cranium and jaw distort.

Pay attention to the way the cheeks move up and down as the character smiles or frowns.

Draw the exercise and look for mistakes. Then draw it again and correct them.

When you are satisfied with your drawings, post them on your blog.

Click on “links to this post” at the bottom of this posting.
Click on “create a link”.
Copy and paste the HTML code into your completed assignment for lesson number 9.
Publish your post.

Your page will automatically be added to the list of links.

Do not delete or edit your posts or change the title after you have posted them. You will need them later to chart your progress.

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

This posting is part of an online series of articles dealing with Instruction.

Labeled: course, instruction, john k, john kricfalusi, preston blair |

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 10:04 pm

September 16th, 2011

Exhibit: Grim Natwick’s Scrapbook Jump Page

Animation Resources is pleased to present an online exhibit of material from the collection of legendary animator, Grim Natwick.

GRIM NATWICK’S SCRAPBOOK

INTRODUCTION

Grim Natwick is undoubtedly one of the most influential animators who ever lived. His career spanned the entire history of animation- from its earliest days in New York to Richard Williams’ Cobbler and the Thief in recent times. Grim worked at many of the major studios- Hearst, Fleicher, Iwerks, Disney, Lantz, UPA, Jay Ward, Melendez and Richard WIlliams. He animated in every style, but was able to maintain his own personal flavor, regardless of whether he was animating for modern studios like UPA or cartoony ones like Fleischer. If one had to define the single element that set his animation apart, it would have to be that his characters always seemed to have a genuine spark of life.

Grim Natwick Grim was a friend of mine. I spent many entertaining afternoons with him on his porch, listening to his memories of "the old days". Grim remembered everything. I once mentioned the name of an assistant animator he worked with at Fleischer. Grim not only recalled working with him more than half a century before, he remembered his bowling scores! When Grim passed away at the ripe old age of 100, his family asked me to organize his artwork. Whenever Grim left a studio, the contents of his desk was emptied into boxes and sent off to his storage locker in Missouri. When all of the boxes arrived for sorting at his apartment in Santa Monica, I was astonished to find thousands and thousands of drawings- amazing examples from a career that spanned more than 75 years.

The drawings that were most precious were the gag drawings and caricatures that grew on the walls of the studios like leaves on a tree. There were also many important sketches documenting Grim’s thought process- the roughs that were usually thrown in the trash after a job was completed. These are the drawings that make up this exhibit. I hope this exhibit gives you a clear idea of who Grim Natwick was as an artist and as a person. -Stephen Worth

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