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2009-11-14T15:57:00.000-08:00

Notes from " Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston "

2009-05-21T10:18:00.000-07:00

KEYS TO EMOTION IN AN ANIMATION

1. Is the character doing what the director wants in the sequence?

2. Is the character doing only one thing at a time?

3. Is the character putting over the story point in the scene you are doing?

4. Is the character acting as if there is something going on in his mind?

5. vDoes the character appear to be doing something on his own?

6. Can the audience tell what the character is thinking?

7. How does what the character is doing effect what the audience is thinking?

8. Does the character have appeal?

9. Is it passionate? Is passion going into the drawing and coming out of the character?

10. Is it the simplest way to do it?

11. Have you made small story sketches of one important character to be sure everything is working before

12. you make a lot of drawings? Would any one else besides your mother like what you have done?

2009-05-21T10:10:00.000-07:00

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John Canemaker wrote a book over a decade ago, on the Nine Old Men that is just a wonderful must read for aspiring animators. even if you aren't a crazy aspiring animation historian like I am, you can get a lot out of it. Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"[Ward] Kimball studied all the performing arts, including ballet. Once he proved to his doubting daughter Kelly (then a preteen studying dance) that he knew all the classical ballet foot positions. "He did everything perfect," she discovered with amazement. "He had his body right, he had his arms right. I realized this is a man who watched ballet and he really is what he says you have to be as an animator. You just have to know everything!"

"If you're going to spend two days on the scene, you ought to spend the first day with your arms folded staring at a blank piece of paper. Because until you can visualize the thing and know exactly what you're going to do with it, you can't draw it."

-- Ham Luske

Every drawing in your scene has to be acting. For example, Laurence Olivier, wouldn't just have acting on poses -- he moves between them. His thought processes are working between poses, and his acting is continued through every frame of film. That's the way you have to do it. So many guys will just use the extreme poses to show their acting and that isn't correct.

-- Fred Moore

The whole thing with creativity is that there's something new to do out there. Why not give it a try?

-- Marc Davis

A WanNABe Animator ! !

2009-05-20T12:48:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody !

its good to see u here.