Now, that doesn’t mean you should be careless about it… You do want them to look close. I’d spend forever on one drawing, not really absorbing and understanding what the goal was.

When I first started copying I made the mistake of trying to make my drawings look exactly the same as in the book, causing frequent frustation. Your copies don’t have to be perfect- what’s most important is that you’re learning how and why something looks the way it does. Don’t trace the examples, but make your own copies of them step by step and compare them to the images given.

Learn about construction, how lines and features wrap around forms, clear and distinct poses, perspective, etc. You may have a lot of awesome ideas in your mind, but that won’t help much if you can’t translate them to paper (or tablet, or whatever you may use). Learning good construction skills has helped me tremendously with my animation and art. It’s where I started when I started getting more serious about animation, and I’d say it has probably been my biggest help. The name’s pretty misleading- It atcually starts form the very basics. I don’t really think there’s any one way, but…Īs far as books go, I’d say Preston Blair’s Advanced Animation is probably the best place to start.

I know I don’t post a lot, but thanks for your patience with me! (especially if you’ve recently followed)įirst off, thanks for the compliment and thanks for following me! School supplies and programs are expensiveĤ) Another project dropped today, and I’ll show yall in the next post! It was a lot of fun, actually.Ģ) There’s another project that should be starting up soon that I’m reeeeally excited for.ģ) Yeah, uh, for real, I’m going to start that patreon thing. The whole short is really so well done, and it’s honestly an honor to be a (small) part of it!ġ) I got to do a little bit of attack animation for upcoming video game Indivisible recently. ^Drawn (and eventually colored) in ToonBoom Harmony. My cut is the explosion near the end, and you can check out some unfinished animation here: I got the chance to work with Studio La Cachette and animate a short cut for it. Hi everyone! I’ve got a couple of posts lined up, but first: Please check out this totally awesome promotional music video for League of Legends’ upcoming championships!

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