Shiyoon Kim, a character designer at Disney Feature Animation, has released an old style guide that he and Glen Keane created for the animators on Tangled. The guide provides some great tips for studying and designing shapes, and features illustrations from Keane and quotes from Bill Moore — Chouinard’s legendary design professor!
Click through to get edumacated.
Comedy for Animators has put up a nice post explaining the difference between personality and character. Animation students, in particular, would do well to check it out. In an industry that uses the term ‘character animation’ almost as often as ‘outsourcing’ and ‘imminent layoffs,’ it’s important to understand the true meaning of the phrase. Click here to read.
Marc Hendry from marcanimation (one of my favorite cartoon Tumblrs) sent a question to the ‘Unofficial Disney Animators Page,’ (one of my favorite Facebook pages) and received a reply from Eric ‘The Genie’ Goldberg (one of my favorite animators)!
The question: What questions do you ask yourselves when you study another animator’s work?
To read Goldberg’s 7 Qs, click here.
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