DRAWING A LINE ON GREATNESS!
Posted by tonymaticus at 4/28/2009 8:01 AM 
Categories: Recommendation
Tags: animated gesture Walt Stanchfield animated pose Don Hahn Drawn to life
Categories: Recommendation
Tags: animated gesture Walt Stanchfield animated pose Don Hahn Drawn to life
All the finest animators say that it is from the 'pose' (often known as the 'gesture') that great animation comes. Without great key poses there can be no great animation. The pose it all... it defines 'direction', 'emotion', 'personality' and 'intent'. Suprising it is therefore that much animation today neglects this, even at the professional level!
The most accomplished of animators will often sketch-out their key poses on paper first. These are usually refered to as 'thumbs'... meaning 'thumbnail drawings'. It is in the thumbs that the most successful key poses emerge and even the best of 3D animators follow this sketched thumbs principle too.
How great it is therefore to find a wonderful addition to the animator's library with the recently published "Drawn To Life" books (volumes 1 and 2). Editied by respected Hollywood producer, Don Hahn, and published by Focal Press, these books present to the animation world the wonderful lectures that master Walt Stanchfield, delivered to the Disney faithful in greater times gone by. We can only tip our caps to the wonderful gesture Don has made to the animation community by devoting so much time and passion to bringing us these masterworks to our attention.
Needless to say, I thoroughly recommend both volumes of "Drawn To Life" to every serious animator. Indeed, as with Richard Williams' "The Animator's Survival Kit" I would say that these books are 'gold dust' to any serious student animator, aspiring to the animated magic that the Disney animators of yore were capable of producing.
Tony. :^{)}=-
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