Tips For Drawing: Bad Days Happen
We conclude the recent five-week look at Tips for Drawing with what may be the most important of them all. No matter how good you become at this skill, or how much you grow to love drawing, there will be…
Tips for Drawing: Nothing is Wasted
Continuing with tips for drawing, here’s another thing that I struggled with, and maybe you do too. I hated “wasting” materials. Looking back, it sounds crazy. I would literally feel anxious about “wasting” a page of my sketchbook with a…
Defining the Art: Gesture Drawing
Ask just about any animator in any field of animation and they’ll tell you just how valuable the art of gesture drawing can be. Though this is especially true for 2D hand drawn animation, it applies to every type of…
Tips for Drawing: One Bite At a Time
If you’re like I once was, practicing drawing can be a pain in the butt. You want to be better at it NOW, not after years and years of practice. So maybe you steel yourself to achieve greatness by sitting…
Tips for Drawing: Change What You Want
The bad news: It’s the oldest advice in the world of art because it’s simply the truest of all. You have to practice if you want to get better at drawing. There’s just no way around it. Now for the…
“I know what you did last scene…”
It is one of the first rules you learn when it comes to acting and storytelling: Scenes begin in the middle of your character’s life and his current situation! Whatever you let a character do, you have to look at…
Animation Secret: To Err is Animation
We’re human, we make mistakes. As animators, we are in charge of a thousand details in every piece of work, so we make MORE mistakes than many other people. Mistakes can be seen one of two ways, and this article…
Animation Secret: Animating to Music
Feel the Rhythm! Feel the Beat!
Animation Secret: Walks Simplified
Walks. They are a constant focus for we animators. A never ending quest to innovate, express, and sometimes just get to look right. Walks are some of the toughest challenges in animation, but often (as animators tend to do on…
Tom Bancroft Webcast – 7 Days Only!
Last night Tom Bancroft had a webcast via Animschool, and it can be seen by all for the next 7 days right over here! It’s extremely insightful and a terrific look at his process and work. Plus a little mini-tour…