![]() Here is footage of animator Fred Moore at the Disney Studio working on his light table, drawing Mickey Mouse: ![]() In this brief movie taken at the Disney Studio animator Frank Thomas is seen demonstrating both rolling (on the pegs) and flipping (off the pegs) as he animates and checks his work on Lady and The Tramp : TIP: a rubber band stretched over the pegs helps keep the drawings from falling off the pegs while you roll them. 349 –to - 365 to further familiarize yourself with the use of the Exposure Sheet (aka “the X-sheet” or “the Dope sheet”) and the use of peg bars and flipping.Īgain, you'll notice some overlap of the material you're also reading in the Eric Goldberg and Richard Williams books, but we tend to learn through repetition and I hope the point is not lost on you that all three of these authors writing at different times and different places share a common "language" of traditional animation terms and methodology. 332 – 348 on Keys, Inbetweens, and Timing, so you will better understand the concepts of Key drawings, Inbetween drawings, and Timing/Spacing charts.Īnother OPTIONAL READING would be to read in Chapter 11 of Animation: From Pencils to Pixels by Tony White, from pg. 46 – 67 on Charts & Inbetweens, Keys, Breakdowns, Inbetweens, On 3 Ways to Animate.ĥ.) OPTIONAL READING In Animation: From Pencils to Pixels by Tony White, read Chapter 11 - “2D Animation Basics”, pg. ![]() 36 – 39 on Timing and Spacing, and read pg. it’s a logical system that has been fine tuned over many years of use in professional animation studios and it still works best for traditional character animation, even with all our digital bag of tricks.Ĥ.) Read The Animator’s Survival Kitby Richard Williams, pg. This is not just “old-timey” stuff being reviewed here with a sense of nostalgia for the good ol' days of Walt and the Nine Old Men, etc. Some of the material overlaps with what Eric Goldberg writes on the X-sheet, but it is good to get multiple points of view to better understand essential points.Įven if you are animating paperlessly with a Wacom tablet in TVPaint or some other digital 2D program you will find that using a traditional X-sheet is very useful and gives you more control over your timing. 70 – 77 in the Richard Williams book The Animator’s Survival Kit where he discusses the development and use of The X-Sheet. xvii – xxii on “Definition of Terms” ,Ģ.) Character Animation Crash Course, read pg. We'll be reviewing these readings again)ġ.) Character Animation Crash Course by Eric Goldberg, read the preface pages pg. (you can wait until first week of class to do these readings, or get a jump on things and read them now, before the semester starts.
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