AndyCLon opened this issue on Apr 18, 2009 · 24 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 20 April 2009 at 7:42 PM
Quote - Reading related books is an excellent idea. I've been reading "Timing for Animation" (Harold Whitaker & John Halas). It's about 30 years old, and it's written for cel animation (but John Lasseter recommends it, so I'm sold.) Reading it makes me want to get to the keyboard and try all kinds of things.
Exactly. I'm reading "The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki" (Cavallaro, D) at the moment, and I've been very lucky with my seminar tutor this year, the guy's a genius, and so eclectic he can talk about such a wide range of related subjects, and inspire and inform you on so much stuff. But reading well written books can help give you insights into various artists, their methods, intentions and the deeper meanings often hidden beneath a simple seeming surface.
I am just so glad I took this course.
By the way, I've never yet found any animation to be quick, not if it's got any ambitions to be good. My animations have the ambitions, but unfortunately I often fail on the execution.
It hasn't (yet) stopped me from trying.
I'm going to have to buy Richard Williams' "Animators Survival Kit" - just continually getting it from the library just isn't working.
Oh, when I talk about "Good animation" I don't mean that animation of the eyes on Miss Nancy's character's face isn't good, & it is animated, but I'm thinking more of full animations, not icons or avatars, something with a little length and a purpose. I just wish I could come up with something.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
