I feel like watching these videos with Glen Keane have really made me truly understand the importance of draftsmanship when it comes to being an animator.
I agree wholeheartedly. I did a little hand drawn stuff in the 80's. Then stopped doing animation, returning now and excited, I have time to explore the medium, no agenda, no deadlines.
amazing; I met his assistant :D my friend went to an animation school and I learned a lot from her: Rough, clean-up, in-between, story board :o) so cool I admire Glen very much
Tangled is brilliant, absolutely! While exiting the cinemas I looked back at the screen and practically yelled "Omg Glen Keane! Legend!" coz I saw him in the credits :D Nobody else had a clue..
I hope i can get to that level one day. Currently working on a long monologue of one of my characters and when i watch the 9 seconds i have fully inbetweened i find it so incredible that my drawings move and think. Despite that i know i'll get better and look back at it and notice all it's weaknesses, that's something i absolutely love. I love seeing something i was happy with and realizing just how much better i currently am. Animation truly is an incredible craft
Utubeblows has an excellent point, you must start with the basics before you can learn this, and use fancy equipment. Also take a life drawing course, and study the drawing of the figure in motion, it's an essential to grasp realism in form. I think it's really cool you're interested in hand drawn animation, as a 2-d animation student I'm happy to see people still curious about this art form. Finally if you ever decide to take a course, you will start by learning in-betweening and timing!.Cheers
I'm wondering if he draws a bit too fast. He makes a lot of scribbles, which is going to put stress on the cleanup artists. I've tried this approach many times but I'm starting to suspect Don Bluth's technique vastly superior
@Aye Yuh Aye Yuh That's interesting! Actually I just recently read Eric Goldberg's book Cartoon Animation Crashcourse and it advices to clean the drawings on a completely new paper for the inbetweener if they are too rough to clean up on that same paper (with the kneaded eraser and all). I guess it's only a question of whether your roughs are too rough to clean up on the same paper or not, but like you said it seems not to be as big issue as I thought. Still, When you compare what rough animation means for a project like Klaus or Don Bluth animation to what Keane and many Disney animators used to draw, it seems almost like two different things - one is super clear and almost immediately clean linework, while on the other extreme we have forceful and gestural lines searching for the right form.
Droools............ Thanks so much for this! :) Is it weird I know his neice from art school? :/ I really wanna meet him and ask him some questions!!! Sigh... a dream come true and I just missed my chance. Thanks again! One of the Most amazing animator's ever!!!! ^-^
@moonmystique oh wait, maybe it is, but it could just be onion skin paper. But I think you're wrong, there is nothing wrong with drawing key frames with viewing other key frames.
check out chromacolor website - they do all the different field sizes of paper, light boxes, peg bars, colorase pencils etc. -Check out FAVELADOS, one of the latest grad films from the AIB!
I have questions, could someone help me? So he draws everything traditionally? (with paper and pencil) what program can you use to add all the pictures and drawings and then make them appear so fast so they look animated?
As a non artist, I think that his drawings are pretty bad, I think i can honestly draw better than that. Why is this considered good work of art by so many people?
God Samrat These are super quick. He can do a lot better work when given more time. This is still considered impressive, however, because of how quick it is. They are rough, yes, but you can still tell what it is, they've got some form on them, and he does them really quickly.
Pencil tests are supposed to be sketchy and fluid. It's more about the poses and execution of movement rather than a perfectly clean character drawing. Those are more for the animation cells that are going to be colored later on. Even then you can still the "sketchy" effect in movies like the Aristocats and 101 Dalmations.
