Reference! for Animation
It’s my last post of 2010 and I thought I’d post a few videos of the things I’ve been watching recently. Animation is about story, acting, performance, drama and the relationship between audience and performer (the animator). And then there’s the technical stuff. I’ve been reading Eric Goldberg’s ‘Character Animation Crash Course’ book over the Christmas break and getting my head a little more wrapped around the process of roughing in drawings concentrating on the performance, and then cleaning them up later in Tie-Down. More on that another day!
For now, here’s a few people / things from outside the world of animation that all animators could learn a thing or two from.
Maurice Marcel – one of the great mime artists
Japanese Bunraku puppets
A street performer in Barcelona. This guy is a master!
And finally, Buster Keaton in ‘Battling Butler’ , one of the old silent movie greats from the Chaplain era
All of these videos are packed full of movement that has meaning and allows the audience to clearly read the action that is taking place. Great stuff to analyse and learn about timing, poses, and drama.
That last one reminded me of an old Chuck Jones Warner Bro’s cartoon from 1948 called ‘Rabbit Punch’. I can’t embed it as WordPress only supports Youtube and Vimeo videos, but you can WATCH IT HERE!
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