drawn to life

[Daveb0t]

I cant find a good link but

"Drawn to Life" is a behomoth two-volume collection of master-animator Walt Stanchfield's lectures.  I haven't gotten my hands on a hard copy myself, but from the bits I've read (from one of my teacher's copy's) it makes the animator's survival kit look like a pamphlet of the basics.

Still I haven't gotten my hands on it, butfrom what I read it dwells far into character creation, transmitting emotion, and flushing action into expression.

So yea

[rtil]

why can't you always make nice posts like this instead of the shit you post in general

[Daveb0t]

I gotta be me

[Fuzz]

I was expecting the Comedy Central show...

[lenko]

why can't you always make nice posts like this instead of the shit you post in general

[Daveb0t]

[ansel]

drawn to life is a vidya gaem ROFLMAOWTFBBQ

[Daveb0t]

Just got it in the mail and spent the past hour working my way through a bit of it.

Its much much MUCH bulkier and dense than the survival kit, but its wonderfully detailed and thought provoking.  As I said, its much more character oriented, but its also more oriented to the animator's thought process.

You guys should pick up your own copies for sure.

[shura]

that sounds awesome, but what do you mean by "oriented to the animator's thought process"? like the ideas for a story/characters/scenery?

[Daveb0t]

here's an excerpt:
"If had to draw a burnt match would you say to yourself, "Okay this is the anatomy of a match." [picture of a straight match with a thin stalk near the tip]  No, you would say, "This is a match whose anatomy has been burnt and twisted an agonizing shape."  A shape that hurts deeply if I imagine myself in that state.  If I feel what has happened to that match has happened also to me - then this is the feeling that I have draw, to portray."
And that chapter goes on about convey feelings through gesture.

It puts alot of things to words that are hard to convey.

[billy]

drawn to life is a vidya gaem ROFLMAOWTFBBQ

dhats what iw as thinginkin