Some quick notes about poses in response to a question from my ask box.
I don’t think I’m consistently successful at drawing human poses that aren’t stiff or unnatural, but maybe there’s something here that will be helpful to someone anyway.
Tips on color & light from The Artist’s Guide to Color by Wendon Blake
Wow this is…. actually super helpful! Reboggling for future reference :U
I love these notes. Old school disney animation guides had the same rules for storyboarding and it’s all very very true.
The whole film took me altogether about 5 grueling months (usually 10-12hours a day) to do. I often felt my butt was going to grow into the chair I usually sat at.Â
Please note that this was simply my way of doing my film to achieve the soft-shaded style I wanted; there are many other ways of doing this and some are a lot faster with different results~! :)
- My film on DeviantArt | My film on Vimeo
- My film gifs on Tumblr
- You can see my storyboard animatic here (although the original had music, but like I mentioned, my placeholder music was by Joe Hisaishi, you know, Miyazaki’s composer, so it’s not really legal to upload it).Â
This tut differs a bit from my dA version, because tumblr lets me put the combination of gifs and jpegs :D.Â
Here’s a book that will really help you start animating:
here’s some books that are good for composition, storytelling and colours:
- Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
- The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation
- Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts
I hope these helped
I ask that no one removes the credit or source for this tutorial/guide please. thanks :)
here, have wings.
Good Resources:
Puget Sound Wing and Tail Collection (where all the wing images I used came from)
Animating Bird Flight (great resource for ALL artists)
Faces (focus on raptors)
More Faces (focus on straight bills)
Just when you thought you knew everything about boobs… NSFW?
My darling friend Chizzi mentioned that there are a lot of booby tutorials out there are just predrawn boobs with the artist going HEY LOOK! HERE ARE SOME BOOBS! but not many that actually talk about the anatomical structure, and where to put the lines. I was like, “Hey, I can probably whip something up.” And so I spent my thanksgiving making this.
Proportions probably aren’t exact, but I did my best. I also didn’t explore the various body types, but perhaps I could do a separate tutorial someday. I hope you find this tutorial useful :)
All photo references used in the tutorial were found on The Drawing Script. Credits to each photo belong to their respective owners.
