Year: 2016
Author: White T.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 978-1498774017
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 328
The Animator’s Sketchbook will teach students of animation how to improve their work through observation and drawing. It will show readers how to access their inner "animator." With over 60 different gesture and drawing exercises, this book enhances vision, analysis, understanding, and the core skills required to become a master animator. Filled with extensive practice pages, Tony White’s Sketchbook, invites students to demonstrate what they learn. Each exercise is timed, so that the skills acquired, are optimized for efficiency and comprehension. The style and technique of the art produced will be entirely up to the reader, thus making no two sketchbooks alike.
Contents
Preface xv
Thank You xvii
Introduction xix
Part 1 What This Book Is All About
The Importance of Drawing 3
What This Book Will and Won’t Do 5
How This Book Is Structured 7
Illustration Pages 9
The Process 11
Simple Is Best 13
Introducing Arnie 15
The Key Pose Animation Process 17
Gesture Drawings vs. Thumbnails 19
Gesture Drawings.....................19
Thumbnail Drawings...................20
Part 2 Now It’s Time to Draw!
Exercise 1. Anticipation 23
Exercise 2. Posture 27
Exercise 3. Physical Exercise 31
Exercise 4. Sporting Observation 35
Exercise 5. Single-Person Action 39
Exercise 6. Two-Person Observation 43
Exercise 7. Pose and Silhouette 47
Exercise 8. Held Object with Good Silhouette 51
Exercise 9. Held Object with Poor Silhouette 55
Exercise 10. Blacked-in Silhouettes 59
Exercise 11. Pose Alternatives 63
Exercise 12. Emotions and Body Language: Sad 67
Exercise 13. Emotions and Body Language: Happy 71
Exercise 14. Emotions and Body Language: Transitions 75
Exercise 15. Balance 79
Exercise 16. Human Balance 83
Exercise 17. Balance with Weight 87
Exercise 18. Weight Shifts in Walks 91
Exercise 19. Weight and Body Stance 95
Exercise 20. Balance and Dance 99
Exercise 21. Form 103
Exercise 22. Bouncing Ball 107
Exercise 23. Squash and Stretch 111
Exercise 24. Rotating Observational Point 115
Exercise 25. Form Consistency 119
Exercise 26. Rotating Objects 123
Exercise 27. Sequential Action 127
Exercise 28. Cup and Hand 131
Exercise 29. Object Throw 135
Exercise 30. Generic Walk 139
Exercise 31. Bird Flight 143
Exercise 32. Breakdown Positions 147
Exercise 33. Achieving Weight 151
Exercise 34. Thin People 155
Exercise 35. Heavy People 159
Exercise 36. Weight Carry 163
Exercise 37. Nonobservational Drawing 167
Exercise 38. Moving with Weight 171
Exercise 39. Framing 175
Exercise 40. Landscape: Vertical Framing 179
Exercise 41. Landscape: Horizontal Framing 183
Exercise 42. Two-Shot Action 187
Exercise 43. Reaction Shot 191
Exercise 44. Person with Horizon 195
Exercise 45. Perspective 199
Exercise 46. One-Point Perspective 203
Exercise 47. Two-Point Perspective 207
Exercise 48. Three-Point Perspective 211
Exercise 49. Forced Figure Perspective 215
Exercise 50. Drawing Objects in Perspective 219
Exercise 51. Light and Shade 223
Exercise 52. Dark on Light 227
Exercise 53. Light on Dark 231
Exercise 54. Light within Dark 235
Exercise 55. Rim Lighting 239
Exercise 56. Light Layers 243
Exercise 57. Strength of Line 247
Exercise 58. Strong Foreground Line 251
Exercise 59. Thicker Outline 255
Exercise 60. Storyboarding 259
Exercise 61. Extreme Wide Establishing Shot 263
Exercise 62. Wide Shot 267
Exercise 63. Medium Shot 271
Exercise 64. Close-up Shot 275
Exercise 65. Extreme Close-up Shot 279
Exercise 66. Final Storyboarding Exercise 283
Part 3 Appendix
Turnaround Arnie Model Sheet 289
Try the Arnie Approach for Yourself 291
Design Your Own Personal Arnie Character 293
Your Own Character Turnaround Model Sheet 295
Film Language 297
Shots............................297
Transitions.................298
Continuity.................298
Last Thoughts 299
Animator’s Sketchclub 301
DRAWTASTIC Festival of Drawing & Animation 303
Resources 305
Recommended Drawing Books for Animators............305
Tony White’s Books for Animators............................305
Tony White’s iBooks for Animators.......................305
Self-Published by Tony White..............................305
About the Author 307
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