/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3277572
>>3265820

>>3277572
the construction known as gitting gud from years of practice

Any place where we can get more gifs like this?

>>3278096
I have a couple.

>>3279781

>>3279783
moar!
i am really fascinated by the raw sketches if animations,

>>3279923
Go to sakugabooru

>>3278096
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=animated+genga+
Can't find how to sort them by popularity/favorites, but here you go.

This kind.
AKA knowing how to fucking draw.

>>3280023
Even better!

>>3280017
have you looked through the book? It's just a guide to be an inbetweener. There is no mention of construction throughout the whole book.

Preston Blair's book is the book for learning to actually be an animator.

>>3280191
Preston Blair's book is letterally paint by numbers shit for children.

>>3280962

>>3280962
Preston Blair gives examples of how to construct characters and pose for animation. In it's basics, it is simply teaching cartooning, but no other animation books teach this crucial element of animation, they just spend hundreds of pages explaining how to hypothetically inbetween drawings that they don't teach you how to make.

>>3281008
Ah, Maybe I've judged his book too harshly
without giving it a fair chance I'll give his book another look.

>>3281021
Honestly anon, I felt the same way. I believed I was put off by it's style. I'm half way into the book and I definitely have a stronger understanding of how to approach animation. I'm still ass, but now I can see how to fix my ass.

>>3277572
The way traditional/Disney animators do it is first, a very, very rough pass that is meant to capture the movement and gestures more than the character design. Some artists don't even bother trying to make it look like the character, just their general shape. They typically don't worry about shape consistency during this stage either because it's all about just getting the very rough idea out on paper.

This I believe is a Milt Kahl rough of Madame Medusa from The Rescuers.

>>3281423
Here is another. These are usually done in short bursts of time, between 45 minutes - hour and a half depending on the sequence and how fast the animator is. The really fast ones are able to crank out their extremely rough keyframes in 45 minutes, and again, this is just to help with the movement, not what they will be cleaning up.

>>3281424

>>3281425
It looks like a basic one-two step process but a lot of revisioning happens in between their initial scribbles and the first clean-up pass. Notes from directors, their own notes, timing changes, etc. Most animations for a feature film production go through several passes before finally being approved for clean-up.

>>3281427
One more example, to show how rough and loose the construction gets when it comes to Jane or when it comes to redrawing Tarzan's same pose body over and over. Sometimes it's just a couple of lines, if even that. More meant to capture the "idea" than to see all the boxes of the character like a figure drawing.