Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair

This week seems to have nothing much for me to do though. So, i prefer spending my time this week reading and understanding the good ways to design animating characters. ^^Next week, i'll show my characters with more details in perspectives and movements.

Title: Cartoon Animation
Author: Preston Blair
Published by : Walt Foster Publishing, Inc.

Character development

Animation

Dialogue Expressions

These sections explain a great long term experience of how to create an original characters and its animations. It goes into details from forming shape, personality, features and mannerism. And, the procedure should be different depending on whether the character you're going to create is a animal or a human being....Well, actually, i've already had my own characters, anyway, it's really interesting to see that my process meet some points in the author's procedure...However, i've been missing the main point that is the proportion as creating a pattern. The two good aspects that i recognise here are:
--->Keep the balance in looks, sizes and atitutes
---> best way to reduce one's work. When you have a pettern that the others are able to follow and help you in drawing assistant postures.
Character movement

Technical issues

More over, the book also shows some technical aspects in making cartoon films from settings to camera positions. Those are long and careful procedures behind simple and sort animations we've seen.