Animation 1: Learn to Animate Cartoons Step by Step (Cartooning, Book 1)

author: Preston J. Blair
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/04
date added: 2019/10/04
shelves: non-fiction
review:
'Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair' from Walter Foster is a kind of classic from a company that puts out excellent art instruction books.

Preston Blair was an animator in the classic days of animation and worked for the major animation studios like Disney and MGM. Here he shows the steps to creating loveable characters, starting with how to construct the head, then moving on to facial expression. Squash and stretch and line of motion are covered as well as movement.

It's called Animation 1, but I think the reader should know that this dives in pretty quickly. I think figure drawing could be learned from this book, but some rudimentary figure and shape drawing is probably a precursor. His example characters have a familiarity, and I understand that his early versions of this book included likenesses from the studios until he was told not to use them. It's a solid instructional book and I'm glad I got to read it.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Quarto Publishing Group - Walter Foster, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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