ABSTRACT

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.

 

Key Features

  • Provides readers with their own personal sketchbook, demonstrating classical art skills that are highly prized by studio employers
  • Readers will come away better visualizing form, gesture, pose and expression Includes 60 speed and gesture drawing exercises
  • Provides the perfect way for students of animation to improve their core skills
  • Perfect for animation instructors who can rely on this unique course workbook to take their students to new levels of classic visualizing expertise
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    Part 1: What This Book Is All About

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    The Importance of Drawing

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    What This Book Will and Won’t Do

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    How This Book Is Structured

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    Illustration Pages

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    The Process

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    Simple Is Best

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    Introducing Arnie

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    The Key Pose Animation Process

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    Gesture Drawings vs. Thumbnails

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    Part 2: Now It’s Time to Draw!

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    Exercise 1. Anticipation

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    Exercise 2. Posture

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    Exercise 3. Physical Exercise

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    Exercise 4. Sporting Observation

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    Exercise 5. Single-Person Action

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    Exercise 6. Two-Person Observation

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    Exercise 7. Pose and Silhouette

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    Exercise 10. Blacked-in Silhouettes

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    Exercise 11. Pose Alternatives

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    Exercise 15. Balance

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    Exercise 16. Human Balance

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    Exercise 17. Balance with Weight

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    Exercise 18. Weight Shifts in Walks

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    Exercise 19. Weight and Body Stance

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    Exercise 20. Balance and Dance

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    Exercise 21. Form

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    Exercise 22. Bouncing Ball

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    Exercise 23. Squash and Stretch

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    Exercise 25. Form Consistency

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    Exercise 26. Rotating Objects

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    Exercise 27. Sequential Action

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    Exercise 28. Cup and Hand

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    Exercise 29. Object Throw

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    Exercise 30. Generic Walk

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    Exercise 31. Bird Flight

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    Exercise 32. Breakdown Positions

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    Exercise 33. Achieving Weight

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    Exercise 34. Thin People

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    Exercise 35. Heavy People

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    Exercise 36. Weight Carry

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    Exercise 37. Nonobservational Drawing

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    Exercise 38. Moving with Weight

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    Exercise 39. Framing

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    Exercise 42. Two-Shot Action

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    Exercise 43. Reaction Shot

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    Exercise 44. Person with Horizon

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    Exercise 45. Perspective

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    Exercise 46. One-Point Perspective

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    Exercise 47. Two-Point Perspective

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    Exercise 48. Three-Point Perspective

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    Exercise 49. Forced Figure Perspective

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    Exercise 51. Light and Shade

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    Exercise 52. Dark on Light

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    Exercise 53. Light on Dark

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    Exercise 54. Light within Dark

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    Exercise 55. Rim Lighting

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    Exercise 56. Light Layers

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    Exercise 57. Strength of Line

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    Exercise 58. Strong Foreground Line

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    Exercise 59. Thicker Outline

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    Exercise 60. Storyboarding

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    Exercise 62. Wide Shot

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    Exercise 63. Medium Shot

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    Exercise 64. Close-up Shot

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    Exercise 65. Extreme Close-up Shot

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    Part 3: Appendix

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    Turnaround Arnie Model Sheet

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    Try the Arnie Approach for Yourself

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    Film Language

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    Last Thoughts

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    Animator’s Sketchclub

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    Resources

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    About the Author