This is Part 2.
What I love about animation is that it truly is "life". You can express yourself with your artistic talents to create something your mind can come up with.
While continuing looking through the Disney Illusion Of Life book, I notice this small detail that I geniuely like alot. The close-ups mostly when two characters interact. This is a scene of Jiminy Cricket and The Blue Fairy, it's truly fascinating and such an image.
This quote kinda bugged me because it states that extreme close-ups tend to be lacking. I have no clue why, since it feels so influential and cinematic in sorta ways. Eh, maybe it was only this scene but I like it nonetheless.
Appeal is probably the biggest principle in art history. All of my characters I made, their first designs were completely different than what I'm used to drawing them nowadays. Szac used to have dot eyes, Mike The Dog was originally supposed to be a standing straight character and not a ordinary puppy and with my recent additions, Pixie Elf and James, these are what they originally looked like.
The first design for James was having human sized brown shoes and lighter skin tone.
Pixie Elf's hairstyle looked more like a boy-band trend rather than the slim yet simple hairstyle he has today and for now on.
It's like accuracy, trying to resemble a more organic and real character. Disney, Warner Bros and Fleischer and heck even more modern animation studios, draw their first designs of the characters kinda strange and weirdly drawn.
Imagine this being the final version of Wind Of The Willows.
The designs we're used to are timeless for good reasons and for good merchandising and appeal.
That's why I truly treasure the Little Golden Books and study the greats so I can get the knowledge to be inspired by all these classics that truly changed the world.
I love the simple, yet cute and amusingly original illustrations of these. I have the Santa's Toy Shop book but mine is more whiter.
This is probably exclusively Disney but what I'm learning so far about concept art and early production is that it's not only model sheets, voice acting etc, Mary Blair makes these wonderful and gorgeous pieces of art that helped the movies look more vibrant and memorable.
These are really useful and worth studying just like storyboards.
Next moving onto Preston Blair (again)
He's also one of the most influential artists for these publishing books alone.
Does this make you feel like you wanna start drawing?
This one too? This has more amount of animals and specific models.
This one stood out to me the most. The older versions of the Preston Blair tutorial books probably didn't have too much different styles. Mine has pages where the people look like UPA designs, it's honestly really interesting since I know people tend to like those cartoons.
I seriously think movies like the old Disney princess movies need to come back. They were the most elegant and innocent movies I ever saw, true, not every single one of them left an impact on me, but I love the live-action, smooth, mature designs of Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
This is a sculpture I got at the Goodwill. I love stuff like this. I have two but I'm only going to show you this guy with the present.
The reason why I'm showing you all of this it's because it's useful for me to get a better understanding on how to make animated characters especially humans.
More cinematic views.
Next is a more cartoony looking human being, Doc. Reasons to why I picked him is his trusty gem wagon.
What I realized how model sheets work is that in some cases, they would use these things called "maquettes". I seen a video of an interview with someone talking to the real Preston Blair himself and it was really cool to see the amount of detail and passion each character looked into a real sculpture.
Part 3 might be next, but who knows maybe I'll go into something more different. Stay tuned though.
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