Trying To Understand What Being An Animator Is Like - Part 4

 

Welcome back to Trying To Understand What Being An Animator Is Like, this is Part 4. 

The links to Parts 1-3 will be on the bottom of the page. 

When it comes to animation especially in the classic golden age, I assumed we all know the masters whether it would be someone like Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Rod Scribner or directors like Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and Tex Avery, all of those talents were surprisingly all men.

Now I have nothing against men, they are great, but I just never really expected to know too much animators who were women, not alot has been credited amongst them. This is what I have recently researched.

Yikes, I'm not kidding, but I recently searched the first ever female Disney animator and her name was Retta Scott, from what I gathered, she worked for Bambi, her animation is really unique and interesting.

As a female myself, I always dreamt being an animator, and bringing back that successful, pleasent and warmth feel of traditional 2D animation from the 30s-50s.

You'd think I wouldn't be able to design a character like these guys?

Drawing characters in this sorta style is really hard to do, but trust me if you can learn about Disney's Illusion Of Life and Preston Blair you'll get it.

The beastly wolf is one of the most distinctive looking characters I've drawn. He doesn't even look like an artmania character, and that's what I love about drawing him. He's also really hard to draw too. You'll have to construct the sphere of the head and practice drawing subtle human-like facial features.

Making a somewhat intriguing villain takes alot of skill, and knowledge, my main rule is to not make the personality seemingly laid-back or feel like their purposefully weak. 

These poses help understand what the wolf's main characteristics are alot easier, usually when I'm drawing a random character, I only focus on facial expressions, but the more I get used to drawing and constructing, I get to do so much more action and nature with it.

The selfish wolf devours his prey to capture the feel of a real ferocious beast.

It's also keen to say I love designing characters that look simple but have alot of construction in them. 

Recently I was experimenting with different types of pencils, I used a red colored pencil, and a normal pencil to sketch the extra details.  

Any similarities?

Inspired by the likes of Tex Avery and Scribner.

In a future post, I will be able to draw some classic characters for you guys, for now it's the most iconic and easiest cartoon character to draw in history. 

Usually when I'm watching an animated film, I don't know who at the studio animated which sequence because it just looks all alike, it's unimaginable, nowadays as a hobby, I watch animation reels. 

  

Here's a ton of facial expressions, this might be one of the most useful drawings I ever created, this may be my portfolio.

I know that someday as an old-school styled animator, this will recieve the amount of impact and appeal it gets.