Trying To Understand What Being An Animator Is Like Part 5

I'm revisting a series I enjoyed making on my blog. This is Trying To Understand What Being An Animator Is Like Part 5. 

This is talking about specific and experimental traditional 2D character designs. They're not overly simplistic to draw, it's challenging but also useful and helps improve your skills.

I'm someone who wants to enjoy a moment of their life drawing and improving traditional animation techniques. I'm already getting the hang of constructing different characters and acting methods. I looked into my old drawings I did back in July filled with very basic and quick doodles, I observed more into pencil sketches and screencaps rather than on-screen movement nowadays. 

I already talked about my inspirations on the Song of The South scenes, because they're just too goshdarn good looking! This isn't actually that bad to me. I could kinda draw these characters very well, or sorta capture the style. 

The Wolf is heavily inspired by Brer Fox, so I tried practicing more detailed and constructive surfaces of the design, starting off with a red coloring pencil to sketch the circular head and adding curved lines.

Then I really start adding the details.

Finally, I use my normal pencil and finished. 

I tried to fully capture the charm and complexity of a well-designed villain. 

Take Ratigan and Brer Fox as examples of the best animated villains.

Close-ups also help too. It's much more menacing and creepy in the best ways possible. When I first watched these Brer Fox scenes I was astounded, I immediately wanted to know more about this character, he was just like what I enjoy in the older Disney movies, the fresh and fierce moods, especially with stuff like the Pleasure Island scenes, Maleficent, the fight with Peter and Captain Hook and The Headless Horseman.

There's something to love about the modern Disney movies like the ones from the Bronze Age and Renaissance but that's for another post. 

I tend to be invested with these characters because they have more of a presence and feel more human to their surroundings. 

Someone like Mickey and his friends are very memorable but they lack deep emotion or sense. Something like Mickey's Christmas Carol I can give credit for, but the short films, and the pre-school TV shows just makes these characters less likeable to me. Sometimes Donald can be blinded to reality and just reacts not suitable to the situation like in his Chip and Dale cartoons. It's just the average short-film personality.

I stopped watching cartoons because the characters were so tame and don't progress in my opinion. It's like those under 60 minute old westerns. I could understand people liking the characters but they aren't the most well-written or relatable characters ever. That's why I'm trying to explore more deeper and inspirational stories and personalities. 

I want to fully talk about how I'm now drawing characters with red pencils, it all came from one image of Brer Rabbit.

Since I obviously love the designs of the characters, the red pencil details were so interesting to me, I thought it was useful and better to draw the more detailed proportions. 

This is another drawing of The Wolf and his sidekick Cauliflower. 

This drawing took me less than 10 minutes to make. I researched into how much time was it to draw one additional frame or drawing, it just depends. You could draw something extremely detailed and sharp and it'll take over countless minutes or even hours to make it work. I did look into more aspects of the animation theory like in-betweeners, turns out not a single animator could control all of the scenes themselves, kinda interesting to be honest. 

All I have to say is, it would've been possible without my animation heroes, Preston Blair, love his book. 

This is what started the saga.

I want to freely talk about my interests in story-telling next since it's obvious now that this series is taken rest again after a few months.