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Swinton Scott
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Приєднався 24 тра 2013
I've been at this for a long time, animation that is. I want to teach you the basics of how to animate, and how to make your own film. I've spent time in the animation business working on shows you watched over the years. I've worked at or for almost all of the Hollywood studios, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Film Roman, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, TMS, DIC, Rough Draft, and Pantomime Pictures. I learned a lot from many talented people over the years. I think all of you can use these techniques I've learned to make your own animated films. From analog to digital, from pencils and paper to animating with computer software and apps. You'll have fun exploring different ways to animate. You'll find out that there's more than one way to solve a problem in animation. And you'll have fun drawing and animating.....!
HOW TO DRAW THE FUNKY PHANTOM
IN THIS EPISODE: The Funky Phantom was a character created back in 1971 to make another show of young people solving mysteries with a helper, in this case, a ghost or phantom with a pet cat. I don’t know how many seasons it was on Saturday mornings. But a lot of people remember the show. To draw this guy, break the head down into the basic shapes, and copy what you see. Give it a try yourself!
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WHERE WAS THE DISNEY STUDIO BEFORE BURBANK?
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IN THIS EPISODE: I walked down Kingswell Ave and shot some video and still pictures of the first office space for the Disney Studio before they moved to Hyperion Ave followed by the move to Burbank. They lived with Roy and Walt’s uncle, and operated out his garage for a time, then found this space nearby to rent from a real estate company. This is where they were making the Alice comedies, a se...
HOW TO CLEAN UP SCOOBY DOO SNEAKING AWAY PART 2.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Continued from last episode, how to clean up a Scooby Doo drawing of Scooby sneaking away. I drew the rough drawing last time with a light blue Col-Erase pencil. To clean up this drawing I used a Derwent 6B, with a softer lead you don’t have to press down quite so hard. I did use a General’s Drafting pencil on one part, then a Design Ebony pencil towards the end. The eraser mig...
HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY DOO SNEAKING AWAY PART 1
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IN THIS EPISODE: Here is Scooby Doo slinking away or sneaking away, his head is hanging down. This is part one, drawing Scooby in blue pencil, roughing out the pose with Col-erase Light Blue pencil. I’m pretty sure this model sheet can be downloaded so you can try it for yourself. Have fun!
HOW TO LEARN TO DRAW SCOOBY DOO BY TRACING.
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IN THIS EPISODE: There was a question sent in about copying and tracing to learn how to draw. The answer is yes, this is how most of us learn how to draw. I spent a long time copying from the old masters paintings and old comic books from the 60s when I was younger to learn how to draw. You can find drawings and paintings by Da Vinci and Michelangelo and Raphael and Rubens and copy them to lear...
HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY SKIDDING TO A STOP
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IN THIS EPISODE: Scooby-Doo runs a lot, so here is a drawing from the model pack of Scooby skidding to a stop. Here is how to break down the drawing into the basic shapes and connect them to make Scooby. You can download model sheets of any character and do this to learn how to draw that character. Its line of action and adding volume/shapes, followed by details. Give it a try. Keep drawing!
HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY-DOO LOW RUNNING.
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IN THIS EPISODE: This is how to draw Scooby-Doo low running, that is running as if his life depends on it! It’s more of a panic run than the other running poses we have done. I should get a kneaded eraser for these lessons. Well, I do have a couple, but they are in a new place here in the studio. Anyways, give this pose a try. And keep drawing!
HOW TO CLEAN UP SCOOBY DOO WITH BLACKWING PENCIL FROM DARK BLUE PENCIL.
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IN THIS EPISODE: A Scooby-Doo drawing in dark blue pencil needs to be redrawn in light blue pencil and cleaned up with a Blackwing pencil. We had to do this back in the old days. A Scooby-Doo or other character drawing is done in dark blue pencil, and needs to be cleaned up. Using a clean sheet of paper and a light blue pencil makes the job a lot easier. There is a lot learn about animation cle...
HOW TO DRAW AND CLEAN UP SCOOBY-DOO WITH BLACKWING AND OTHER PENCILS
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IN THIS EPISODE: Here’s a little demo for drawing Scooby-Doo in light blue pencil and cleaning up the drawing with Blackwing and other pencils. I did a lot of clean up and inbetweening for H-B, not a lot of Scooby-Doo. They had a crew of people doing that. They only needed me once or twice on the show. I drew Scooby a lot more when I was directing on the series in 2002, “What’s New Scooby Doo?”...
HOW TO DRAW PRESTON BLAIR'S SCREWBALL CHARACTER
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IN THIS EPISODE: Preston Blair’s book has a page about designing a screwball character, like Woody Woodpecker, and Daffy Duck. Here I’ll take that lesson and draw a screwball bear, a wise acre. Start with basic shapes, and build a screwball bear. I know bears are not supposed to be this type of character, but it’s okay to go against the grain. Make your own character, it’s yours, you can do wha...
HOW TO DRAW SHAGGY AND INFO ABOUT IWAO TAKAMOTO
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IN THIS EPISODE: How to draw Shaggy from Scooby Doo. Here is another lesson about how to break Shaggy down into basic shapes to make it easy. He’s smiling but he’s hungry. And after the lesson, I’ll show you an article about Iwao Takamoto, the man who designed the all of characters in the Scooby Doo show. A very talented man whose career started out at the Disney Studio in the 40s. His drawing ...
HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY DOO RUNNING TO CAMERA
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INTHIS EPISODE: I copied this from a model sheet of Scooby Doo. Here he is running towards camera, and I’ll show you how to break him down into basic shapes in order to make him run. Try out this drawing, it’s a little different than the other drawings of Scooby Doo we have done in that it’s kind of a 3/4 front view, therefore you have use foreshortening to make the drawing work. It’s an intere...
HOW TO PICK A MECHANICAL PENCIL
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IN THIS EPISODE: Mechanical Pencils can be fun to draw with. I’ll show you a few different types of mechanical pencils and lead holders that I have. Some are very inexpensive, some are a little more coin. They have their place in the animation arts. If you want a line that is very uniform, try a mechanical pencil. It’s what feels good for you and your hands. The art supply stores will have them...
HOW I LEARNED ABOUT ANIMATION PRODUCTION DESIGN FROM CORNY COLE
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IN THIS EPISODE: I read about Corny Cole in a book written by John Canemaker about the making of the Raggedy Ann animated feature back in the 70s. In this book is an entire chapter about Corny Cole, the production designer for the movie. Here was his artwork made to show what the movie would look like. It inspired me to want to design characters and backgrounds. And he was a great guy. Very gen...
HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY DOO WITH A CURIOUS EXPRESSION
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IN THIS EPISODE: How to draw Scooby Doo looking curious, he wants to investigate something a bit closer. But not too close, something might jump out and scare him! This drawing is copied from a model sheet, and this is how to break the drawing down into basic shapes. Also, have a look at an interview I did on the Scooby Addicts UA-cam Channel. I had a great time talking to the ladies about all ...
HOW DO THE NEW AND OLD BLACKWING PENCILS COMPARE?
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HOW DO THE NEW AND OLD BLACKWING PENCILS COMPARE?
HOW TO PICK A BLACK PENCIL FOR DRAWING ANIMATION POSES
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HOW TO PICK A BLACK PENCIL FOR DRAWING ANIMATION POSES
HOW TO PICK A BLUE PENCIL FOR ANIMATION.
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HOW TO PICK A BLUE PENCIL FOR ANIMATION.
HOW TO PLAN A CHARACTER RUNNING IN A CIRCLE.
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HOW TO PLAN A CHARACTER RUNNING IN A CIRCLE.
HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY DOO HAPPY EXPRESSIONS.
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HOW TO DRAW SCOOBY DOO HAPPY EXPRESSIONS.
HOW TO LOOK AT WINSOR McCAY'S LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND COMIC STRIP.
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HOW TO LOOK AT WINSOR McCAY'S LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND COMIC STRIP.
HOW TO LOOK AT CHARLES SCHULZ PEANUTS COMIC STRIP
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HOW TO LOOK AT CHARLES SCHULZ PEANUTS COMIC STRIP
HOW TO DRAW PRESTON BLAIR’S BULLDOG 4.
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HOW TO DRAW PRESTON BLAIR’S BULLDOG 4.
DRAWINGS FROM THE LIVE MODEL WILL HELP YOU DRAW ANYTHING. TAKE A LIFE DRAWING CLASS WHEN YOU CAN…
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DRAWINGS FROM THE LIVE MODEL WILL HELP YOU DRAW ANYTHING. TAKE A LIFE DRAWING CLASS WHEN YOU CAN…
HOW TO DRAW A PRESTON BLAIR DOG ON TRACING PAPER.
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HOW TO DRAW A PRESTON BLAIR DOG ON TRACING PAPER.
"The Funky Phantom" appeared on the Saturday Morning schedule when I was four years old. I was absolutely obsessed with this Bert Lahr, Snagglepuss sounding 17th century ghost! Thanks for conjuring him up and making him reappear. (And I'd love to add those awesome character sheets to my library! 😁)
Hullo, I am curious about “back in the day” as I have never met an Artist or Writer who has used both pencils. I am 62 and while I purchased the introduction set of Blackwing pencils just released, I have no comparison to go on. So I have heard Orsen Wells was a fan of Blackwings, is that your time frame? I found the pencils in the set I got, good pencils, nothing to write home about, to use a phrase popular “back in the day”! I suppose if you got the money why not waste it on a set of pencils?
Well done 🎉🎉🎉 11:06
Like I really want those books they seem cool. I really wanna draw cartoon characters.
I’m interested in learning more about directing animation. I’ve heard that some directors prefer to use a stopwatch to count the beats in animation while others use a metronome. What do you recommend best, and if so what kind of stopwatch or metronome?
I think a lot, a few people used to use stopwatches, maybe some still do, I'm not as connected as I used to be to the rest of the industry. One of my friends gave me a very small electronic metronome, which he used a lot. And we still have a stop watch around here somewhere. I usually go by feeling when I slug a story board. There used to be animation stop watches out there, not sure if there still are. Since Cartoon Color supply house went away I don't know where people get animation stuff like that. Like cel paint, who sells that now? Or animation cels? Maybe an Amazon or Google search..... There may be an app for your phone or tablet device that measures film time, or video time which are two different timings, film is 24 frames a second, and video is 30 frames a second. Give both a try and see which one you like. The timing I did in this demo was very rough. Watching old animation and stepping through it frame by frame is a way to analyze and break down animation moves. Metronomes are certainly great for timing actions to music. And stopwatches are what to use to time general actions.
Ohh I love this, After a rough couple of weeks your video has come at a perfect time. 😊😊
I love the preston blair books, I also realy like character animation course by Eric goldberg. They are both quite nostalgic for me
Wow! Nice work on Shaggy. Where do you get those model sheets at?
I used to have many more. When you work on a show, you are given model packs. Almost all of them have been uploaded online somewhere, just do a search and you will find them. I thought I had lost my Scooby models, so I had to print some out. A few were very low quality, small file size. But I finally found the actual model packs in the boxes of stuff in my studio.
Awwww Scooby running looks great! The motion lines do add a lot to it to portray them moving. It's amazing how a few little lines can make such an impact.
The guidelines on this one looked like the head of a snake lol. I don't know why my brain is relating the guidelines to other things today. Scooby looks great and that expression is a tough one to draw, but you nailed it. Would you say it's ok to trace Scooby for a while? Would that help me with proportions?
Whether you trace or copy, the important part is make the drawing of the character become almost second nature, as drawing a square or a circle. When I was working for Fred Crippen, he told me that if really wanted a job at H-B, I should get a model pack of a show, and just trace the characters. Learn what the character designs are all about of the show. Tracing and copying are two ways to go. If you can print out a model sheet of Scooby and trace it over and over, you will get muscle memory in you hand to eye moves of the shapes that make Scooby what he is. We base of our drawings on circles because they are easy shapes to draw. If you can draw circles with ease, that are pretty close to being very round, you're on the way. I start with circles just so I can imagine where the rest of the character is going to be on the page. I'll demo a couple more techniques for drawing in upcoming videos.
@@swintonscott3166 thank you for the info. Maybe I’ll start tracing the full body model sheets so I can gain some muscle memory and hopefully get better at staying in proportion.
I love how the guide lines you drew made it look kind of like a robot dog and then you transformed that into Scooby! Great drawing! This is a difficult angle to draw Scooby at for me and I can never get his proportions right, so I try to stay away from drawing full body.
Very useful post, sir
I'm learning for make animation, how to camera thouse drawing sheets into a scene?
That will be in a video soon. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment!
@@swintonscott3166 i'm glad to hear that
A great set! I’ve written down some of those recommendations, but since some of those colors and brands are under new companies or discontinued it’s a bit tricky to find some of them! Either way, I found I really like the different blue colors, especially Non photo blue.
There are pencil collectors and pencil historians out there, they would know which companies got bought out and which ones sank into oblivion without a trace... And nothing beats going into the store to try them out. The art stores will usually have a blank sheet of paper to try out pens and pencils. Thanks for watching, and thanks for the comments....!
Swinton!!! Great story.
Hey it's been a minute! Hope you are well!
Bic pen as in a Bic Cristal?
Well, I'm not sure. These pens don't have any I.D. markings on them, I do see packs of actual BIC Pens at the supermarket and the office supply store. I just remembered that the chain known as Big Lots is either shrinking or going out of business. A good time and place to get cheap pencils and pens and blank paper for drawing. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment.
Good drawing lesson Mr. Scott. Sadly, I have overstayed my welcome here and I will be unsubscribing to you. I wish you the best. Goodbye 👋
I hope it wasn't something I said. I will miss our conversations here....
No, it just feels like it.
Thanks for the video Scott! I've been on the market for Blackwings. I tried them once and they are amazing! There just a certain feeling to them from when I tried it out. I really like pencils with smooth control. Not too rough but not too slippery. I tried out some Japanese mechanical pencils. They are alright. It's a tad more slippery but not as bad as say doing digital art. Only downside is you cant use the sides of the pencils to draw. This video officially sold me in getting one. Now onto a good drafting table or animation table.
Glad you liked the video! Thanks for watching, and thanks for the comment. Good luck getting a new table. Like I said in another video, Charles Schulz said he used to draw the "Peanuts" strip on a card table. Doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Just to hold your artwork.
@@swintonscott3166 Yeah. I really don't like bending my back to draw on a flat table. It's bad for your back. Can't wait to find a proper table and Blackwing. I bet I can make some really nice things. Improvements over a flat surface
You're really good subscribed to channel man wow
Thanks for the subscription.
Excellent comparison! I really LOVE using the new Blackwing 602 pencils, from the new company, as they are now my new favorite drawing pencils for animating, yet I am very comfortable with using them.
Good video Mr. Scott. 👍
Sorry, my original comment got deleted for some reason. Anyway, awesome video as always Mr. Scott. 👍
Thanks again!
You are welcome.🙂
Good video Mr. Scott. They do in fact still make Koh-I-Noor pencils, Koh-I-Noor even has a store on Amazon.
Thanks, I'll have a look....
You are welcome Mr. Scott. Also they still make General Layout pencils too.
I acquired a box of Zhanmai blue pencils, people claim are better than the Color-Erase, but have really drawn with yet.
I don't think I know of those pencils, next time I get to Blick's I'll check them out... Thanks for watching!
I LOVE your videos. It sounds like a raging blizzard is going on just outside your window. 😀
Great Video!,btw I wonder if you can do a similar video but with graphite pencils animators use?
It's upcoming, in the next few days. I just made one today.... Thanks for watching, and thanks for the comment...
I’ve used Col-Erase non-photo blue person the most (due to my training) but I am always open to new options. I use Ticonderoga tri-write when I just want to use regular graphite in illustration underdrawing, but I also like Carmine Red and Blue sometimes. Xeroxing non-photo blue was never quite invisible… Thanks for sharing your collection! :)
Look up old Disney WB MGM animation drawings and you will see a few different colors used for animation when drawings were hand inked. Of course a light touch when using light blue pencils will help them not get xeroxed, as well as rubbing the drawing down with a kneaded eraser, which I forgot we used to do till just now. Thanks for reminding me, I'll do that in an upcoming lesson. Thanks for watching, and thanks for the comment! Hope you are well!
@@swintonscott3166 I always enjoy your work, your videos and your comments! I’m glad to hear about your rich history, too! You have done and continue to do so much! I am well and I’m glad to be able to be in touch, even in this small way. :) Stay cool, Swinton! (Also, I will absolutely check out the different colors!)
You make drawing Scooby look so easy! It's nice to see you continue to draw Scooby as I know of some animators that didn't like Scooby because they said he was so difficult to draw. Great job on this!!
Thanks so much! I hope everyone will see how easy it is to draw these characters once you break them down into basic shapes. It took me a while to learn how to do it, I hope everyone will learn how to do this faster than I did and enjoy drawing as well. Thanks again!
Good video. I have a question, what is the brand name for the sketchbook that you are using?
THis sketchbook is "Create Something Today", and a friend gave it to me. She forgot which store it came from, could have been Michael's or another craft store. It's a very smooth surface, kind of like smooth bristol paper. I have a pencil from the late 70s that I keep in a plastic bag because it's no longer made, and I have not used it since the 80s. I'm going to try it on this pad, I'm guessing it will be a nice smooth line.... Thanks for watching, and thanks for the comment!
Thank you for answering my question Mr. Scott. And you are welcome, I really enjoyed this video.
Colors!
Have you ever tried the Hi uni Mitsubishi pencils? They are rather nice to draw with.
I'm pretty sure I still have one here in the supply room. Used to draw with them back in the 80s. I guess they are still around? They were good, nice lines, smooth on the smooth paper... Next time I visit Blick's I'll look for them. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment!
@@swintonscott3166 No worries. I want to get into the animation industry and am working on my portfolio. Your channel is helping me out and I really appreciate it.
Interesting
Scooby ❤
Corny was masterful draftperson i loved his work was ag reat encouragment to me in my youth.
What type of color pencils do you use? I recently bought a set of Prismacolor non-photo blue color pencils and some regular blue, but I’m not sure the latter is the right kind to use when sketching. Besides the non photo blue, what other color pencils do you use when drawing, and sketching? Before clean up?
One of my favorite Hanna Barbera characters and show. Great work and cool to know you worked on the 13 Ghost show. That's the one I grew up with. All the others were already reruns but that's how I got into Scooby Doo. I would love to see more Scooby tutorial drawings.
Good day Scott... Had a question for you, hoping you can answer this.. All these years I've been into drawing cartoons ive noticed Charicature artists seem to always copy other Artists cartoons... Im sure there is a reason for it, im just not 100% sure why they do that. My experience with most of those types of artists is they are able to draw from their imagination, though a few of them usually copy, in addition to drawing characters of live models.. Hoping my inquiry makes sense. P.s. you do amazing work yourself. 😊
If you mean caricature artists, that draw funny portraits on the beach or at amusement parks, usually they are kind of young and just starting out. Is that who you are referring to? As far as copying other artists is concerned, we all learn how to draw by copying artists we like. I started out copying TV cartoons, newspaper comic strips, and comic books, in addition to a few of the old masters in art history books. We all copy. Drawing from the imagination is a skill in itself. But usually one needs some kind of reference materials to make the drawing/paintings believable. Not sure if I am answering your question, if not, you can clarify your question, I'll try to answer you as best I can.... Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment, as well as the compliment.
Great tutorial 👍 Is there going to be more of how to draw Scooby using various facial expressions?
Well, I'll do a few more of old Scooby-Doo. He seems to have a lot of fans.... Thaks for watching, and thanks for the comment.
Cool. Thank you very much for answering my question Mr. Scott; I highly appreciate it. Also, you are very welcome.
Awesome tutorial Swinton, I love Popeye. I have a question: is that book "Thr Fleischer Story" by Leslie Cabarga?
Yes it is, from back in the mid 70s.....
Awesome. I will probably get myself a copy off of Amazon or Ebay to study and practice drawing other characters by Fleischer. And thank you for answering my questions, I highly appreciate it.
I did not know you worked on the Little Nemo movie, that is my favorite animated film.. Which characters did you design?
I just took the designs from the strip and made them into animation ready turn arounds, pretty sure I did Flip, and a tall clown, a professor, and some others. And did some vehicles, like the rabbits pulling an egg shaped carriage, and a ship with a big smoke stack, and a caliope pulled by horses? It was a fun project to work on....
Thank you for answering my question Mr. Scott, that is so cool. I love Flip, The Professor and the ship with the giant smoke stack. I know you probably didn't work on this character, but the Nightmare King is up there with Chernabog from Fantasia as my favorite animated movie villains.
I used to love reading his comic strip books from the library.
I found your channel through your interview with ScoobyAddicts, and as an artist and budding animator following along with these videos and the books you’ve recommended, I have to thank you for these! It’s great to learn from professionals who’ve worked on some of our childhood favorites! I love these tutorials featuring the Scooby Doo characters. If there’s a chance, do you think you do some featuring some monsters from the franchise or some of the side characters like Scrappy?
Glad you liked the video! Thanks for watching, and for commenting. As for other characters, I'll look through my research materials/model sheets for things like the monsters. I may have some in the magic box.
Your rendition is spot on
Awesome, very informative video.
Such a great Scooby drawing demonstration. It was so much fun to watch you draw him. There is something very satisfying about watching a character come to life on paper. Thank you so so much for the shout out. Wendy and I very much enjoyed talking to you and we appreciate your time. I’m sorry it took me so long to watch this. I was on vacation and then I had to catch up from being on vacation. Thank you for the work you put into this channel to help us all understand more about animation. I’m excited that you are almost at 1,000 subscribers. 😊
Good video. I have Steve Huston's book and watched a couple of his tutorials on UA-cam, he is a very informative art teacher.
Beautiful, dont forget to make us video on making a dog walk in a circle in 3d space ,plz😊
Thank you for sharing your skill as well as some of these animation layout books. Always happy to see whats behind the scenes of 2D animation.
And there is so much more to explain about the layouts and animation in these drawings. More to come soon enough....Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment...
Thanks for sharing these rare books.
Glad you like them!
Where did you get that? 😮😮
Many years ago there was a bookstore here in Los Angeles that sold books from France, I don't think the bookstore is there anymore.