Ken Southworth Animation Exercises Book 1

Nowadays it seems like there's a new online animation school opening every week. But ten years ago no such thing existed. If you wanted to learn animation and didn't quite make it to Cal-Arts it was rather bleak.




So I was quite excited when I was at a convention, perhaps around 1998 or so, and happened across a table selling "The Ken Southworth Animation Videos." Ken Southworth had a long career at a number of studios including work on prominent Disney and Hanna-Barbera titles




For $29.99 you got a booklet with some discussion of animation principals and keyframes he had drawn for you to use in doing the animation exercises.




And... you got a video showing him showing you how to do it! All on paper of course.




Pedagogically it was a bit thin; a half hour of video instruction wasn't quite enough to clear up all the mysteries of the process for me, and curiously it started out with the hardest exercise of all, but I appreciate that he was trying to get some information out there. Thanks, Ken, wherever you are!

Here, after all these years, are my attempts at the "Ken Southworth Basic Animation Kit" exercises.

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Film & Animation

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• hand
• drawn
• cartoon

[robcat2075]

@thejobe100

Well, you don't want to spend 13 years on two seconds of animation like I did here!

I really should get bouncing ball boot camp started on the forum.

[thejobe100]

i think this is what i need to advance my animation skills. i wonder if there is anything new out there similar to this?