Don Bluth Animation Tutorial: Getting the Feeling

Drawings that are not parented by the artists honest feelings are empty; they have no soul. This tutorial will explore the process of finding your feelings before picking up the pencil. Creativity rises up from those feelings. See the full tutorial and details by visiting http://www.donbluthanimation.com

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[Draco9898]

Hey Flash animators, listen up! This is how you do REAL animation, you can't just rotate your characters body-parts like cardboard cut-outs.

[etiscool1]

There's Walt Disney, There's Hayao Miyazaki, There's Chuck Jones, There's Walter Lantz, There's Hannah Barberra, There's everybody at PIXAR, and then there's Don Bluth. Why doesn't hollywood stick to cel drawn animation.

[iSparkettei]

@Dalen77

i watched the video you described (it's the rough lineart one isn't it?) and that's pretty much exactly the level of feel & life i want to capture but i find traditional way too messy & restrictive to do it with

i even find digital still too restrictive, i just think way too fast and detailed, even my simpler ideas would resemble that scene in complexity and it just takes too long to make 1 piece for my quickly paced thinking, hence my search for shortcuts and tools

[Dalen77]

@iSparkettei I'm just someone who wants to get serious beauty and life into art and drawings + animation, I got accepted to Sheridan, but never went, been out of the art loop for awhile, used to do portraits too. I'm the kind of artist where I don't even like it when comic artist use reference, never mind a computer, that's sort of where I am. Look at the video (Beauty and The Beast Glen Keane), this is what I mean.

[iSparkettei]

@Dalen77

maybe i'm thinking of the kind of CGI i'd want to make, rather than what is currently being made

i'd make something more simplistic less "omg it's so realistic, look explosions!" that does indeed take the same amount of time and cost a ton

i can't imagine 2D being less expensive it's just so much work, i tried making a cheesy animated short with little sprites i drew and it took me a while mainly cause i had to redraw&recolor stuff over and over

[iSparkettei]

@Dalen77

...i think you probably can... or atleast very close, it won't look drawn traditionally of course, but pass for a digitally done drawing if you didn't know any better

but you'd have to make it like heavily cell-shaded with very fine tuning to the models, i don't know what the result would be i have never seen it done like that, i really need to try and mess with it

if i can just match up to a digital drawing level i'd be pretty happy with it

[Dalen77]

@iSparkettei I understand what your saying the 2 should be mixed, and experimented rather then just abandoned.

[Dalen77]

@iSparkettei But it has to be completely hands on from the artist mind and hand to get the touch, artist are already drawing on the computer screens with digital pens.

[iSparkettei]

@Dalen77

another thing to consider is that computer animation is very very new in comparison to classic, with classic there's people who have worked for years on achieving those "feelings" you described, whereas 3D artists have had far less time to do the same thing with totally different methods