Cool Animation by Glen Keane

Lately I'm so interested with classical animation. With so many animation software nowadays, less and less people are still doing classical in my country. The reason is simply because it's the most basic form of animation and it's the hardest to master. Requires tons of effort and years of training. But thats definetely why it's fun to challenge.

If you don't know what is called classical animation, it is an animation that is done frame by frame without involving any motion or shape tweening from any digital software. Some people only call it classical if it is done manually by hand drawing on papers. But with the existence of Wacom, we can actually draw frame by frame directly on a software and I still prefer to call it classical animation.

What I want to share today is a great lecture (in three parts) by Glen Keane on his approach to animating a scene. You can learn so much by just "looking over the shoulder" of these great animators as they animate.   

Animation, the basics

Animation is the more advance form of art, as it combined series of drawings into a nicely timed movement.

Animation is divided into 2D and 3D, but both actually uses the same principle. Master the principle, and you can do great animation on any media. So what are the basic principles of animation?

There're actually 12 of them.

Where to sell your art?

While you are sharpening your skills and sense of art, you may start to think of ways to sell it. I'm sure it's every artist's dream to be able to make a living off his/her own art. Yet many of us ended up on a job not even close to the art category. Even if you manage to get into a nice art studio, you're still working for the client, drawing stuffs you don't like or forced to bear a hell of deadline. Don' you want to express your art freely, draw whenever you have the mood, and even earn money from it? 

Well there's actually some options to consider.