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Chuck Jone's rules for good animation

All living creatures, fictional or not, have anatomy. Equally true of an amoeba, an angle worm, a mastodon , and a Grinch.

If you want believability in your characters, you must have visual consistency. In animation, each character must move according to its own anatomical limitations: Daffy duck must move with Daffy Duck’s anatomy, Donald Duck with Donald Duck’s structure. The amoeba’s anatomy seems to have only one restriction - its bulk; like an inflated baloon, it can vary its shape, but it cannot change its volume. That is, if you want a believable amoeba

All animals - humanized animals or animalized animals - must appear to stand, walk , run or skip under the stablizing pressure of gravity in order to achieve believeability

There is no sympathy without believability, no real laughter without sympathy.

In the sympathetic recognition of any character there must be some evidence of one’s own self, one’s own weaknesses, one’s own mistakes, no matter how well self-concealed, buttoned down or pigeonholded.

The flimmaker as well as the viewer must be able to find the character within himself. We cannot fashion personalities from what we SUPPOSE another person to be.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. If you start out with drawings you will almost certinly end up with limited characters, caught in the matrix of your limited drawing. Therefore…

It is not what or where a character is, nor is it the circumsances under which he finds himself that determine who he is. It is only how in a unique way he responds to that enviorment and those circumstances that identifies him as an individual. hopefully, an interesting character becomes interesting because of that uniqueness among his contemporaries.

For identity, you do not DRAW differently, you THINK differently. It is the WHO of the character , not the WHAT that counts. Walk- through circus clowns depend upon WHAT they look like for their brand of comedy. That is WHAT they are. Comedians depend upon HOW they move for comedy and pathos - their wonderful who-ness.

As the writer John Buchan said, you will never succeed in playing a part unless you convince yourself that you are it.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

no great children’s book, film or fable was ever written for children. It was written for the witer, the artist , the flimmaker. Again, the mark of any ’ great work ’ for children, from one by Beatrix Potter to a book br Dr. Seuss , can be easily identified: if it can be read with pleasure by adults it is probably a very good, possibly a great, childrens book.

you cannot write DOWN to an audience or to your subject. you must write UP to them with the certainty that you cannot ever do justice to your subject, but must bend every creative nerve and muscle of your heart and brain to its full capacity in an attempt to do so.

The least you owe an audience is the best you can do

No art form can exist without restrictive disciplines. Most of the great paintings in history have been caught in the terrible discipline of the rectangle. The flimmaker finds himself trapped in the exact and severe disciplines of both the rectangle an time. Most cinema features are in a time warm of 90 to 120 minutes, most animated cartoon shorts in a confinement of 6 minutes.

You must not complain of your restrictions. If you cannot live with them, find a discipline you can live with.

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Above is a section from Chuck Jone’s book Chuck Reducks. I’ve bolded some of my favorite and most inspirational rules. Forgive me some spelling errors. I was staring at the book while I was typing so I wasnt really watching the screen haha.

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Really liking how immediately you use the soft glow lighting and distinctive language to quickly and effectively establish what The Fae are like, in ways both broad and subtle.

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The way that red glow creeps into the page more and more as we draw closer to The Danger is a GREAT visual choice, really makes you feel the rising Tension!

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HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

And quite an effective introduction, too; the distinct feel of the design stands out immediately, the mix of Exposition and Believable Dynamic in the dialogue gives us an immediately engaging sense of the character, and the disoriented angle of the last panel makes clear that Something Is Amiss in a way that effectively builds excitement!

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Yeah, those jumped out at me very quickly too; the sparkling glow of the colors especially came out REALLY nicely, especially for how well you tie it to a dynamic overall sense of Direction that defines the Dramatic Energy of the scene very effectively. The soft curl of the tail wrapping around the leg is a nice touch too.

Just some lighting practice. I'm really happy with the colours and effects in this one :)

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😂😂😂

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#bird #adorable #hilarious

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#cat #adorable

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Losing my mind over the artwork in the leaked DWD pitch

#disney #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #darkwing duck #concept art

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Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

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Heh, definitely one of your Coolest characters. ;3

There's a less-is-more approach to the design here that I REALLY like, it gives the scene a nicely Calm atmosphere that suits Kim perfectly. The light silky feel of the shirt especially really stands out to me, there isn't a lot of Detail to it as befits its nature but the details you include all give it just the right overall feel, particularly with how it subtle but effectively emphasizes the gentle grace of Kim's pose. REALLY struck by the look of the face here too; the curve of the nose evokes a seal snout in just the right way, and the signature feel of the eyes works perfectly in human form.

Midori One Day One Page 117!

Today it's the Ice Prince* himself - Kim the (not) Seal!

Commissions | Ko-Fi | Etsy

*not literally a prince despite the occasional rumor

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

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How do u get ur art to look like that?Like…rly, it’s so painterly but still has the saturation that I think makes digital art interesting. I’m getting into digital art but all my stuff looks so flat T-T any tips?

i'd say my #1 tip to making expressive art is to never over-polish! imperfection is good in expressive art. it's more raw. draw with your feelings, not what looks good in the technical sense. make it look like how your soul sees rather than how your eyes see. does that make sense? i hope that makes sense.

i feel the same way when it comes to colors. i try to make it look like what it FEELS like, rather than what it looks like. so the more intense and freeform the colors and shapes are, the better. anything to exaggerate the emotion.

maybe another tip i would give you to doing this is to always go back to your initial sketch layer every once in awhile when painting. it can be easy to get lost in trying to make it look polished and clean, but the sketch layer is always there to remind you what the piece felt like when you first put feeling into the page. i think those initial markings always reveal a lot of the original energy and care that birthed the desire to make the drawing in the first place, so it's always worth returning to.

so basically: 1. dont over polish 2. draw how you feel not how you see 3.when you get lost, chase down the feeling you started with and capture it again.

hope this helps!!

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One unanswered IZ question that still haunts me to this day?

What happened to them afterwards???

... given the nature of Zim tho, its probably best NOT to think about it...

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#cat #adorable #hilarious