David Nethery's Vimeo Vids and Blog

Animator David Nethery has posted a couple of great pencil tests and various other vids on his Vimeo account. He currently teaches at The Academy of Art University in San Fransisco. The blog he runs at AAU is also worth checking out 'Academy of Art Animation Notes'.

Acting Notes for Animators

I saw these notes the other day and found that some of them applied to animation. Despite being directed toward live action actors - many of the sample principles and directions apply to the animation industry. Most of the notes are common sense but it's always good to brush up on the basics. You might find a few nuggets of gold in there as well!

I took the liberty of editing these notes down to the pure meat so some sections might be out of order:

Animating 4 legged animals

I found this basic animation breakdown for 4 legged animals over on Animation Meat a while back. Cool stuff -- nice reminders for line of action, anatomy and simplicity of form.

Animating and Drawing 4-Legged Animals.PDF -- via Animation Meat

















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Gesture Drawing for Animation by Walter Stanchfield

A few days ago I stumbled across a .pdf of Walter Stanchfield's gesture drawing for animation notes that had been edited and compiled by Leo Brodie. This doc is filled will all kinds of wisdom (214 pages of awesomeness!!)

Download the PDF here: Gesture Drawing for Animation


Here are a few pages from the notes: