Link: Will Finn's Letter From Ward Kimball

STUDENTS! READ THIS LETTER!


Here is perhaps the best tip you'll get all year... Ward Kimball's advice for young animators. Thanks to Will Finn for sharing this!
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School: A Comment

I occasionally search blogs for new students starting the $100,000 Cartoon Drawing Course and to check out the progress students are making. Today, I ran across this post...

John K is a great teacher with charisma dripping from every word in his blog. This charisma is great for inspiration. He speaks of how great the old "golden age" of animation was, and of the decline in artistic skill in the animation trade today. My interpretation of his blogs intentions is that it is an aid in rebuilding animation as an artistic trade. What I mean by 'artistic trade' is a line of skilled manual artistic work.

To be a 'real' animator you do need a well developed skill set. Fortunately, for people like me, these skill sets (techniques/methods/practices/principles whatever you want to call them) have already been developed and refined.

Read the rest at Sam Howie's Animation Submarine

Sam "gets it". The $100,000 Cartoon Drawing Course is a lot tougher than it looks on the surface. But if you dig in and learn the fundamentals, you'll be well rewarded for your effort.

Get to work!

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Functional Drawing

NOTE: Do not move on to this lesson unless you have completed Lesson One, Lesson Two, Lesson Three, Lesson Four, Lesson Five, Lesson Six, Lesson Seven, Lesson Eight, Lesson Nine, and Lesson Ten

FUNCTIONAL DRAWING

Read John Kricfalusi's lesson at...
Functional Drawing Part One: Layout & Posing



I will add links to the further lessons in this topic as John posts them.

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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