Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair is another helpful and useful book on animation. Blair explains his extensive knowledge in the diverse forms of animation as well as explaining his techniques and skills that he has and has gained. His book helps and describes how to create a cartoons body, shape, personality, features, expressions and mannerisms such as walking, running, stretching and dancing etc. As well as this, the book also includes famous character sketches, drawings and development. The images above are pages from within the incredibly helpful and informative book. A lot of his book is based on animal cartoons as well as humans, which I think makes the book a lot more interesting and diverse. Preston Blair is an animator who I look up to greatly and often look to for inspiration. He has worked with the likes of Disney and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. I read thoroughly through Blair’s book and it helped me gain many ideas on how to successfully develop my character and possibly others too.
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