| Animation Poses In all the scenes except for the first scene, the animation takes precedence over the background and so we will draw the animation poses first. You will find this will happen in a very high percentage of your layouts. Unless the character must directly interact with the background or some element of the background, the animation poses are drawn first. This doesn’t mean that you totally ignore the background, you still take it into consideration as you draw your poses. Take a blank sheet of animation paper and place it over the pose #1 paper. Using the model sheets and storyboard panel as reference, draw the first extreme pose of the character in the scene on this blank sheet of paper. Keep this drawing very rough, structural and gestural. Don’t worry about any details such as clothing or facial expressions. It shouldn’t take you any more than a minute or two to draw. Take another blank sheet of paper and repeat the above process with both the pose #1 paper and the rough pose just drawn. This time draw pose #2. Again, keep this drawing very rough, structural and gestural. As you draw this second pose, flip your two drawings to be sure the action looks right. Use the pose #1 sheet of paper with the blue field guide to check the position of your rough poses within the field area, specifically the T.V. cut off area. If your poses are not within the T.V. cut off area, you can make this correction later when you clean up your poses. If your character is simply drawn too big you may have to completely redraw your poses to get them the right size. This is no big deal because you’ve only spent about 5 minutes on these two sketches. Once you’re happy with the position and size of your poses, you can then transfer them to the actual animation pose paper. Begin this part by selecting a horizon line approximately around the chest level of Mustapha. Because these are two point perspective poses, select two vanishing points about 2” off to the sides of your animation paper. (This is just an approximate measurement). These two vanishing points will be your guide for drawing the character on all poses as well as the background. The clean up of each of your poses should take no more than about 30 minutes each. Read pages 173 to 178 in the “Layout And Design Made Amazingly Simple” book. |
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