Sketching for Animation: Developing Ideas, Characters and Layouts in Your Sketchbook

by Peter Parr

Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of examples, exercises and tips from an army of professional animators to help you develop essential sketching, technical drawing and ideation techniques.

With interviews and in-depth case studies from some of today's leading animators, including Bill Plympton, Glen Keane, Tori Davis and John Canemaker, this is a unique guide to turning your sketchbook - the world's cheapest, most portable pre-visualisation tool - into your own personal animation armory.

Genres: Animation, Drawing, Art

352 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2016

Reviews

[Tinkie]

Again, a valuable lesson for an artist. I did get some new insights and tips for animation and sketching, which is always nice. Parr keeps saying how important it is to keep a sketchbook at hand. He literally wrote a whole book about it, so yeah, I do agree. Now that I've read the book, I'll probably take my sketchbook with me more often, just to get the feeling of drawing live instead of from a picture. I also appreciate the way Parr tackles art problems. It's probably not the way I would do it, but I like the insight, and it sort of inspires me to do it another way around! I unfortunately did not do any assignments, but hopefully I'll come back to those to try them out!