Favorite Artists: Tex Avery

I'll be bouncing all over the place with these artists, by the way...
Two animators' names you should definitely know from Warner Bros. classic cartoons are Chuck Jones and Tex Avery (and Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson but we'll focus on Tex)

Tex pretty much established Bugs Bunny ("What's up, Doc ?" is his line, so the legend goes) and had a heavy influence on developing the fluid style that made Warner Bros. famous. he later went to MGM and you can definitely see a style that has been emulated by many other animators.

His gags are classic (lots of kissing) ... along with 1940's standards like female objectification.


A Wild Hare (1940)
(What I like to call 'Cro-Magnon Bugs')

Little Hot Riding Hood (1943)


Here's a bio of Tex

Here are 3 of Tex's model sheets. The silhouette of these characters and the flowing gesture of their design are great.

Favorite Artists: Hieronymous Bosch

Class,
Here's a link to one of my favorite artists. Bosch lived in the 1400's in Northern Europe and combined biblical narratives with traditional folk stories. Along with studies for his paintings, you'll find in his sketch books entire pages dedicated to people with disabilities and disfigurements; to witches; or, to monsters.

http://www.allpaintings.org/v/northern+renaissance/hieronymus+bosch/hieronymus+bosch+drawings/

Here is a link to his paintings:

http://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/artist-page-.html

Beyond the obvious subject matter, Bosch's style of cartooning and emphasis on posing the figure is wonderful to see. His line isn't really loose and gestural, yet he successfully captures so many different situations for his characters - pulling and lifting things, hobbling about in all sorts of manners, group poses. It's a great combination of pulling from one's imagination, in addition to seeing the world around you.

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Hello ! This is the official blog for the Fall 2010 CCAD course AN3151 - Cafe Sketch for Animators.
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