From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Thumbnails
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Thumbnails
- Now it's time to look at thumbnails. Thumbnailing is the art of planning out your scene on a sheet of paper, so you can see all the different key poses at one time. If you're working in a different style of animation, like 3D, CGI, Flash, or any other style you really can't get away from this. Not thumbnailing is I think unthinkable and I'm going to show you why. So let's say I want to animate a scene where the character stands on the ground and does something simple, they scrunch down and jump up into the air with a big wahoo gesture. We can just start drawing it, animating it, but the problem is where do you even begin? So I like to begin with thumbnails. And the first thing we'll do is just on a sheet of paper, notepad, doesn't matter what, draw your ground plane. And then I'm going to very quickly just sketch in our starting position. And let's say he's looking up in this direction. You will notice I am not being precious about these drawings, these drawings are really just here…
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