Clean Up Requirements For Drawing Cartoon Simple

Production Approach to Clean-up Animation 02-

A hand-drawn character has to stay consistent in movement textures while looking on-model, flowing seamlessly from scene to scene as if just one animator created it.

And in feature production, maintaining a character's look to be on-model is very achievable.  However, to maintain a consistency to the movement texture of such surface details like clothing articles are more challenging within a group effort, because each animator will likely sense the flow of such particular fabric differently.

There are 2 ways to overcome this difficulty. One is to enable a single animator to handling a block of successive scenes.  Another is to have just one designated assisting animator to tie-down a block of scenes and addressing the overall follow-through while following the established character performance in the rough pass from the various animators.

When viewing a classic Disney film such as Snow White, each character looked, moved and feels very consistently as if just one animator animated the entire character.  From my observation, the clean-up process was quite different back in those days.  The role of the animator was to arrive at the essence of a performance, opting to leave out many surface movement details undefined.  The rough animation is then followed up by the assistant animator, putting character into final model and completing the remaining surface animation such as clothing articles.

The assistant animator in this production approach is very well capable at animating and only missing the ability to generate a compelling performance.

In the above clip from July Films 'My Little WORLD', the scenes were animated by 3 different animators (my friends Steve Wong, Casey Alexander and Michael Koizumi); each kept rough with right characters proportion but not needing to be exact on model.  I tie-down the 3 scenes and the final clean-up lines by my other friends.

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Clean Up Requirements For Drawing Cartoon Simple

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