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seen the Felix or Bonzo films you will know the kind of work
I mean.
We will presume you have a script or story ready to work
on. You must now draw up the characters in various posi-
tions, side, back, front, etc. These will be on separate sheets
for reference, called "Model Sheets". Using your animation
paper, sketch up the scenes and all the "bus~e'ss". Rough
sketches will do. You can now lay them out on the table
or the floor for consideration as a whole. Some sketches no
doubt will need revision and extra "business" added and you
will finally be ready to start animation. For an example let
us now start by drawing a cartoon figure walking acros~
the screen.
Draw a simple figure outline of a
man in a walking attitude about three
inches high on the right-hand side of
your paper facing left. Number the
drawing No. 1 in the bottom right-
hand corner. Put a circle round the
number as this will indicate a key
drawing. You need not make your
figure a cartoon character, but it will
simplify matters if you do. So shall
we start with a figure, say three-aJ;J.d-
Si.rnple cartoon figure 31!
heads high. Grosses on a-half heads high? One point 'in
j acket indicate areas to be using a typically cartoon figure is that
blaclced in it is easier to keep the "bulk" the
same. A figure that changes from
fat to thin in a walk would not look at all right.
Now place a sheet of paper on the pegs over the
first drawing and draw the same figure a step further
on. You can just indicate the position and then take
both sheets off the pegs and trace the same head and
body from drawing No. 1. Supposing we are going
to have three drawings in between these two. On
drawing No. 1 mark a key at the side like this.
Each drawing of a walk is photographed twice in
order to slow down the action and to avoid unneces- ·.
sary dr-awings, so by numbering your drawings with
odd numbers when working on two's, you are better ) '
able to judge the footage (the amount of film used). .
Also it is an indication that it is at "double" and 5
not "single" exposures. So remember the key you
have just roughly drawn would look like this (sketch
Sketd1. B
B) if at single exposures, only we are calling No. 2
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