Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Archive: Dulac's Tanglewood Tales
Animation will be celebrating its 100th Birthday this April. But in all that time, the way an animated film looks has not been explored nearly as much as it should have been. From a design standpoint, cartoons have always been very imitative... In the 1930's dozens of characters looked like Mickey Mouse. Today, the main characters of animated features all look about the same. There's no reason why this has to be the case.
The purpose of the reference material I'm providing isn't to give you, the artist, a "cop file" that you can duplicate in your own work- It's to break down the essence of animation design... caricature, stylization, color, shapes, etc... so you can create new ways of seeing for those of us in the audience.
With that said, I offer these scans from Edmund Dulac's last great illustrated book, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales....
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Blog
Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive ¶ 9:07 PM
The purpose of the reference material I'm providing isn't to give you, the artist, a "cop file" that you can duplicate in your own work- It's to break down the essence of animation design... caricature, stylization, color, shapes, etc... so you can create new ways of seeing for those of us in the audience.
With that said, I offer these scans from Edmund Dulac's last great illustrated book, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales....
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Blog
Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive ¶ 9:07 PM
