Unit 2-Disney and Preston Blair

Disney

Disney started in 1919 where animator Walt dissent created a animation called Alice's wonderland, and became one of the biggest animation studios in the world. Disney continued to make animated films even after Walt's death, and has inspired many young animators. Disney was also home to the 9 old men, two of which created the animators bible( the illusion of life ) 

this book would inspire and teach young animators, man about the 12 principles of animation.

                                                                                   

Preston Blair  was born  on the 24th of October 1908, and died on the 19th of April 1995. He was an American animator of Disney, and wrote a book called ANIMATION. His book focuses on teaching animation and character design, like how to create effect cute characters or how to draw hand gestures.

Blair uses very round shapes in his art works and doesn't used much colour except for the back ground which is a mid tone colour.
 Blair uses a technique for reading cute characters, making the head larger compared to the size of the body, and this difference can make a very cute and appealing character. The medium that Blair used seems to be paper even mid tone paper. paper with a brownish colour to it. The pictures below are from Blairs book on animation and character design, and Blair draws many famous and recognisable characters in his book, and the pictures below are about creating cute character design and some examples of puppy character design. Blair has a more stylised drawings than realistic drawing, he may have drawn in this style as he may have believed that a more styled approach is more appealing.