I’ve been studying animation for 2 years now and to be honost I haven’t learned a darn thing. I have an upcoming short of about 45 seconds and I decided to do it hand drawn so I would improve my drawing skills for when I start my graduation short along with Bartel Bruneel and Emilie Timmermans, two of the most talented individuals I have ever met. I have the constant fear of not beeing able to create such quality work as they do and the fear that it might ruin our collaboration, our short. Therefor I started focusing on the animation principles and drawing with a constant quality in my first short. Recently I have been going into the habbit of buying disney dvd’s whenever I can find them ( a costly hobby if you ask me). A recent Disney-DVD I purchased was ‘The Emperor’s Groove”, I must say that I was surprised by the quality of both storytelling aswell as animation. I’ve watched it three times now and every time it just gives me that spark of courage to lock myself up in my room and animate, in the hopes of one day creating such beautifull work.
For those unfamiliar with “The Emperor’s Groove”, here’s a scene I uploaded onto YouTube :
Plus some playlists from YouTube with linetests and more from various animators :
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6750EDA621B8A011
To end with a happy note ,a quote from Mel Brooks :
What’s the difference between TRADGEDY and COMEDY ?
ANSWER :
Comedy is when you are walking down the street and you fall into an open manhole
Tradgedy is when I’M walking down the street and I’M falling down the open manhole.
Ciao
Mathieu VIerendeel
