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The making of Izzi Knott Cocky

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John Guthrie started work painting cinema foyer displays and now designs labels for Scotch whisky bottles. Both jobs have set him in good stead when it comes to his hobby of cartoon animation. My interest in making animated films was first aroused when I went to see “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” as a … Read more

Too much walking

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Morris Lakin reports on the progress of his first cartoon film and he makes an interesting discovery about walk cycles. I had got as far as scene two in my first cel production. In scene one the boy and girl characters had been established meeting and walking along the road. I wanted give the impression … Read more

Too much walking – Page 2

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Marked on the tunnel is the start of the motion – there seemed to be little point in doing the drawings before this because they would be too small to be seen and too tiny to draw! From the start point I will paint the tiny figures light grey since strong colour (or black) is … Read more

Trace and paint with Maggy Clark

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Maggy Clark tells Animator what paint and trace is all about. It is based on a taped interview conducted by David Jefferson. I started at Halas and Batchelor, like a little factory girl sitting there painting the white bits on the cels and somebody else did the red bits or whatever, and moved into tracing … Read more

Animated Sketch Book – Animals moving

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By Ian Witworth of Cosgrove-Hall Animation. Animals moving have a definite pattern to the order in which they move their legs. Study the dog walking – when the front left leg is moving forward the back right leg is also in motion. The sequence of the dog running shows that the front legs begin to … Read more