grizandnorm

"The Art of Griz and Norm" is a tumblr that I follow with very helpful tips for animators, especially when it comes to character animation. Griz works at DreamWorks as a Visual Development artist, and Norm is a storyboard artist at Disney.

Even without context, their art is so full of life that you know it works. It is good to see things shown in the simplest style as well, making it a lot easier to apply to other styles.

These are just tips that they post on their tumblr, but I think that collected as a book it could be extremely useful. Of course there are other books that talk about similar things, but some of them are so stylised that it is hard to apply them to other styles, and they can often rabbit on for pages before getting to the actual points needed. Context is obviously a good thing to have, but it is always possibly to have too much of it.

These are tips that I am going to try to incorporate into my work as much as I can.