{"id":132476,"date":"2025-03-14T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/animation-tips-n-tricks-shugo-tokumaru\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:57:37","slug":"animation-tips-n-tricks-shugo-tokumaru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=132476","title":{"rendered":"Animation Tips &#8216;n&#8217; Tricks \u2014 Shugo Tokumaru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"278\" data-orig-height=\"278\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/aaf29bebf174585e07f99185f583c191\/tumblr_inline_nsvpdsnQft1t39148_400.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"278\" data-orig-height=\"278\" width=\"278\" height=\"278\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen is \u201cgeneric\u201d good?<br \/>When it is highly skilled as in these Tom and Jerry model sheets below. <\/p>\n<p>I always recommend to animation students to draw Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig and Tom and Jerry when learning.<\/p>\n<p>Generic is good for study.<br \/>If you are trying to teach yourself the principles of good cartoon drawing for example, it\u2019s best to study bland cartoons that don\u2019t have individual style. Strong style will distract your attention away from the underlying principles that are more important. <\/p>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"500\" data-orig-height=\"582\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/3f65cf73cad51dd28a61efc6fe22f596\/tumblr_inline_nsvpjaeKni1t39148_500.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"500\" data-orig-height=\"582\" width=\"500\" height=\"582\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Why?<br \/>They are fairly simple and very rounded.<br \/>When you are animating you have to turn out a lot of drawings.<br \/>The more complicated the drawing, the longer it will take you to make the animation work.<br \/>NEVER use your own character designs when you are learning to animate.<br \/>It will slow your progress.<\/p>\n<p>Use characters that were designed by top Hollywood professionals that already work in 3 dimensions and are simple. You will progress much faster that way.\u201d &#8211; John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren &amp; Stimpy<\/p>\n<p>For the full post go here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnkstuff.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/05\/animation-school-lesson-1-construction.html\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/johnkstuff.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/06\/animation-school-7-when-generic-is.html\">http:\/\/johnkstuff.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/06\/animation-school-7-when-generic-is.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: John K Stuff Blog<\/p>\n<p>Source: Preston Blair, Cartoon Animation<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FCartoon-Animation-Collectors-Preston-Blair%2Fdp%2F1560100842&amp;t=YzYxODliNTU3MWQ0ZTkyZWQwM2QwMDg0YmVhYjczZDE5NzAwODZjYyxObDZINFZVMQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AYCY6O7LN0AV25BYtjd1bCg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fanimationtnt.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F126911790827%2Fjohn-ks-animation-school-7-when-generic-is-a&amp;m=1&amp;ts=1741939057\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cartoon-Animation-Collectors-Preston-Blair\/dp\/1560100842<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more animation tips, tricks &amp; free resources go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.hiive.co.uk\/swarms\/animation-tips-tricks\/111\/#\/\">https:\/\/app.hiive.co.uk\/swarms\/animation-tips-tricks\/111\/#\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen is \u201cgeneric\u201d good?When it is highly skilled as in these Tom and Jerry model sheets below. I always recommend to animation students to draw Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig and Tom and Jerry when learning. Generic is good for study.If you are trying to teach yourself the principles of good cartoon drawing for example, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12035],"tags":[32400,6119,3271,16734,57413,40140,3535,57414,660],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-132476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","tag-animate","tag-animation","tag-anime","tag-ghibli","tag-shugo","tag-stop-motion","tag-tips","tag-tokumaru","tag-tricks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Animation Tips &#039;n&#039; Tricks \u2014 Shugo Tokumaru - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=132476\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Animation Tips &#039;n&#039; Tricks \u2014 Shugo Tokumaru - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWhen is \u201cgeneric\u201d good?When it is highly skilled as in these Tom and Jerry model sheets below. 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