Love how you bring it all back to the basics. Sometimes I can feel overwhelmed with drawing a character and remembering these tools helps me get back into it.
Mister Aaron Blaise I did not know you are one of the artists who make Lion King and Beauty and the Beast. I am a big big fan of Disney and the great work of Disney artist like you.
Sometimes I can feel so down about my hard and everything seems so difficult and complex. When I hear Aaron's voice though it all melts away and everything makes so much sense.
I don't even know how hand drawn, smooth animation is even possible when you have to make the proportions/sizes match continuously and make the lines meet.
Hello, sir! Thank you very much for your channel, especially videos such as these that really give an in-depth experience of the process of animating traditionally. It's nice seeing someone work with physical mediums up close. I will be going into my third semester of school this fall as a student animator and it has helped me better understand my animation basics when studio lessons must be shown in a timely manor to a large class. I found it easy to understand movement conceptually during my first animation studio, but like most, found trying to fit in some details of drag difficult to grasp without direct explanation from the busy professor. This lesson (which you have so kindly offered to anyone via RUclips) has helped me greatly in visualizing weight shift with shapes and given me insight on how to get the most out of character expressions. This reassured me that I'm hopefully on a decent path with my study drawings in my workbook. Thanks again! Best regards.
Thanks for the kind words and thanks a bunch for watching!
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thank you so much, man. You probably don't konw, but you are my great Mentor. I'm learning important things in here. I hope you have more and more Success!
I really liked the tip about < and >. I messed around with it in my own drawings and it really gave some more life to the character! I'd love to see more of this - especially with more human characters!
I really enjoyed this new masetr class on traditional animation. You can see the years of mastering in each line and drawing. BTW, the camera man has his own protagonism on the show. :)
OMG thank you so much for this, you don't know how grateful I am for this channel, i watch your videos everyday, and i have improve tons, i know the process is slow, but i cant wait to do my own animations, yet again thanks.
Absolutely love your videos, they have thaught me a lot! It would be really cool if you did a video showing us some of your really old work so we can see your Evolution in art and stuff, I'd really enjoy seeing that:)
Thank you so much! This has been really helpful. Like a lot of others, I had been drawing it, trying to make it look like the final frames, and was having a hard time with the motion.
Thank you so much Mr Aaron This is incredibly inspiring for me, such a master class !! I am super grateful I wish you could do many more like this, if that is possible Cheers from Colombia :D
drawing the muzzle for the bearing is hard for me even though I've drawn from long time since I've never really drawn bears, but I love to learn you are a great person to learn from it enjoy your work most my inspirations were from you and I'm actually self taught artist and sometimes I love how you said about bring back the basic shapes and not getting into details so fast and your clearly right because sometimes I don't use basic shapes I sometimes go to the details and not knowing about the basic shapes. your one of my idols
Two points I see repeated a lot in this video are to do the initial phase quickly / roughly to avoid becoming caught up in the detail (a weakness of mine) and to emphasise brows / mouths to create expression. You also used a first and last phase to begin with and filled in the rest as you went, which isn't something I'd considered doing before. I'll definitely try to implement these in my work from now on ^^
Nice to see a fellow left handed artist! You rly inspire me and its nice to know that I'm not the only one who draws left handed XD these are some very helpful tips btw! 👍
great video!! I'd love to see something about how the light and shade on a moving character are done in animation to look consistent... do you treat it like other animation objects and think of how the shade lines move or do you just shade everything with the same lightsource and it adds up? don't know if I'm making sense.. :D
Cool! I never thought to meet an orginal draftsman of Walt Disney on RUclips. I´ve found you by pure chance. I hope I learn a lot of you. I´m from Germany.
I am learning so much from you. You have helped a very great deal about keeping loose. I can now draw just by watching you at the zoos and on farms. I thank you for all this. I am learning a great deal from you.
It's gratifying to know that someone who is left-handed can do so well at animation! When I was a kid, I tried doing calligraphy but I quickly discovered that artform is terribly slanted toward the right-handed so I gave up and stuck to drawing. Animation seems really interesting and apparently isn't affected by handedness so I might give it a try!
I don't think the hand you write with has anything to do with the way you draw. This is just from my experience, but I've had many ambidextrous and left handed friends who have amazing hand writing and can't draw, same with a lot of right handed people I know. A lot of people I see make it a big deal that they're left handed. But really, who cares?
I don't think it actually has to do with anything besides the way you hold an instrument like the guitar or something. I get the calligraphy thing because you pull more one way, but I don't see why you'd give up just because you can't get it easily.
On this channel i finally saw that there is still hope out there for traditional animators too! ( i love traditional animation ) Thank you Blaise for the beautiful videos!
Hey Aaron, I’m working on a pegasus animation, and I’m having trouble animating the wings so it would be very helpful if you did a live stream or course, on flapping wings from a side view, and the speed they would flap at. I love your animation btw, keep up the great work!
So basically you are talking about keeping to the basics by utilizing basic shapes first and moving on to the details. Seriously, it's a very good basic (I can't help it) lesson. I get a lot out of WATCHING you work as you speak. Thumbs up!
When I would do occasional sketches I had a problem getting the proportions right, until I started with a light sketch of basic shapes that conveyed the overall effect I wanted. Then I add the details to match on top of that, and I got a much better result.
This was very fun to watch and I learned a lot. It might be fun if maybe you did something like "How to design a prince character" or something along those lines. We could follow along and maybe turn in an assignment of what we did. A critique from you would be gold . Just a thought.
thank you for this video it helped me :) i really wanted to become an animator someday, especially hand drawn animation. By the way may i ask if you studied in animation or art class before being an animator? :)
***** Paper is not cheap and the world has a limited quantity of trees you know. Besides, the folds that are a result of rough handling can break and even distort the lines of your drawing. I don't think that last part matters in animation, but since I don't do animation but fine art, it really does matter a lot to me how a paper is treated.
+The Art of Aaron Blaise Okay, well the reason I ask is because I love animation drawings, sketches, visual developments from lead supervising animators and clean up artists. I'm an artist myself, so I love being apart of the animation team.
that was extremely informative , thank you so much . i learned a lot since i knew about your channel.. i really would like to know what program you use after you scan your drawings . again thank you so much for all your advises and your work you share with us.
I am enjoying your work so much. I would love to see you work on a horse with a lazy attitude. Also, I would love to have your take on scenery. Something simple .
The StormingDragon I Know😊 Just remember, you don't need to latch to big names to make it big. Just keep Faith, Keep hope and keep trying !Have a blessed day😊😊😊😊😊
Been trying to create a dinosaur character (An Allosaurus, more specifically) and I’m not used to that weird facial structure but this video helped a lot.
Hey Aaron! I love your work! I was wondering, what do you think about modern television animation? Ive only seen less than a handful of non lazy ones, even the Simpsons which used to have great animation is very bland now. One show which has very good animation is Gravity Falls, but that's all i can really think of. What are your thoughts on that?
hi aaron! I was wondering maybe you can teach us about other animals like foxes? or dogs? I see a lot of bears and cats but I can never figure out dogs or foxes...have you ever had to draw them before? maybe you can do a tutorial about them on Photoshop perhaps? I would really appreciate it!
+RandomnizeMe Thanks for the feedback. As soon as I finish my new Character Design Class, which I am filming now, I'll be releasing some new animal course and videos. Some will be free on RUclips and some will be for sale on my site. CreatureArtTeacher.com
oh wow okay!! I didn't think you were gonna see my comment lol but I cant wait to see your next videos! I look forward to it thanks! and ill check out the site too
I don't know if you'll answer this or if this is exactly the appropriate place to ask you, but I figure if anyone else may have this same or similar question it could help. I've been watching your channel for a little while now and have been planning on purchasing a few of your courses and anyway, I figured you would be a great place to start, my two questions are 1.) Do you have any advice on building a good art portfolio? I would like to go into a Masters program for animation and they want a good portfolio showing your best. 2.) what would you suggest that one would study to improve? I know 2 big ones are practice and observing and drawing from real life. If you do answers this, a big thank you to you and I really enjoy your work and your channel.
Hi Mr. Aaron Blaise. I was wondering if there is any kind of a straight-forward, and somewhat easy way to animate scenes using a pencil, paper, a scanner, photoshop, and an animation software. I have experience animating when I was younger, mainly in flash, and easytoon. However, after using a graphics tablet for my sketches digitally, I honestly just really didn't like how it felt. Not being able to rotate the canvas and see it in front of me to do my strokes from a different angle, and to see my drawing from different angles instantly. I do not have a light box, so I'm not sure of a proper workflow/strategy of animating frame by frame on paper. Would making a sketch, scanning it, erasing the first frame then using the ghost of the previous frame as a reference be a viable strategy?
Hey Arron,I just wanted to say that artists like you have inspired me to become an animator myself,But i often feel like my drawings and sketches,While they are decent,I also feel that their too 2 dimensional and stiff,So do you have any advice on how I can add some more fluidity to them?
Love how you bring it all back to the basics. Sometimes I can feel overwhelmed with drawing a character and remembering these tools helps me get back into it.
omg hello Tennelle ;0;
I watch of few of his videos before I sit down to my desk. It helps.
Didn't expect to find you here tennelle, pleasent surprise
I’m a big fan!
Wow tennlle! Has it been a long time!
First you draw a head, then you erase a few details and there, a circle thingy.
Words of Sponge Bob
BirdComixStudios omg this helped me so much xD
RIPPY BITS!!!!
Tbh spongebob is a genius
Mister Aaron Blaise
I did not know you are one of the artists who make Lion King and Beauty and the Beast. I am a big big fan of Disney and the great work of Disney artist like you.
Sometimes I can feel so down about my hard and everything seems so difficult and complex. When I hear Aaron's voice though it all melts away and everything makes so much sense.
I don't even know how hand drawn, smooth animation is even possible when you have to make the proportions/sizes match continuously and make the lines meet.
practice
Love to see someone take time out of their day to just to help. Great at always Aaron
So cool watching a master at work. Like magic.
When I want to draw a triangle I always start with the beast first, always end up with a real symmetry to my triangle :)
Hello, sir! Thank you very much for your channel, especially videos such as these that really give an in-depth experience of the process of animating traditionally. It's nice seeing someone work with physical mediums up close. I will be going into my third semester of school this fall as a student animator and it has helped me better understand my animation basics when studio lessons must be shown in a timely manor to a large class. I found it easy to understand movement conceptually during my first animation studio, but like most, found trying to fit in some details of drag difficult to grasp without direct explanation from the busy professor. This lesson (which you have so kindly offered to anyone via RUclips) has helped me greatly in visualizing weight shift with shapes and given me insight on how to get the most out of character expressions. This reassured me that I'm hopefully on a decent path with my study drawings in my workbook. Thanks again! Best regards.
Thanks for the kind words and thanks a bunch for watching!
thank you so much, man. You probably don't konw, but you are my great Mentor. I'm learning important things in here. I hope you have more and more Success!
Great demo! I learned a lot once again. Went through the video taking notes and copying down important steps.
Thanks for sharing this on RUclips Aaron! Great to see you animate!
Id love to see more of these basic stuff :) I followd your steps and all of a sudden I had drawn a cute bear!
I really liked the tip about < and >. I messed around with it in my own drawings and it really gave some more life to the character!
I'd love to see more of this - especially with more human characters!
Aaron Hands down your the best teacher of animation & Art I have ever Sean, Hope you never stop teaching your amazing!
Always a joy to watch. Thanks for helping me, "elevate my game" as well.
I really enjoyed this new masetr class on traditional animation. You can see the years of mastering in each line and drawing. BTW, the camera man has his own protagonism on the show. :)
+Albert Casado Thank you! I like the camera work as well. Definitely helps with the "LIVE"
aspect
Aaron, you're amazing! I'm studying animation in florida and you came to our university once. Keep inspiring people!
This illustration is perfection
Thanks you very much Aaron for your generosity . And you give hope to all the left handed artistes out there 😀
You're such an amazing animator. I want to be great like you!
So fun following along with your drawing!
Awesome! Thank you for all the insane amount of teaching! Great value! Thank you so much!
Thank you for doing these! I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to create these
super work you're doing , I would have liked the experience where you have to teach yourself everything I 've started this year so
OMG thank you so much for this, you don't know how grateful I am for this channel, i watch your videos everyday, and i have improve tons, i know the process is slow, but i cant wait to do my own animations, yet again thanks.
Absolutely love your videos, they have thaught me a lot!
It would be really cool if you did a video showing us some of your really old work so we can see your Evolution in art and stuff, I'd really enjoy seeing that:)
Aaron you are great and are of immense inspiration for artists and animators
I follow your tips and they are making me better surprisingly fast. Thank you man.
Thank you so much! This has been really helpful. Like a lot of others, I had been drawing it, trying to make it look like the final frames, and was having a hard time with the motion.
This is absolutely amazing!! I wonder how many pages a day you guys did back for a movie like Beauty and the Beast. Incredible! Thank you for sharing!
I learned a ton
thanks for sharing
new subscriber, old artist. love the videos. very inspirational. thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Mr Aaron
This is incredibly inspiring for me, such a master class !!
I am super grateful
I wish you could do many more like this, if that is possible
Cheers from Colombia :D
Wow! Such a breakthough for me! I've been so stuck. Thanks Aaron! Incredible work!
Ironically enough your bear tips actually really helped with my big cats, thank you again for these videos! you are a true hero! XD
I’m not really into animating but I have such an admiration for their bad assness. This man is a badass:)
Just beautiful. Thanks for making the video available to non-FB users.
drawing the muzzle for the bearing is hard for me even though I've drawn from long time since I've never really drawn bears, but I love to learn you are a great person to learn from it enjoy your work most my inspirations were from you and I'm actually self taught artist and sometimes I love how you said about bring back the basic shapes and not getting into details so fast and your clearly right because sometimes I don't use basic shapes I sometimes go to the details and not knowing about the basic shapes. your one of my idols
Love your tutorials, Aaron :)
Amazing fast you work!! Congratulations!! You are a pro!!
It's been a while since your last vid, glad to see a new one!
this, is amazing. I REALLY am blessed to find this video! I always needed need something like this lol
Two points I see repeated a lot in this video are to do the initial phase quickly / roughly to avoid becoming caught up in the detail (a weakness of mine) and to emphasise brows / mouths to create expression. You also used a first and last phase to begin with and filled in the rest as you went, which isn't something I'd considered doing before. I'll definitely try to implement these in my work from now on ^^
Nice to see a fellow left handed artist! You rly inspire me and its nice to know that I'm not the only one who draws left handed XD these are some very helpful tips btw! 👍
great video!! I'd love to see something about how the light and shade on a moving character are done in animation to look consistent... do you treat it like other animation objects and think of how the shade lines move or do you just shade everything with the same lightsource and it adds up? don't know if I'm making sense.. :D
Thanks a lot! This was very good to watch
oh my God you're so amazing! All the love from Brazil!
fun to watch, thanks
wow. that's cool the clean up Keys
Dat circle is so beautiful I'm gunna cry
Wow. I always find it amazing that people can draw left-handed or are ambidextrous. I feel so uncoordinated from looking at it.
Thank you for sharing your expertise I really appreciate it!
so talented !
Cool! I never thought to meet an orginal draftsman of Walt Disney on RUclips. I´ve found you by pure chance. I hope I learn a lot of you. I´m from Germany.
I am learning so much from you. You have helped a very great deal about keeping loose. I can now draw just by watching you at the zoos and on farms. I thank you for all this. I am learning a great deal from you.
It's gratifying to know that someone who is left-handed can do so well at animation! When I was a kid, I tried doing calligraphy but I quickly discovered that artform is terribly slanted toward the right-handed so I gave up and stuck to drawing. Animation seems really interesting and apparently isn't affected by handedness so I might give it a try!
I don't think the hand you write with has anything to do with the way you draw. This is just from my experience, but I've had many ambidextrous and left handed friends who have amazing hand writing and can't draw, same with a lot of right handed people I know. A lot of people I see make it a big deal that they're left handed. But really, who cares?
I don't think it actually has to do with anything besides the way you hold an instrument like the guitar or something. I get the calligraphy thing because you pull more one way, but I don't see why you'd give up just because you can't get it easily.
Ah this is gorgeous
Thank you!
where can i get one of those animation boards you have in your videos? i can't find them anywhere and it would be incredibly helpful for me.
On this channel i finally saw that there is still hope out there for traditional animators too! ( i love traditional animation ) Thank you Blaise for the beautiful videos!
LOVED!
OMG so so so beautiful!!!!💕 to much
Hey Aaron, I’m working on a pegasus animation, and I’m having trouble animating the wings so it would be very helpful if you did a live stream or course, on flapping wings from a side view, and the speed they would flap at. I love your animation btw, keep up the great work!
So basically you are talking about keeping to the basics by utilizing basic shapes first and moving on to the details. Seriously, it's a very good basic (I can't help it) lesson. I get a lot out of WATCHING you work as you speak. Thumbs up!
When I would do occasional sketches I had a problem getting the proportions right, until I started with a light sketch of basic shapes that conveyed the overall effect I wanted. Then I add the details to match on top of that, and I got a much better result.
Good job
This was very fun to watch and I learned a lot. It might be fun if maybe you did something like "How to design a prince character" or something along those lines. We could follow along and maybe turn in an assignment of what we did. A critique from you would be gold . Just a thought.
Thank you so much! Love your tutorials :)
thank you for this video it helped me :) i really wanted to become an animator someday, especially hand drawn animation. By the way may i ask if you studied in animation or art class before being an animator? :)
Do animators always treat their papers so roughly? That poor paper...!
Anyways, great insight, thanks for sharing!
Are you really grieving for pieces of paper lmao
*****
Paper is not cheap and the world has a limited quantity of trees you know. Besides, the folds that are a result of rough handling can break and even distort the lines of your drawing. I don't think that last part matters in animation, but since I don't do animation but fine art, it really does matter a lot to me how a paper is treated.
+ThatOnePerson I didn't mean to come off rude so I apologize, I was only asking haha. I guess just the way you worded it amused me.
*****
;)
trees sort of... grow.
omg man i love this stuff so much true animator right here!!!
Oh the brother bear days
I luv that movie
only if it sucks shit
Meee tooo!
Crabby Abby h
Admiro tus trabajos, saludos desde peru The Art of Aaron Blaise :D
You did a good job on your Disney characters.
Perfect!
Where did you bought the things for the traditional 2D animation? I mean the thing that you use to put the paper in that place
Is it normal to want to cry watching this video?
Thanks!! Helped me with a gif i made
Excuse me Mr. Aaron Blaise. Can you show how did you became the supervising animator for Young Nala from the Lion King?
+Joseph Parker I stated at Disney in 1989 and worked my way up form the bottom. That's really the only way to do it. You have to persist.
+The Art of Aaron Blaise Okay, well the reason I ask is because I love animation drawings, sketches, visual developments from lead supervising animators and clean up artists. I'm an artist myself, so I love being apart of the animation team.
+The Art of Aaron Blaise Director brother Bear
that was extremely informative , thank you so much . i learned a lot since i knew about your channel..
i really would like to know what program you use after you scan your drawings . again thank you so much for all your advises and your work you share with us.
I am enjoying your work so much. I would love to see you work on a horse with a lazy attitude. Also, I would love to have your take on scenery. Something simple
.
good job :D 👍👍👍
hello thanks for tthe demo, may i ask what pencil are you using here ?
thank you so much for your lessons! when I grow up I wanna be in Disney! :D
The StormingDragon Why not just be on your own?
that is harder to make, I guess I could try it, but my man goal is to try and get into Dreamworks or Disney
The StormingDragon I Know😊 Just remember, you don't need to latch to big names to make it big. Just keep Faith, Keep hope and keep trying !Have a blessed day😊😊😊😊😊
This drawing speed is insane :O
Been trying to create a dinosaur character (An Allosaurus, more specifically) and I’m not used to that weird facial structure but this video helped a lot.
Hey Aaron! I love your work! I was wondering, what do you think about modern television animation? Ive only seen less than a handful of non lazy ones, even the Simpsons which used to have great animation is very bland now. One show which has very good animation is Gravity Falls, but that's all i can really think of. What are your thoughts on that?
hi aaron! I was wondering maybe you can teach us about other animals like foxes? or dogs? I see a lot of bears and cats but I can never figure out dogs or foxes...have you ever had to draw them before? maybe you can do a tutorial about them on Photoshop perhaps? I would really appreciate it!
+RandomnizeMe Thanks for the feedback. As soon as I finish my new Character Design Class, which I am filming now, I'll be releasing some new animal course and videos. Some will be free on RUclips and some will be for sale on my site. CreatureArtTeacher.com
oh wow okay!! I didn't think you were gonna see my comment lol but I cant wait to see your next videos! I look forward to it thanks! and ill check out the site too
I don't know if you'll answer this or if this is exactly the appropriate place to ask you, but I figure if anyone else may have this same or similar question it could help. I've been watching your channel for a little while now and have been planning on purchasing a few of your courses and anyway, I figured you would be a great place to start, my two questions are 1.) Do you have any advice on building a good art portfolio? I would like to go into a Masters program for animation and they want a good portfolio showing your best. 2.) what would you suggest that one would study to improve? I know 2 big ones are practice and observing and drawing from real life. If you do answers this, a big thank you to you and I really enjoy your work and your channel.
I love your vidoes.
Hi Mr. Aaron Blaise. I was wondering if there is any kind of a straight-forward, and somewhat easy way to animate scenes using a pencil, paper, a scanner, photoshop, and an animation software. I have experience animating when I was younger, mainly in flash, and easytoon. However, after using a graphics tablet for my sketches digitally, I honestly just really didn't like how it felt. Not being able to rotate the canvas and see it in front of me to do my strokes from a different angle, and to see my drawing from different angles instantly.
I do not have a light box, so I'm not sure of a proper workflow/strategy of animating frame by frame on paper. Would making a sketch, scanning it, erasing the first frame then using the ghost of the previous frame as a reference be a viable strategy?
Hey Arron,I just wanted to say that artists like you have inspired me to become an animator myself,But i often feel like my drawings and sketches,While they are decent,I also feel that their too 2 dimensional and stiff,So do you have any advice on how I can add some more fluidity to them?
you're a genius
Thank for ur video Amazing
So Lightly Draw The Shapes? Then Draw Hard On The Details?
what software are you using 😕
What kind of pencil dou you use ?
Hi can you do a how to animate big cats like you have shown some of your big cat animations on Instagram and I'm curious how to do that😊
i really want to do animation, but i can't find the right website or something like that to use. i need an expert, can you help me?
What kind of paper did you use?
Thanks man, that's help alot ^^