How Pro Animators Draw in ANY Style

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Holy moly, those studies for Lackadaisy-- I never realized the amount of prep studio animators do before even starting to animate anything. That's stunning. I absolutely loved this Manu! I learned a lot! You touched on a lot of stuff that most other creators I've seen don't mention at all when discussing similar topics.

Huge respect to artists and animators for being able to do this, and huge respect to you for going through the process.

As an animator in the Japanese animation industry, there’s usually no time to learn to draw characters, so we just learn as we draw. So what I did (can’t really speak for others) is picked up observational drawing and learnt anatomy such from bridgeman books. Once you have anatomy down and your hands and eyes are coordinated, you’ll be able to tell why certain details are designed as they are in comparison to the human body in terms of style and proportions. Eventually, you’ll find it easy to combine all the references you have to create heads that aren’t even on the reference sheets. This apples to everything from animals to humans to clothes. Also a little note, shift and trace is still largely used in the Japanese industry. I’ve received corrections from sou sakkan artists with shifted head corrections, it makes subtle character acting a thousand times easier, especially with detailed drawings

"the faster you get those 10,00 ugly drawings outta you, the faster you'll get to the good ones" This describes my entire drawing experience lol. I've been drawing for almost 6 years and only started consistently making drawings i'm satisfied with around 6 motnhs ago. I'm now looking forward to digital illustration and maybe even animation! Because of that, videos like these help out a ton, amazing content!

A great and useful video, thank you for entertaining:)

Thank you from the BOTTOM of my heart, no one will EVER understand how much i appreciate the two production guide websites in 3:50

This really felt like a breathe of fresh air. Just being told that the first pass of making a character is going to suck. That hit home man. Great job love your content!

I began to lose my drawing ability once I got into an animation course as more of a technical/3D artist and saw everyone around me being so talented, but seeing this video really makes me want to at least get back to drawing some characters again. Thank you for the inspiration.

this is such a helpful video! I normally don't comment on these types of videos but the fact that you condensed atleast months worth of info into a 10 minute video is insane! cant wait to apply all of these~

I have done "Place and trace" without knowing it was a thing haha! Specially with head shapes and body proportions, it's really useful. Buen video mae!!!

to think this guy animated a youtube pilot about silly cats in the 1920s and also one of the most well known proper anime’s and was good at both…? he got some skill.

Ha, it's funny watching this as an animator. Years and years back, when I was learning to draw, me and my class friends asked our animation teacher about "art styles". I still remember him sighing, taking his huge glasses off and telling us "your style is what you can't draw". It was a real little nugget of concentrated wisdom.

Also, I'd like to add that not every production has a lot of production materials, and good indications on their character models.... I mostly work on japanese anime and there's usually not that much infos on the sheets :') The less infos you have, the harder it is to make something cool, so it's ok if your drawings are not perfect !! 5:05 I cannot agree more with this ;_; Often when I try to be super on model, I end up having stiff drawings... But at the same time, I can't just have rough drawings, or else it'll take too much time to clean !!! Because the japanise animation style allows it, I draw my key frames very roughly, then I'll clean those (like for a head turn 2 or 3 drawings are enough) and when I'm satisfied, I'll do my breakdowns more roughly, but since my key frames are superclean, I can be more efficient. It takes time, but eventually you'll be able to draw any characters from any model sheet, without practicing it first ! It's possible throught hard work !! Good luck everyone 😎

This was some solid advice! I already knew about the line of action and construction, but the other stuff present in this are worthwhile things to take note of, especially with the big project I'm trying to get skilled enough to make.

7:52 We'll be interested in any topic ya make... you're like a gold mine when it comes to animation information!

you always manage to explain things in the perfect way that allows me to grasp exactly what you're saying! I always find it hard to understand stuff so thank you

You answered a question that I had for a long time How pro animators are able to neatly copy artstyle it's the impressive thing under our noses that at the same time, no one seems to notice Like I've seen those "_ in different artstyle challenge" videos and despite expert artists struggle to replicate the style, at the end, you can still see a glimpse of their og stile

The trace and place technique and the emotions first are two things I never knew about before watching your video. Good thing too since I'm trying to start in the animation sphere

the point you made by "drawing the emotion" is one of the most valuable pieces of art advice i have heard. it's been said a million times that it's easy to get caught up in details/proportions, but you demonstrated it on paper better than any other art youtuber i have watched. keep at it, manumercurial.