Animators I Like.

Animators that I know of;

Ubbe Eert Iwerks (UB Iwerks),
Born March 24, 1901 - Died July 7, 1971.

Iwerks was a young starting animator, who actually was good friends with the well known animator Disney, he was the first animator to follow Disney to his success and help to create the beginning characters that are well known by everyone in the Disney company and around the world, such as Mickey Mouse. He was also responsible for the creation of other characters such as Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, who were rejected by Disney himself when presented to him.

Horace Horsecollar;

Clarabelle Cow;

Iwerks worked in an commercial ad company alongside Disney for sometime, until Disney had a falling out with the company which led him to leave and move to L.A in hopes of becoming successful with his own business, Iwerks followed him along the way, presenting sketch character designs which alternatively got rejected often by Disney.

After a lengthy time spent with Disney, Iwerks felt like he was being mistreated by him, and not credited enough for drawing majority of Disney's greatest animated characters. He couldn't live under the harsh command that Walt Disney had now and so left, accepting a business opportunity from Disney's rival known as Pat Powers. This decision in the end cut off his business partnership and friendship with Walt Disney. And for some time Walt Disney and his business suffered harshly with the loss of Iwerks, but in the end started to pick up when he hired a bunch of young animators to work for him.

Iwerks however didn't seem to achieve such fortune with his business opportunity as a lot of his short animated comedies/series/films went unnoticed and never really got recognised, he was responsible for many creations but they never really drew the public eye.

Iwerks died at the age of 70 in 1971 of a heart attack in Burbank, California.

Picture of Ubb Eert Iwerks.

Walt Elias Disney (Walt Disney)
Born December 5, 1901 - Died December 15, 1966.

(Not finished)

Adobe Animate (Tutorial)

Creating The Stickman;

The first step is to open up the application and create a new scene, like so;

Then once you have started a new scene you begin to create the actual stickman, using the oval tool and the line tool, to make a basic stick man figure but it is important to do it in a certain way.

So first go to the line tool and make sure it is set to 11 on stroke, in order to make sure the stickman body is not too thin.

 And then drag it down the page to create a straight single line.

Once done with that select the oval tool and make sure it is set to 11 too.

And place a circle shape onto of the line, so you end up with something like this; 

Then go down to layers and name it "Torso"

This is the first section done. 

Now you make another line with the line tool. 

 This will be the arm, and it now needs to have movement and joints added to it, you do this by using the bone tool;

(Could not continue this post, or project as the project broke and too many things went wrong with the timing and flow of the animated stickman.)

Character Design (For Animation)

My animation project is going to be a collaboration with my friend called Lucy Burgess in the course with me , I will be designing a small and grumpy looking dog that will eventually be tied in conflict with my friends design which will be a postwoman, he is going to be very small and yappy, and the story line will be based on the postwoman trying to deliver the mail to the door in which the dog sits in the front garden waiting for any person to try and come onto the lawn. The animation is going to be based on conflict so that is why we have decided to make the dog very grumpy and territorial. It will only be roughly 15-20 seconds long but will have enough in it to show the messages we're trying to get across.

I will now show some character design templates done by me and Lucy to show progress of the animation and the characters themselves.



This is a basic character design made by Lucy Burgess for the postwoman character of the animation:

This is Lucy's attempt at drawing my character Spud.

Here is more work of the character Carol that Lucy has made; 

This is a character design template drawn by me to represent the small dog.

NOT YET POSTED.
This is spud, an attempt of Lucy trying to draw my character;

This is a small clip of Spud, the dog character I have made for the animation, and this is one of the scenes.

Here is another short animation clip of a scene with Spud.

Here is another scene on my character, just to show further progression. 

This is the simple chase that Spud does at the end.