Comments on: Preston Blair's "Advanced Animation" (1st Edition)

By: Sarang Bhargava

Sarang Bhargava — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:27 +0000

And if please someone mail me this book, its very concise and very handy…..

By: Sarang Bhargava

Sarang Bhargava — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:07 +0000

Mr.Preston Blair also has a concise book of around 32 pages, the one which has basics of drawing characters.Can somebody let me know where can I get that from???

By: Coolibu

Coolibu — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:25:46 +0000

Thank u so much!!!!

By: jayh

jayh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:26:26 +0000

So does anyone know where to get a copy of the revised book? Can't find it on Amazon right now…

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:10:31 +0000

On the site they compare the original version of the book with the reprint he was forced to make (After MGM changed their minds about letting him use their characters in his book). Like posters on the site, I agree that the original art was more alive. The original characters had more 'character'. The generic characters are constructed the same way (so the purpose of the book –to teach drawing animated characters– remains fulfilled), its just that the original art is so much better, even though there is more detail in the newer characters. Its like comparing the new Saturday morning cartoons vs. the old cartoons from the '30s and '40's. Something got lost along the way.

By: Squiggly_P

Squiggly_P — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:54:08 +0000

The entire ASIFA site is a hugely valuable resource for animation history and reference. I highly recommend digging around the site, as there are character sheets for hundreds of characters, sketch pages by tons of highly talented and creative artists spanning the history of animation and lots of information on specific animated films and shorts from the past. They are one of my more frequent online stops :D

By: Tx_Rx

Tx_Rx — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:55:34 +0000

Good to see the respect given to Stephen W's polite post.
Seems that the PDF's have been pulled from the above sites.
Make your own PDF but keep it off the web. :)

By: dave weese

dave weese — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:17:08 +0000

Fair enough Stephen. Thanks for the rapid clarification!

By: Stephen Worth

Stephen Worth — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:34:37 +0000

The material on the ASIFA site may still be protected by copyright. It is not public domain. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution. As such, we have special provisions of "fair use" under copyright law. Some of these provisions do not apply to individuals who might choose to redistribute our media files. You can use an image or two to accompany links to our articles, and feel free to use the material for reference yourself. But please don't repackage or redistribute the images or separate the media from the accompanying articles. For more information, please see the Terms of Use of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Thanks Stephen Worth Director ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

By: dave weese

dave weese — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:53:17 +0000

I put a comment about that on my site. This "book" has been freely available online for several years now. The later edition was even converted to a more web friendly format and somewhat expanded content. All freely available for download.

So assume if the jpeg images of the pages are free for everyone, a simple compilation to pdf with no modification should be fine – kind of like changing the jpegs to tga's.

If anyone knows better please help me out. I am under the impression that this content is in the public domain or something…..?

Like if someone mirrored my keying tutorial, I suppose I could see a situation why I might courteously ask them not to if I was depending on the exclusive of the web traffic the content created, but I don;t know if that would constitute a copyright violation…

Actually the more I think about it, I'm gonna take that link down. If anyone wants to save themselves the hassle of converting to pdf, email me.