Animating the Looney Tunes Way

by Tony Cervone

With Tony Cervone, Director, Warner Bros. Animation Finally, here is the book everyone has been waiting for--a complete guide to animating in the style of the great Warner Bros. cartoonists. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560103035
• ISBN13: 9781560103035
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

This is animation!

My main complaint about most books on animation is that they don't really show you the crude nature of the drawings you actually animate with. The Preston Blair book, in most respects my favorite, starts with very worked out structural drawings. But for most of its life, right up until just before clean-up, an animated character is a stick figure based on the line of action with a few swirls to indicate the volumes of head, ribs, etc. This book covers all of those stages very well. And the senior animators at Disney start out and largely animate with very primitive forms and get those moving right before they worry about structure. Anyway, this book is 100% essential information, IMO. And I'm 39!

You want to make cartoons?

Anyone who is a fan of animation knows the Looney Tunes. The Warner Bros. animation department developed and created so many memorable characters and cartoons, which have inspired many in the entertainment business. This book covers many things in a light hearted and enjoyable way and is well worth having in your personal library. The art of hand drawn cel animation is a dying art, in today's production world of computer animation. But the principles of cel animation are important for any animation artist. While there are many books which focus on the technical aspects of animation, there are very few which focus on the principles which make it an art. If your want to learn and understand what can make animation great, then you will find some valuable things in this book.

If Chuck Jones and Truman Capote had a baby, and that..

...baby was a book instead of a person, then this book would be that baby. Is that right? Yes, yes it is. You'll find the entire panopoly of Warner characters here,expertly rendered. Cervone is one of the country's finest art mentors,bar none. He actually spent time in IndoChina teaching animation and organic farming to the destitute. His teaching experience shines through. Cervone's handling of Daffy Duck borrows heavily from Campbell's Transformational Mythology and his presentation of Taz and Sylvester echo the multi-linear story telling of Will Eisner as well as the cool refined lines of designer Linus Van Pelt. His portrayal of the Warner animation Universe is cinematic, almost Kurosawa-esque. I've met Cervone on two seperate occasions. Once at a sconery on Martha's Vineyard and again on a bawdy singles cruise to the Greek Isles. I found him affable,chatty,knowledgeable and most shockingly,easy on the eyes, as he most resembles a crusty,grizzled Steve Gutenberg. I believe his eyepatch is purely for effect. Highly recommended!

great artist tips

If you want to learn to draw the great Warner Brothers characters, this is the book. It is a long book with tons of tips and details, not just someone elses drawings to copy. Shows you haw to create movement and many other animators tips for the aspiring young animator. Both my son and I love taking turns with this book. This is one of the nicest quality books of all the Walter Foster books, it has tons of stuff from Warner Brothers including rare background art. The book is bigger, longer than the others. Also it has higher quality paper and binding than the other titles in the series. Has sections on adding color, mood and affect in backgrounds, and a lot of animator info such as walk cycle, running cycle, storyboards, voice recording, color palletes for each character, model sheets, shortcuts and more. So it is much more a How to Animate book, that the How to Draw books I usually get from this company. The book is getting rare sine it has been out of print for 10 years.