Animating the Looney Tunes Way Paperback – January 1, 2000

This is a wonderful book for cartooning. I have purchased this a couple of different times to have more than one copy in my art room. I like that it visualizes proportion of different characters next to each other. It's also nostalgic for me to remember the different characters in my favorite Saturday cartoons. It's sure to be a classic.

This book is a great resource for learning how to construct not only the Looney Tunes characters but also characters in general, just from simple shapes like circles.To it's credit the book covers a lot of characters, but skims over everything but the top 3 or 4, even the coyote and roadrunner get a one page model sheet each. The model sheets are great as they show what makes the character unique, but they fail to show the steps in constructing the characters (it'll have a base shape and then the character beside it).Even though the books skims on these things it's still definitely worth getting, I continually go back and re-read and construct characters from it.

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.

It's great buuuuuuuut... The only real issue is that the book assumes you already know how to draw quite a little bit. Which was terrible when I was a kid. It's easy now.

This purchase was a gift. The recipient likes the book.

Who better to write a book about Looney Tunes animation than the man responsible for bringing them back to the forefront (though some may debate Space Jam as being one of their less-than-stellar big screen moments...), Tony Cervone? In this book (an oversized, almost poster-book paperback), Tony & friends go through the fundimentals of animating the Looney way - with an emphasis on FUN. The commentary throughout is thoroughly entertaining, and the dredging up of model sheets and production drawings is fascinating!Almost every "classic" Looney Tune is featured within the book, with tips on personality, various physical traits, and usually an official WB model sheet or two to compliment what's been written. Of course, an emphasis has been placed on Daffy, Bugs & Sylvester, however there are wonderful tips that are able to be applied to ANY of the characters (i.e. "blur" techniques, exaggerated takes, etc.)At the price Amazon offers it for, it's a STEAL! Buy it in a bundle with the recently released "Draw the Looney Tunes: The Warner Bors. Character Design Manual" and open up your own animation studio! This isn't to be passed up!

...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!

This book had pages torn out

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