Scott T. Petersen's 'Animation and Drawing Excellence'

[Rodney]

Disclaimer: I have not yet purchased any of Scott Petersen's products so therefore cannot personally vouch for their thoroughness or quality.

 

Scott T. Petersen has been an animator, director and teacher for quite awhile.

 

Here's his basic bio:

Scott T. Petersen is an Animator/Director who has worked for several major Hollywood studios including, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Universal and Columbia/tri-star. His movie credits include Space Jam, The Iron Giant, Pigglet’s Big Movie, Mickey’s Three Musketeers, The Lion King 1 ½ , The Fox and the Hound 2, Tarzan 2, Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, Kronk’s New Groove, The Prince of Egypt, The Little Mermaid 3 and many others. In addition he has taught animation and drawing at the California institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), in Valencia California for four years and later, figure drawing at BYU in Provo Utah. Before starting Golden Street Artworks he lived in the Philippines, where he worked with Toon City animation. Originally sent there by Walt Disney studios, he has supervised and trained over a thousand artists and became head of training and artist development. During which time, created a highly successful training program for beginners and seasoned animators a like. He has become an expert on overseas productions and has supervised in Japan, Taiwan/Republic of China, the Philippines, and Mexico as of this writing.

 

For those that tend toward a traditional hand drawn approach to animation you may find his current DVDs of interest.

At this time he has three available:

 

1. Animation and Drawing: The Essential Basics

2. Lesson 2: The Power of Anticipation (Umm... no direct link... so see the preview below)

3. Dynamic Posing for Gesture Drawing

 

 

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Here's a related video on anticipation that is (presumably) not on his DVD:

 

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This one will look familiar to anyone that has Cristin McKee's videos, however, since Scott approaches from a traditional mindset his methodology works from Breakdown to Inbetween a bit more appropriately:

 

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Need a lesson (or overview) of gesture drawing/poses:

 

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For those of you who have invested in training material by Glen Vilppu and/or books by Walt Stanchfield you'll enjoy this video.

 

For those interested in animators in general or finding out more about Scott Petersen, Joe Dorsey (from the Don Bluth forum) recently completed an interview with Scott and posted it on Youtube:

 

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(To view all 88 or so videos visit Scott's Youtube channel)

 

 

At any rate, you can find out more about the DVDs here:

(from what I can tell, each DVD runs at 90+minutes for $19.95)

 

http://animationexcellence.blogspot.com/