Fred Moore's 14 Points of Animation
"If a drawing looks clumsy, or lacks appeal, or no longer looks like the model, perhaps the animator is trying to show something that should not be shown. When Fred (Moore) was giving a talk on drawing Mickey, he was asked, "How do you draw him looking right down on top of his head?" Fred responded, "Why would you?" If the appeal in the design was based on the balance of the ears to the nose and the relationship of the cheeks to the eyes and the head shape, Fred wondered why would you deliberately throw all that away? Why would you show a view that did not have much going for it as possible? - Frank Thomas , Ollie Johnston , The Illusion of Life - "What happens is FACT. TRUTH is what we think about. Write the truth." - Robert McKee People often like to cite the 12 Points of Animation as described in the Illusion of Life by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. In this very same tome is their once senior animator, Fred Moore's...