Visual Language- Study Task 5-Life drawing/ the human form in an animation context- Richard Williams

Life Drawing & The Human Form: 

Richard Williams

Richard Williams is an animator who has spent a long time doing life drawing and studying the human form, you can see the result of his studying in his animation 'Prologue' which is just under 10 minutes long and is hand drawn to an extremely high standard. This really shows his skill as he is able to show, in detail, what the human form looks like while moving and how to show detailed camera movements along a scene.

As the video has not been fully released, i can only find a clip of what the film looks like but it still shows how he understands the human form in animation. Doing this type of animation meant Richard Williams had to draw every frame which is why it is so stunning that he had created a photo realism animation.

If i were to do this form of animation, i would have to spend a lot of time perfecting each frame so that the overall look ended up as smooth as Williams has been able to create his to be, this is why animators tend to stay away from this form as it is so time consuming.