The book Draw The Looney Toons contains information with background on Warner Bros, how they got started, the kind of character animations they used to do which is nothing like it is today and much more. It gives you plenty of tips on anatomy, physics and proportion. It also gives help on composition, staging and attitude, all of this which contains plenty of imagery.
Since this is a book from Warner Bros. they have also included a section which shows you how to draw Bugs Bunny, one of their most popular made characters even to present day. It tells you how to draw every part of his body step by step, but it is not recommended to do until you’ve tried other exercises that exist in previous pages of the book.
This book may seem at first that it will not be of any use, but in fact it will, because Warner Bros. created the characters ‘Tom & Jerry’ whom I will be analyzing for my essay question. Though the book doesn’t focus entirely on Tom & Jerry, it’s the company that I can really talk about, defining the way they make their characters and how they can generate comedy out of it, without any or very little use of dialogue, and the way that they exaggerate body movement as well, which is one of the keys to generating comedy.
I believe that I will find this book very useful for not just my research, but for also understanding the mechanics of one of the largest corporations of producers for film and television.
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