djcbriggs - (UTS) Foundations in Animation Language

Foundations in Animation Language (UTS)

Foundations in Animation Language is a First Year animation subject in the University of Technology Sydney School of Communication. Students participate in a varied program of observational drawing classes, visual research, story-telling and problem-solving projects designed to introduce them to a wide range of possibilities within animation. In collaboration with other teachers I conduct classes in life drawing, as well as field drawing involving excursions to Taronga Zoo, the Australian Museum, Cockatoo Island and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Useful reference books:

The set of about seventeen handouts contain all of the information needed for the workshop, but keen students may like to look at the books by Peck, Hale and Loomis at the top of the following list, either online or in class during breaks. Serious students will find it useful to eventually work their way through many more of the texts on the list, and elsewhere; each one will yield insights not found in the others.

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Stephen Rogers Peck)
https://archive.org/details/stephen-rogers-peck-atlas-of-human-anatomy-fo (read online)

Artistic Anatomy (Paul Richer, translated by (Robert Beverly Hale)
https://archive.org/details/artisticanatomy0000rich_j8y0 (read online)

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Robert Beverly Hale)
https://www.booktopia.com.au/drawing-lessons-from-the-great-masters-robert-beverly-hale/book/9780823014019.html

Figure Drawing for All it's Worth (Andrew Loomis)
https://archive.org/details/Andrew_Loomis_Figure_Draw (read online/pdf)

Drawing the Head and Hands (Andrew Loomis)
https://archive.org/details/Andrew_Loomis_Drawing_the_Head_and_Hands (read online/pdf)

Constructive Anatomy (George B. Bridgman)
http://www.archive.org/details/constructiveanat00briduoft (read online/ pdf)

Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life (George B. Bridgman)
https://archive.org/details/bridgmanscomplet0000brid (read online/pdf)

Figure Drawing for Artists (Steve Huston)
https://archive.org/details/figuredrawingfor0000hust (read online)

Anatomy for Sculptors (Uldis Zarins):
https://anatomy4sculptors.com/

Vilppu Drawing Manual (Glenn Vilppu)
https://store.nma.art/product/vilppu-drawing-manual/

Human Anatomy for Artists (Eliot Goldfinger)
https://www.booktopia.com.au/human-anatomy-for-artists-eliot-goldfinger/book/9780195052060.html

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention (Michael Hampton)
https://archive.org/details/michael-hampton-figure-drawing-design-an (read online)

Morpho series (Michel Lauricella)
https://www.booktopia.com.au/search.ep?author=Michel+Lauricella

The Complete Guide to Anatomy for Artists & Illustrators (Gottfried Bammes)
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-complete-guide-to-anatomy-for-artists-illustrators-gottfried-bammes/book/9781782213581.html

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression (Gary Faigin)
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-artist-s-complete-guide-to-facial-expression-gary-faigin/book/9780823004324.html

The Human Figure (John H. Vanderpoel)
https://archive.org/details/humanfigure00vanduoft (read online/ pdf)

Figure Drawing (Richard Hatton), 1904.
http://figure-drawings.com/figuredrawing.html (pdf, $4.95)
https://archive.org/details/figuredrawing00hatt (read online)
https://archive.org/details/figuredrawingcom00hatt (pdf, 1895 edition)

Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1749. Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/albinus_home.html (jpgs)

Fau, J, 1849. The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, Intended for the Use of Artists, Painters, and Sculptors.
https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/fau (jpgs)

Richer, Paul, 1906. Nouvelle anatomie artistique du corps humain
https://archive.org/details/nouvelleanatomie01rich
https://archive.org/details/nouvelleanatomie02rich

Apps

Essential Anatomy (Windows)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/essential-anatomy-3/9wzdncrdsl7j (not currently available)

Essential Anatomy 5 (iPhone/iPad)
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/essential-anatomy-5/id596684220

VOKA Anatomy app (Web/iPhone/iPad/Android)
https://voka.io/

Skelly - Poseable Anatomy Model for Artists, Stan Prokopenko
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Proko.Skelly&hl=en
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/skelly-poseable-anatomy-model/id976920216?mt=8

Artnatomy (Victoria Flores, online facial anatomy app).
http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/index.html

Anatomy.app
The actual app is expensive and also at the time of writing has some complaints about ads on the paid version. But the images and short videos and their explanations on the Instagram channel are great.
https://www.instagram.com/anatomy.app/?g=5