[metakermit]

If you’re interested in this topic I really recommend The Animator’s Survival Kit by Richard Williams (the director of animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit):

https://www.amazon.com/Animators-Survival-Kit-Richard-Willia...

Most of the points from the article seem to be derived from the stuff the book covers in more details.

[egypturnash]

Survival Kit is an advanced book that dives into the deep end, The Illusion Of Life by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson [1] (two of the guys on a bunch of the early Disney features) and Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair [2] (countless MGM shorts) will give you a solid grounding in the basics.

The whole article focuses on expanding a list of principles of animation from Illusion.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Life-Disney-Animation/dp/078...

2: https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Animation-Collectors-Preston-...

[onlyrealcuzzo]

Do you have any recommendations for someone who wants to learn to draw, but currently can't even scribble a decent stick figure?

[pcwalton]

These are really old, but I found them very helpful for beginning cartooning years ago: http://karmatoons.com/drawing/drawing.htm

[mkl]

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards. Learning to draw is actually mostly about learning to see; not seeing the objects as we usually do, but seeing the light and shadow that form them.

[jessejmc]

Drawabox has some great exercises and starts by teaching the mechanical skills necessary for drawing.

https://drawabox.com/

[si1verbu11et]

andrew loomis has really helped me, search on archive.org, the books are not in copyright anymore..

[avtar]

Check out the Traditional Drawing list here: https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/