Gesture Drawing For Animation
needs potentials? I’ll tell you who needs them—you do, I do. This world was created by
some creative energy (you name it as you see fit) and that creative energy that founded it
and now runs it, is working, in and through you now. Do you not feel that surge of energy
and awareness tingling at your finger tips and its motor humming away in your solar
plexus? Is your mind not spinning with thoughts, ideas? Is it not always searching,
searching, searching?
The awareness of it will be strongest in the springtime when the earth around you begins
to hum with the renewal of life. But here’s the wonderful thing—man’s renewal is not
dependent on springtime. A mere rededication to creativity is all man needs to start the
creative juices flowing and then suddenly there is the energy—energy that seems to feed
upon itself, so that each moment becomes a fresh start, each experience a new event, and
the vision is forward-looking with anticipation and wonder—not backward looking, full
of regrets for neglected opportunities of the past, or negative influences that creep in and
block our vision.
Yes, the action is drawing and the preparation is aligning ourselves with that creative
energy, becoming a channel through which it can find expression. Think of the universe
as being full of energy (it is, you know) and that energy is swirling around us waiting to
take on some form. All we have to do is open up our consciousness and allow it to
enter—and in a way that no one else in the world can, express it.
Osmosis....................................................................................................................
Positive thinking comes in many forms. One of the more potent and effective forms is
subliminal input. Glen Keane was pinning up some inspirational drawings in his room
one day as I happened by. He explained that he hoped that some of the artist's genius
would enter him through osmosis. Glen laughed, but he was serious. And serious he has a
right to be, for osmosis works.
The conscious mind must be selective of the things that vie for one's attention because it
can only process one thing at a time. You could liken it to a telephone line where the
voice travels over a single concentrated vehicle. The conscious mind "listens in" to
whatever it desires to pay attention. The subconscious mind, however, receives an
unbroken deluge of information, not through a single line but more like radio waves
which travel in all directions. The subconscious mind receives constantly, from all
directions, all the information picked up by the five senses (and psychically) in the form
of subliminal "osmosis".
Most everyone is acquainted with the classic example where subliminal advertisements
for coke and popcorn were flashed on the screen periodically during the film. Later, some
fellow capitalized on the method by recording several tapes of a positive thinking and self
help nature, but with only the sound of waves breaking at the sea shore being audible.
The person seeking help listens for an hour a day (or something like that) and while the
conscious mind is soothed by the wave sounds, the subconscious deals with the
subliminal suggestions in its mysterious but inevitable fashion.