Drawn to Life - Volume 2

41 More Animal Talk

Recently I had fun doing a handout on animals. It was a blatant attempt to suggest that man and animals do communicate on certain levels. Who knows how much communication of this nature is needed for good animation? We can be sure, though, that the more understanding we have of animal personality — and we will all agree they have character, temperament, and individuality — the better we can draw them.

In that last handout (Chapter 40), Polynesia told Dr. Dolittle that animals talked with their ears, tails, etc. How about smell? Well, Fred Kimball, The Man Who Talks to Animals, during that demonstration I told you about, had ...