From Cartooning: Charles Shultz, Bob Cocker Jr., Don Martin, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Bill Watterson, Michael Jantze, Walt Kelly, and many more. Animation: the 9 Old Men of Disney Animation, Mark Henn, Glen Keane, and Andreas Deja. Scott Campbell, Humberto Ramos, Alex Toth, and Gil Kane, to name a few. From comic books: John Byrne, Bruce Timm, Mike Weiringo, Frank Cho, J. My list of inspirational artists is long and varied. Dreamers never get anywhere, they don’t plan Inspiration Additionally, Bancroft is president of the art instruction website, co-creator of a daily sketching prompt app (SketchBite), co-host of the most popular Animation podcast on iTunes (The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast) with his twin brother, Tony, and is Artist in Residence for the animation undergraduate program he developed for Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, where he lives with his family.ĭON’T be a dreamer.

Tom’s popular character design instruction books, Creating Characters with Personality and Character Mentor have become the most recognized books on designing characters for animation, video games, comic books, and cartooning and are required textbooks at many art schools around the world.

TOM BANCROFT, CHARACTER DESIGNER AND ANIMATOR

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