Are there any books on how to draw UPA style? I've already

what is upa?

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>>3041450
No but you can always read John K's blog. He parodied the UPA style in the fake commercials and bumpers in Ren and Stimpy and it ended up influencing a lot of cartoons in the 90s (Dexter's Lab, Power Puff Girls and Samurai Jack). I think he wrote that this was regrettable and that the original UPA style only looked good because the artists started out drawing traditional cartoons.

>>3041450
You draw traditionally and pretty much abstract the pose from there into a flat design. A lot of the contemporary UPA imitators got it backwards and made very stiff cartoons as a result.
If you look at cartoons from the early 1940s to the later 1940s you see the natural progression of the traditional style getting more angular up until it gets full on UPA. So just get the Preston Blair book to learn traditional fundamentals first.

>>3042894
>No but you can always read John K's blog.
If you wanna read pseudo-intellectual bullshit about cartoons, of course.

>>3044374
If you can cut through his bullshit there's a ton of useful info and techniques there.

>>3044374
>here's how these cartoons were made and how you can use these tools
>"pseudo-intellectual bullshit"

oh /ic/

>>3044374
He has a no bullshit approach to cartooning. There are so many sensitive people today that can't take that style of teaching nowadays. It's their loss.

>>3041450
study gesture and disregard real anatomy pretty much