I just realized I'm posting my 'homework' results to these Brian Lemay lessons and I never gave them a proper intoduction.  How rude of me.  Well, here, I hope, is a proper intro for those curious.

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I originally went to school to become an animator.  Unfortunately I made the wrong choice in the school to go to and later found out they had quite a poor animation course.  However during that time I fell in love with 3d modeling and ran with that.  Modeling has served me well.  I have so far loved to do it professionally, and it has given me the chance to work with many great artists first at Glueworks, and now at Blue Sky Studios.  However, I find myself with once again yearning to bring things to life through animation, specifically through traditional animation, drawing each frame of movement.  So now, instead of going to an expensive school, I am going to home school myself.  Luckily there are many resources available to me.  There are my co-workers and animator friends who are open to giving advice, many resources out in internetland, as well as good books to learn from.  One such resource are the books by Brian Lemay.

Brian has much experience in animation.  From his website:

"He worked as an assistant animator on the feature film, Rock and Rule, character designer on the original Inspector Gadget series, and layout artist on Ewoks and Droids, Smurfs, Flintstone Kids, Laser Tag and Punky Brewster.

Brian Lemay was the Co-ordinator of the Classical Animation program at Sheridan College from 1996 – 2000. He was also an Instructor teaching Storyboarding, Layout, Character Design, Animation, Background Painting and Life Drawing from 1988 through 2000."

His book here teaches the fundamentals in a very methodical approach.  Starting simply and adding one element per assignment.  Each assignment reinforces the previous principles, so over time the early learned principles quickly become second knowledge and you don't even think about them.  Once I complete the lessons I'll give my full personal review of the course.  So far though I recommend it for any who wish to learn about, and create animation.

You can find out more about Brian Lemay, and purchase his learning material from his website: http://www.BrianLemay.com