[comp.graphics] b/w drawing info and advice desired

wjb@tantalum.uucp (Bill J Biesty) (02/21/91)

I would like to start a project that eventually would do animation
of people as well as things.  I'm going to stick to black and white
(or maybe gray scale).

I've seen what ray tracing and solid modeling can do and though while
appealing I would prefer to just draw lines--kind of like cartoons
but without the color.  Or a more "highbrow" media: black and white
comic books. I.e. I don't want to draw circles and squares for
heads and body parts but actually draw faces with noses and eyebrows
like an illustrator would.

I undersand there are some projects involved in rendering human
faces--mostly concerned with texture and shading.  I don't think
they would be helpful but if yoiu know better....

I don't have much experience with doing graphics (virtually none).  (I have
picked up the periodic info posting.)

Does anyone know of any references you could point me to? 
Does anyone have any experience doing this?
Are people not doing this because it's not "exciting"? or technologically 
tough?

Thanks.  Any help would be appreciated.

Bill