Okay, so the most important thing about learning animation is this: guess, accept failures, and keep at it. When I got into animation, I didn't know about what good animation looked like. I thought, wow, I just need to prove what I can do, and then, it's on to Pixar! I had done about three animations at that point, and almost no drawing. Now, whenever I try to animate something, I just get frustrated that it doesn't work.
My eye, it seems, is growing faster then my hand. I now know what good animation is not, but my hand doesn't know what it is. This, of course, is frustrating. The trick to learning is not proving your worth, it's simply guessing at a new idea, seeing if it works, and trying again until the shot seems to flow right.
This can be challenging, because young OCD animators, (like me) need to know exactly what to do, and that it will be perfect, before we do anything. It's a skill young-ins all need to learn.
My eye, it seems, is growing faster then my hand. I now know what good animation is not, but my hand doesn't know what it is. This, of course, is frustrating. The trick to learning is not proving your worth, it's simply guessing at a new idea, seeing if it works, and trying again until the shot seems to flow right.
This can be challenging, because young OCD animators, (like me) need to know exactly what to do, and that it will be perfect, before we do anything. It's a skill young-ins all need to learn.
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