“It’s a very difficult medium. Animation necessarily requires a pretty good draftsman, because you’ve got to turn things, to be able to draw well enough to turn things from every angle. You have to understand movement, which in itself is quite a study. You have to be an actor. You have to put on a performance, to be a showman, to be able to evaluate how good the entertainment is. You have to know what’s the best way of doing it, and have an appreciation of where it belongs in the picture. you have to be a pretty good story man. To be a really good animator, then, you have to be a jack-of-all-trades. I don’t mean to say that I’m all these things, but I try hard. I got accused over the years of being a fine draftsman. Actually, I don’t really draw that well. It’s just that I don’t stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen to have high standards and I try to meet them. I have to struggle like hell to make a drawing look good.”
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Balance in motion
AnimSchool Instructor and DreamWorks Animator, JP Sans, demonstrates the role of balance in motion for making a character walk.
Source: http://www.animschoolblog.com/2011/12/animschool-classtime-making-character.html
Monday, December 5, 2011
Animate Forces Instead of Forms
This is veryyyyyy important, and I have to say it will take lots of time to master, I will keep practicing…
OK, What am I talking about? sorry , It’s Animating FORCES not FORMS, this might be obvious but believe me it has more depth, and as Keith Lango described it at the end of his article by saying: "This stuff has been under our noses for decades, described in a different way. See, animation books have been describing this activity in motion for years. It's been called overlap, overshoot, lag, weight, successive breaking of joints, sometimes erroneously called secondary action, etc."
I remember reading Don Graham notes about animating Forces not forms, and it was very confusing, I think I will read it again now maybe I will understand anything :)
here is the full article of Keith Lango:
http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/LeadFollow/leadFollow.htm
OK, What am I talking about? sorry , It’s Animating FORCES not FORMS, this might be obvious but believe me it has more depth, and as Keith Lango described it at the end of his article by saying: "This stuff has been under our noses for decades, described in a different way. See, animation books have been describing this activity in motion for years. It's been called overlap, overshoot, lag, weight, successive breaking of joints, sometimes erroneously called secondary action, etc."
I remember reading Don Graham notes about animating Forces not forms, and it was very confusing, I think I will read it again now maybe I will understand anything :)
here is the full article of Keith Lango:
http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/LeadFollow/leadFollow.htm
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