Animation: Common Beginner Mistakes

The 11SecondClub Hints are extremely useful, The hint about The Top Five Mistakes helps a lot if you want to improve your skills, The top five are discussed in details, Don’t miss it :)

The Top Five Mistakes:

1. "YOU AREN'T READY FOR THE COMPETITION."
   "YOU SHOULD RETURN TO THE BASICS."
2. "YOU NEED STRONGER POSES."
3. "YOUR ANIMATION FEELS TOO SWIMMY / TOO COMPUTER-Y / TOO WEIGHTLESS."
4. "YOUR CHARACTER'S ENERGY DOESN'T MATCH THE DIALOGUE."
5. "YOUR CAMERA MOVES ARE MUCH TOO DISTRACTING!!
   I CAN'T SEE YOUR ANIMATION BECAUSE THE CAMERA IS MOVING SO MUCH!"

 

 

And I came across this Blog post, It was about common mistakes too, Below are the mistakes discussed:

• “Glitch” of all kinds and nature!
• Weak pose or having a bizarre pose somewhere in our animation
• Having poses in motion, paid attention to poses than should not exist
• Not having enough change, angle change, position change, pose change : Well Contrast. It's about abstraction of masses and not seeing your character as different body part but as a few big Bouncing Balls
• Sometime I put too much emphasis on the feet, which is not always necessary since the audience look generally at the head
• Arms and legs are moving independently from the rest of body
• Put a key on the hip every time I’ve put a key on the arms or legs
• Add more Breakdowns (keyframe on the timeline) to “correct” a movement that is already wrong
• I had the tendency to spend too much time in my first blocking pass with my keys next to each other’s, and not working on my timing until I had many keys and breakdown in my timeline
• It should be obvious, clear what is happening in the animation when we look at our blocking