Animation Practice 2 - Conclusion

As I am now about to wrap up this module I will say some final words about what I have learned through animating these 3 challenging tasks.

First of all, I want to thank everyone who gave me feedback through this module, helping me progress as an animator even further.

I am happy that I finally got to do an animation where I have characters dancing and doing it with 2 characters has absolutely been a challenging and given me more knowledge on what I would do next time I animate 2 characters.

The presenter animation pushed me even further on how to make my animation much more snappy when I need it to be as well as it proved to me that I can animate characters who have an extremely small moving hold and it still looks good (by this I mean that the character doesn't have to move all the time)


But the most important point I have learned during this module was when I received my feedback from Ed Hooks. As I mentioned earlier, I did not want to animate the face as part of the block but if there is one main conclusion I can draw from this module it is to also block the facial animation as this can help prevent "over animated" scenes. By this I mean that a face can sell the performance and I might not have to show what the character is feeling by moving it around as long as we can see the face showing the emotion.

The other reason I want to try again now to block facial animation is because I got really sick of looking at my brain dead characters until the very end. It just gives me more feedback about the performance instantly and it all comes down to THINKING LIKE A 2D ANIMATOR.

2D animators does not have the luxury of working in layers like 3D animators. Even though it is a good thing that 3D animators can work in layers if they want to, the best 3D animators are animators with a 2D background and because of this I cannot stress enough how important it is to think like a 2D animator. "Every Frame Is A Drawing"

I am now taking all this knowledge with me to the next module and I can't wait to do some animation with some serious performance in it!