As the semester is packed with heavy subject, no real progress are made. As the semester ends and new special semester starts (semester 3), I began to start drawing the animation. Due to lack of skills and knowledge to animate, all my 4-5 weeks of works end up failure. The animation is sluggish, not smooth, blinking and inconsistency of drawing occurs everywhere.
Thus I research further and come up with this book,
Animation survival kit by Richard William.
The book is packed with lots of stuff for animators from beginner to advance. The book is not only for 2D animators but for 3D as well. It covers from the concepts of Timing and Spacings, Arcs, Anticipations, Weights with lots of examples. For those who wants to be an animator I highly recommend this book to you.
As the special semester near its end, I finally getting a graps of the technique to animate properly, although is still far from perfect.
Some problems encontered :
- Background is too static
- Which parts to animate first, Hierarchical order
- Lack of guidance from professionals, rely heavily on books.
- Slow drawing, unable to focus on drawing too long due to eye strain (caused by CRT monitor flicker).
- Drawing inconsistency, lots of repairing = slow.
Any development will be reported on the next post as frequent as possible.
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