What’s the main thing you wish your first animation teacher had taught you? I’ll be teaching another first-year class soon and I’ll make sure to include it! #animation #animTips
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How fundamentally important and meaningful good weight and mechanics are. Bouncing ball, heavy ball, medium ball, light ball, ball in obstacle course, pendulum, ball with tail, etc all have to be mastered before moving on. If you don’t nail those, you’ll struggle forever.
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Those are all part of the curriculum
I’ve found that moving beyond those to the walk cycle is just too much for one intro class, so I’ll be capping it at those exercises to make sure we drill them enough. -
And to add to that at the beginning I kept hearing "the bouncing ball applies to everything" but at the time I didn't really understand why, just accepted it as a thing I should know, felt like a magic trick I couldn't find the answer to
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Any link to study these? I always struggle with weights and the movements looks robotic.
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I’ve added similar exercises for my HS students using
#3D cube implementing a number of principles of animation as they progress their animations paying close attention to antics HOLDS movement timing weight squash n stretch overshoot and settlehttps://youtu.be/7F02zoUkpCYThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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