Simple HINTS to Learning #Animations In the correct order that are ALWAYS OVERLOOKED

Hello People and welcome to HypefroActive. In the past one week, i've been talking about 3dsmax CAT and how useful it is and i also talked about poses and other things you need to know in churning out good animations. Well, if We are talking about the CAT rig, there's still plenty i've not touched concerning it but that wont be happening today.

Today i'll be sharing something that I learnt while watching "Richard Williams Animation Survival Kit Master Class Video Training CD". Please pay attention because a lot of us miss it straight from this point and we just quit having watched and put in plenty of time with nothing to show for, animation wise. A lot of animators would say, "so what, it's just a DVD training tutorial". Yep, while you might be right at this point, you must put into consideration what level you are currently in Animations. If You are a beginner and You pick up this DVD for the purpose of learning, you might pick up some new things and probably understand Animation Principles a lot better than before, but been entirely on same page with what is on that DVD, might not happen at that instant. Moreso, Richard is a 2D artist and though thesame principles apply to all genre of animation, been a 3D artist is enough trouble already not to talk about learning a lot of stuffs on a whole new level and on your own.

 It's confusing right? Well don't be. What i'm trying to say is that, you get to a level before doing what people in that level do. Similar to learning how to crawl before you walk then run and not before. It's important that you build your foundation right and in this manner so that you can always retrace your steps whenever you go wrong. Moreover there is a reason why Richards' Animation training DVD is called "MASTER CLASS". How then do you go about this you ask? Well, newbie or pro it's good you get the DVD's, if not for anything so that you see first hand how these principles are interpreted, because learning them from a book really can be tedious. And this is my personal observation.

But, one thing i picked up and cherish so much is one of the things Richard shared. He said, at a time, whenever they resumed for work, they do something more like re-hearse different movements every morning before doing anything. Guess what, i practiced that and it worked. Matter of fact, i still do that till today. So practicing moves to have first hand experiences of how things work will really go a long way in your quest to be a Super Animator. The above images are from google and are use to illustrate what i am talking about. You want to pose right? Pose yourself or act it out first then animate the character. These are very simple things but we get them wrong a lot of the time and at the end of the day, after putting our all as we assume to have done, we quit. Do not quit, approach learning animations the correct order.