Get a mentor, Consider the age you are now because animations take time and will take all your time if not well managed. You need practice. You also need money if you want to learn and get good at Animations.
There, I just summarized everything you need to know as a newbie getting into it. But if you want to learn about my personal experience in this trade, continue reading.
Hello everybody and welcome to HypefroActive, your number one animation blog for newbies and enthusiasts. I’m your host as always, Fred Ocheli. Now straight to the nitty gritty.
I’ve had some crazy runs in Animations and in those times, I’ve lost atleast 3 laptops in over the course of 11years. I’ve lost friends and family in the quest to understand and get better at it. I’ve spent tons of money from my previous savings on softwares, hardwares, internet, power etc. And everytime, while every other thing, I might fail to do or attend to, I always found time for animations.
Why did I take this long a time? Hmmm, I had no mentor and there were no schools around my region or “country” if I may, that taught it at the time. Still, it was a skill I had to pocess. And at the time, I was learning how to use the 3dsmax software. And that took close to 10years from me. Every single day.
In 2020, I would stumble into 2D even if I tried to avoid it as much as possible. Because 2D required plenty of drawings and it’s the base for traditional animation. I was animating over 8000frames in 3D and I considered that as hell. Now imagine doing all that in 2D. Having to draw every single thing in frames. Yeah, that’s why I was avoiding it. The feeling of all those frames filled with drawings just makes me cringe. Plus you now are also faced with the challenge of making consistent drawing images to fit and connect every frame. But I soon realized that I didn’thave to draw everything in frame by frame. I soon realized that I could create a character and rig it like I did in 3D and voila. And this was how my 2D animation journey began.
So that’s my run in learning Animations summarized (not in detail) in some paragraphs. I’m back here, again and hopefully, finally this time. I’ll be swaying towards 2D for the most of it. Follow me in detail to know how things are done here pronto.
