Animation makes me feel like God lol

I was browsing 11 second club and saw one guys sig. It said that animation makes you more powerful than God. And after thinking about it, it was somewhat true.

You can choose your character, you can choose its personality, what he/she does etc. So it makes you more powerful than God in a certain way!

Also I plus(ish) thing about it is that you get to break your creation. You can destroy the rig, squish it, stretch it, break the back etc... (Don't want to sound to gruesome) But you have to do this to make them live ironically

You can also break gravity with your character! Make them snappy, scramble there legs, there arms anything!

I just thought that was pretty funny and pretty cool

Practice Practice Practe makes perfect!

Before I really started animating, I wanted to get alll the info I could get before because i wanted to be "ahead." Sure I got the ideas down and stuff, squash stretch, it is easy to remember. But putting them to use is another thing.

So what I learned the only way you could really get better is practice and practice. I knew the concept of squash and stretch before. And I animated some character but didn't use it. This is another thing.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO BREAK THE RIG! DESTROY IT WITH THE BROKEN JOINTS, STRETCH, SQUASH!

I am just getting that concept now with my new animation.

Also it is very good to have some critiques because it really helps.

But practice makes perfect, and makes it fun!

Coming up with ideas to animate

One of the most hardest part for me animating is coming up with an idea.

The sad thing is that I don't have to like follow any directions or anything. So yea, I can basically can animate anything I want. (Well in body mechanics because I still need practice)

So today while at home I was trying to think of an idea for a while. I am pretty picky of what I animate. I thought a vball serve will be good practice but then I realized I want to try to add some personality to it, not just a movement and stuff. Well everything has a personality but I wanted to make it more interesting. Not just follow a film reference. I want to show more anticipation and stuff.

So the idea I got is pretty good but maybe to long for me...We'll see...

It's like a guy hitting the thing at a fair and it hit the bell thing. But I think I have a pretty original idea going on...Not sure..We'll see like I said.

But lets go on about the reason I am writing this post. And how I get pass my mental block and what my mind is thinking in those situations...

When I finish an animation I go right away to find something else to animate. But the thing is I have all these videos stuck in my head about AM students and I just keep on replaying them in my head and don't get any ideas. So what I do is get out of my room and do something else. Half the time I usually walk around thinking about things, picking things up, going outside, jump on the trampoline. Then when a good idea pops up, I think about the character and stuff.

So Carlos Baena's blog really helped me. It really got to me about getting off the computer. I'm glued to the computer to much. Animation doesn't come from it, it is just a tool to animate. I can't get inspiration from facebook or engagdet. I have to get it from myself and experience life.

So what I am saying, get out of your seat and have fun! Then when you have some experiences and find something out, animate it!

Heading out for a few days

The next three weeks I am going to be busy!

But hopefully I can still animate.

Anyways today I am going to leave to northern michigan for family vacation till sunday.

Then on tuesday dentist to check my wisdom teeth, then friday wisdom teeth is gonna get removed.. But hopefully I will feel ok to watch wall-e! I am so pumped for that!

Then after that church camp.

The animation I am working on is going good!


I think I am almost done.. Still waiting for critique's on 11 second club.

So long!

My way of animating

It seems different than other people. Not sure if that is a good thing or not.

Anyways the way I am doing it, is of course I first block it out. But most people block out the major poses. But for me...I do that too but not for the whole animation. I block out a certain action, then I try to put more inbetweens depending on the spacing and timing. So I go through different passes of blocking in one.. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not.

And I am happy to get back into animating! Because I spent a lot of time out of the house because being in the house, and I have no inspiration from doing that.

But I am planning to spend this week animating because all my friends are going to help at a church camp, and I can't because family vacation, but yea I will have a lot of time to catch up.

So what I am basically telling myself is that I will always have time to animate, I just need the right time, I can't force anything, especially when its summer and I have a lot of free time!

AM not getting accepted

On facebook I found a post about a guy getting rejected from AM. Man that is getting me scare D:

But on the other hand I am enjoying life and getting a ton of experiences!

Video References

Before when making video reference I kind of dreaded it. Which is not a good thing. This is because I wasn't into what I was making, I wanted to go straight to the animating part! But not doing good on my video reference made my animation worse.

But now I enjoy making them! Before I go I talk to the camera telling it what I am going to do, then I think about it. Then when I record the action, I have fun with it! I put myself in the setting that the character is in, then act it out!

Need to get my acting better tho..But practice makes perfect!