If yur new here im learning animation, so that i can learn enough to finish and submit a short to the NGTV halloween special: learn enough AND start and finish an animated short before october
and i think posting in public may help motivate me to really do it
day9: tried what i talked about
today work: 5h39min
total time: 35h53min
context of my understanding-- skip if you've read this previously ||
┌but yeah- [if i may ramble] im learning the ability to animate, not the how. i hope the titles don't mislead. this series isn't me finding the information sources day by day, because based on past experience finding new information that wasn't something i new already would take forever, luckily this series is all of the information i've remembered form every source i've looked at for 8 years. i just didn't do anything with the information, so i never learned the skill, i didn't try to much at all. [if i may ramble] it's like archery, you can learn that by pulling the string you make the arrow shoot. but obviously you haven't learned archery and would miss your shot, and it becomes all the more complicated when you get more specific situations, like a moving target, or your moving because your on a horse, and in fact if your on a horse it's a bumpy ride and you have to do a lot to hit your target if your doing archery on the back of a horse」
so today i tried that thing i said
recreate a reference mostly as is to break down how it works: and then make something that does the same formula as it without looking at the original
there's also a lil guy at the end
but first... doodles
i only studied one clip but it took a while because i did it twice
so here's the clip i mimicked [ this is where the link would have been ]
um... well apparently it was uploaded today and then deleted later today so...
anyway, what i notice about this one is a standing up from crouched motion which seems useful, and it has a "weight shift" as part of it
the link would have been to sakuga booru a site for short anime clips with the idea of being for animators to study and use as reference
it even lets you move frame to frame, youtube lets you do that too with the correct keyboard buttons { it's not arrow keys it's < > next to question mark key }
here's the recreation [ they were holding something ]
what i did was pick apart from it the big poses, the ones that get the motion to make sense
it was helpful noticing how the head motion is mostly upward before becoming curved
as well as that there's a slow down point while switching from mostly upward movement to mostly side ways movement, which makes sense, it's slowing down upwards and beginning it's speed up sideways
but this seems important i can picture in my mind lots of motions that act this way
there really isn't that much to point out that i can put to words, it's just good to see what these poses sort of are and notice when things slow and for what reasons
and below is a version that is slowed to the originals length, and i know why potentially someone would fill this in with more frames, but i like it this way and would probably choose to only do these frames, it's also much faster doing it this way
and then the version i made without looking at the reference, maybe it's helpful idk, it took... 2HOURS so idk i think it could have been better to do another different clip, or to make a more substantial change to formula
sorry i'm being negative again :3
i do a ton of thinking and reflection writing these posts and i realize thing that would have been good to do, if only i had done them
maybe i'll do more deliberate thinking and include that as part of the time
i think that what i should have done was look at a reference, break it down with my mind's brain parts, and then create something substantially completely different, but which is based on ideas i notice while studying the reference, and then think a bunch about that
but yeah...
also, here's the lil guy