On this week we had another lesson on how to animate from planning to polish in the splinning pass, more or less like this: 1. Planning your animation. Start thinking about what you want to do, and try to find and

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Hips one more time, because they are important.  Take a walk in front of mirror and look at the movement of your hips. Have so much importance on your hip so that movement can happen. This is because the hip

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Woosh, after choose what you will do, record and take a lot of references, have made your thumbnails... Is time to animate! In the Animation Mentor we have to give a Stepped version. "Yeah... You show it before. What exactly you

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Woot. How long! I'm on a trip since I start class 2 and didn't have time to balance my life with my blog... So here we go! I'm sharing with new classmates lessons in Class 2 (Psychology of Body Mechanics) mentored

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Wohooo!!! Class 1 finally ended. I can say that we learned a lot about the animation concepts. Also the value to bring life for anything! With power of animation, you can show for the public that a ball or an orc,

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Yeah. This is the last exercise of class 1. Phewwww! Well, in the previous week we understand a lot about exaggerating your poses, your timing, etc. You want more cartooning? Exaggerate in your anticipation, right? And so on... And if

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Yay! We are practically in the last exercise on class 01. In the previous week we finished learning all the basic fundamentals for a walk. And during this time, you should imagine that there are millions walks, right? I've lived

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Well, in this week 9 we are introduced to a problem that follows the animators till the end of their careers: Pops! In the previous week we saw the importance of finding great gold poses. They are crucial for the

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Pheew... Second full month completed. In the previous week we had something organic like a tail, also we gave personality to the ball owner. This week we have something more human: walk! Above, my mentor teaching me to walk (rereading

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So far we commit animations with intervals - what I mean is all the inbetweens among breakdowns and gold poses. There are many ways to do this. You can simply do frame by frame, or can think of your main poses

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This is me in my seventh week (inspired by De'Von Stubblefieldem). Here the purpose was animate a character with a tail. Although the concept of overlap has been presented in week 6, knotted in my head when involved arcs and

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Hello! Long time... After half class achieved, this post will be a little different. Is not about my exercises or animation theory, but animation in general. Many friends don't even know what I do and what is needed for a final

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Yay! This week I reached the half way. So much learning! In the previous week we understand the importance of planning and doing a block before you go to refine your animation. When you have a lot of information being transmitted,

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Hi again! At this stage already made more than a month I'm doing Animation Mentor and I feel that already evolves LOT! Not only with the lectures and notes and tips supplied by Mentor... But with their peers. More than ever

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Hey boys and gals! This week we return with balls... But now they have different weight! To recap what we talked about in the last post, timing gives the meaning of the movement and spacing place your character, objetct, or whatever

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