The best practice for beginning animators

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I talk about how I use beginning FX animation as a great way to learn animation

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I think the best tip for a beginner is to not bite off more than you can chew.
Last thing you need is to be a discouraged beginner because your ambitious fight animation feels flat and janky. It takes an incredible amount of fundamental practice to get animation you're happy with.

Quinold
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i'm not a beginner, but it's always important to relearn the basics every now and then

DAMDO
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Something I would recommend instead of a fly is a magic dot. Basically the dot is magical and can move and your goal is to add as much energy and convey to the viewer the dot’s feelings or what it is trying to do. You can even add multiple dots to make it more challenging and maybe make them interact with each other somehow. This exercise helped my improve ALOT.

bluedragooo
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1. The buzzing fly 2:10
2. Debris/GunShot 4:37
3. Ripples and nipples X) 6:52
4. The spark 9:25
5. Smoke 1 10:31
6. Smoke 2 11:42
7. Fire 12:59

leonardoromero
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I really liked seeing your approaches for handling smoke and fire. I'm one of those people that draw out the FX as well as I can from the very beginning and animate from there. But just using gestures and simple shapes to refine on the next pass, especially in the context of adhering to a specific design of FX, is something I definitely wanna try!

JoeFermaint
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As a absolute beginner in the animation field, my FAVORITE ways of learning new techniques have to be a seaweed or tail sway, smear frames, smoke clouds or learning to make fluid movement on 2's instead of 1's, yes it's ideal to learn 1s for a more professional look, but as a one man team it's overwhelming to draw more frames so suggesting twos or even 3s to hold the climax of a motion could Definitely help! Anticipation is a personal favorite of mine when actually drawing out each frame

madness_mania
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That tip on Smoke 2 is genius and honestly so freeing to see you go through. Like, of course it makes sense to separate the movement from the design, we do it with character all the time – but for some reason it never occurred to me to do the same with FX. Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

Oddernod
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I have too mich free time. Its time to be productive. Right now!😐

stormpoop
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I've just started relearning animation yesterday then you uploaded this video, you're a wizard!

batonxn
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Alex Grigg has a vid on some very basic tutorials, and none of them are a bouncing ball lol! Some of his techniques are more about shape and flow, like moving dots(like one of them you did here). Great to see this style of animating here again!!

millydax
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This semester my animation course started and ive also had the itch to revisit tv paint for some personal work. This vid has perfect timing! Youre work is super inspiring and unique - keep up the great work ❤

allanredhill
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This is such an interesting approach, but it makes so much sense! I think beginners struggle alot with context, I know I did when I first started! So using the principles in more organic ways definitely resonates more with me. And to an extent, can be better translated to other organic characters.

richstubbsanimation
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Thanks, been looking for advice on some first things to animate to help learn. I mean the Animators survival kit is great and all, but Richard Williams shows a bouncing ball and pendulum and then is like "Walks! Do walks now, do lots and lots of walks" and it's like.... walks are HARD! I feel like I need some middle ground there XD.

But now the one thing I really need to learn is how people draw with vector tools... Been animating mostly in photoshop just cause I really struggle to draw with vectors ><

FuzzyImages
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I'm an absolute begginer at animation but I have a kinda pro level at illustrating (lol) and I'm applying for an animation college next year so this is very helpful. I'm going to start now, whish me luck

mafu_ne
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I actually really really liked this video! I have ADHD and one of the hardest thiings for me is not making my art and what I wanna create so overwhelming. I think too much about the final look and making it all in one go that it really disinterests me from doing it. But the way you simplified a fly to just a dot literally SOOTHED my brain. I keep forgetting to start small so it doesn't feel as scary as I go along, but this video made me feel a lot better :) Thank you

ms.cartoonist
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I've always found it hard for me to just go from a bouncing ball and other exersies to more complex stuff like walking so this is the perfect middle ground! thank you for this valuable information, I will definitly try these out

Generic-Internet-User
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You are literally my animation teacher at this point lol.

artsja
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Step 1.
Cocaine
Step 2.
More cocaine
Step 3.
Death Metal and Crack laced Coffee

BBWahoo
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I am planning to get into vfx with animation anyways and recently started learning animation fully but more on the 3d side. It’s cool to see a lot of the same principles apply 3d vs 2d

BrandonBloxBB
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i agree!! I remember learning how to animate thin/wavy smoke when I was first starting out. practicing how the lines move and change form and stretch really helped me learn a lot of principles!

crowpen