Animation question?
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- mrock
Where does one start? School, research on the web, what do you need to know? My main focus is doing animation on the web and it seems a little frivilous to learn flash, since it's just a small part of doing the animation. I am currently learning flash, but how does one become a good animator, Any advice, suggestions, or URL's would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
- canuck0
draw, draw and draw some more.
- twooh0
depends on what kind of animation you're talking about.
the best character animation book i can think of is the Richard Williams, "Animators Survival Kit".
my theory is that schools are sorta irrelevant. i think it really depends on how much you put into it you know?
- whoohaa0
start animating right now
that's it
- mrock0
Thanks twooh. My main focus will be one digital animation using flash as my platform. I ran into this class at UCLA -http://animation.filmtv.ucla.ed... and was wondering if this would benefit me. BTW, nice site.
- chach0
Ringling School of Art & Design
Traditional will teach you motion...
Software that embraces the principles you learn (not flash) comes later.
- jrichmond0
best advice from a fellow animator. learn fine are first. then go into motion. this applies to hand animation, flash animation, 3d, whatever.
take some life drawing classes to start off.
- mrock0
Thanks all! I found some great stuff over here: http://amfilms.hash.com/
- JazX0
depends on what you want to do?
- mrock0
flash animation.
- del_razor0
check out http://www.awn.com
best resource for ANY sort of animation.. from stop motion, 3d, or traditional... good article.. free... and loads of listings of companies and schools as well..
good luck to yah..
- Geith0
passion and talent. that's all you need. otherwise, try something else.
- mrock0
Thanks DEL_RAZOR u da man!!!
- TransFatty0
seriously
i started with A 1986 vhs
camera (old skool)looked like this :
and an erasable marker board
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would hold down record for like a second - then stop.erase the board, change slightly ..... repeat rec/stop
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but this was back in 87 ...
things may have changed since then .,.,
i hear they have something called "after effects" or "flash" or something now
*shrugs