Animation...It's alive!!

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 A little early in a Posting but the last couple of weeks I went on a full sidetrack when it came to Storyboarding. I was noticing how my frames, though showing the progress of the sequence, still looked.. Off. Going through the masters and Mentors list I have come up with. I have realized I need at least a little understanding of animation for my frames to look more alive, especially these more action-specific scenes.


    This leads me to a Shout out to AlanBecker and his youtube tutorial series on the principles of Animation. Credit to Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnson. Armed with the following principles.

-Squish & Squash

-Anticipation

-Staging

-Straight Ahead/Pose to Pose

-Follow Through & Overlapping Action

-Slow in & Slow Out

-Arcs

-Secondary Action

-Timing

-Exaggeration

-Solid Drawing

-Appeal


    Armed with these principles and adding them to my sequential storyboard Practices along with a solid understanding of Keyframes, the true moments of change pose to pose. I believe now to have a better understanding of choosing what frames to blueprint out before fleshing out the animation.


    Aaron Blaise is starting to become more than just a role model but an Idol at this point in my summer, as I keep going back to his content for answers and inspiration. He covered this amazing exercise that is commonly used in the animation industry and it just blew my mind how such a simple exercise could be so effective. A simple Flour Sack and giving it life, purpose, and emotion. I never truly appreciated how Disney and Pixar could give life and personality to inanimate objects until seeing Aaron Blaise in action. Keeping the twelve principles of animation in mind along with the Matthew mattress's view of forces, you can squash, stretch, and bring to life this flour sack.


    If I was to make that perfect course as we discussed in a previous blog. I would say with the flour sack being nearly a primitive object, mixing it with the Four-point perspective Playing and storyboard exercise will dramatically improve the artistic foundations and fundamentals.


    After all, a master of the fundamentals will give everlasting talent in all other fields of Art.

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