Learn to Animate with Observation is a fundamental learning about creating your animation to Life. The purpose of this ebook is to guide you in your observation skill and identify what is good and what needs improvement in your animation.
Why the creation of eBook?
When I first started learning animation in 2002, I faced the same problem as beginners like you who are unable to tell what is a good animation. Colleagues or friends provided comments such as not nice, unnatural, etc., but most importantly, they will never tell me how to improve my animation. For very obvious reasons for their reply, they are not animation trained and I do not blame them but rather, I blame myself for not being able to ‘see’ what is wrong.
For the past few years in my educational career, I’ve taught many students in 2D and 3D animation and I come to realize the catalyst to creating a great animation. The key lies in our observation skill. We all have the observation skill within us except we have yet to develop it and apply to our animation. With good observation skill, it does not matter which platform you are creating your animation on, you will know exactly what you want in your animation and from here, you can find the right tool for the right task. This skill is not inborn but it can be trained. We can train ourselves just like a baby who learns to crawl, stand, walk and eventually until now, we are still walking because we apply this skill every day.
Who can use this eBook?
If you are learning to animate or is currently an animation artist who wish to improve yourself, you can make use of this guide to either build a strong foundation or improve your animation quality. Take some time to learn about yourself and your animation and find out how you can bring your animation to the next level.
Everyone has different learning pace so be patient with yourself in the learning process as you are just like a baby learning to walk. The ebook is a structured learning course and includes practices which helps to strengthen your understanding of animation at your own pace. Learning can be fun and enjoyable when you are learning at your own pace and when you see yourself progressing with results in your animation. The practices included in this ebook comes with my suggested answers for you to refer to, compare and think about.
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What does this eBook have?
This ebook contains 3 + 1 skills that you can take away from reading my eBook. The book will cover observation skills in still, observation skills in motion, observation skills in Life and last but not least, methodology in learning animation.
We start off with observation skills in still to warm up our concentration on simple and easy still objects. Observation skills in this section are skills that can be used even when drawing with pencil and paper.
Once we are more familiar with observing in stillness, we stretch ourselves by observing objects in motion. This will get a little tougher as we have to retain what we have learned from observing still objects and apply new skills while observing moving objects.
When an object moves, it does not mean it has a Life. We finally challenge ourselves by learning how to observe subjects with Life. This is the toughest observation because subjects with Life is always unpredictable and filled with surprises. However, once you are able to capture the essence of a Life, your animation creation will be very interesting and entertaining.
Lastly, as you are learning animation, you will get to learn about ‘how to learn’ so you can better retain your animation knowledge or other learnings you have in your life. This methodology in learning has been used to structure this ebook, allowing you to enjoy the learning process.
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Once again, I thank you for your support and I really hope you will enjoy learning animation as much as I enjoy sharing my animation knowledge with you!
Yours Sincerely,
Nash Lin