What Skill Needed to Improve your Animation?

Improve your Animation

These days we all are surrounded by animation in one form or another, be this film, tv or more traditional methods. So animation is all around us, how do you as an animator stand out from the crowd and improve your animation skills?

Whether mastering a technical skill and accelerating the workflow, refining your character detail or improving your storytelling skills, Here you learn best tips that will improve your animation skills. Here we have gathered the best and simplest tips that every animator needs to know about.

7 Best Tips to Improve your Animation Skills

1. Learn the Basic Principles

The basic animation principles have been around for ages, and for good purpose. In the early 1900s, the original Disney animators figured these principles and they are the most important guidelines you will ever use in work. Using as many of them as possible will guarantee your work will look more alive and natural.

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2. Simple Key Poses

This is important to have the overall key poses nailed down. Having listened to the scene soundtrack, making sure that the key poses hit on the correct intonation of the audio is important. When you have nailed down the key poses, you can get a rough idea of the overall emotions and execution of the scene.

3. Timing and Spacing

Importance of timing the key poses. The timing of the lion crawling upon its prey and a sudden attack and leaping to finish off the deer. All need to have the proper timing and spacing of poses. After nailing the key poses from the previous point, you continue planning the speed from key pose A to key pose B. Planning in-between poses is as essential as it finalizes the scene.

4. Observe Real - World References

Observing the real-world references means you take a good look at the finest details of an object around you. For example, how the bird lands and jumps on the pavement in search of food. Pecking its tiny beak at rubbish thrown by uncivilized people. And before it pecks, it blinks with every jerk of its head.

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5. Offsetting Keys

Offsetting means that not all the body parts move at the same rate of speed. For example: When a girl with long hair twirls and stops, her hair would follow the twirl but stops later time. This applies to all body parts. When a character is turning, the pelvis will lead then the chest follows.

6. Lead with Eyes & Eye Darts

A character has to blink in every 2 seconds so it 'looks' alive. That is by far the worst tip ever given to any animator. You Don't blink for no reason, and you most definitely don't have your eyes looking at a blank space. The eyes are the important feature of facial animations because it directs the audiences to what you want them to see. Doing this right would deliver the right emotions to the viewers.

7. Animate with Basic Models

To animate well, you need a smooth running PC to be able to get a list of the timing and overall animation of the scene. Do not turn on high-quality viewports as it will waste your time playblasting the scene over and over again to check time. Keep character models at minimal polygon when animating. Even better if you hide the environment and background if it's not yet needed. It will allow you to animate without any delays. Some scenes can be quite heavy on the PC. If so, you can isolate your character and animate.

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Constantly practice can improve your animation skill and keep in mind that with enough training and knowledge, you too can create amazing animations and become a successful animator.