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Help! What do I buy?? I get this question all the time from people diving into the digital drawing realm. I’m not a viral Youtube reviewer, but here’s a quick guide to what’s what when you are looking for digital drawing equipment. Graphics tablet or Drawing tablet? A graphics tablet is something you plug into […]
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Schools have great resources for students, but actually getting to campus to use the labs and equipment isn’t always possible. Whether it’s a long commute, a snow day, or a COVID-19 pandemic, working remotely can sometimes be a necessity. Making a home shooting station: Animation is simply a series of photographs played in sequence at […]
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Animation Foundation / Blog / Lecture Notes February 1, 2020
I talk about our brains and perception a lot in class. Animation is just a weird thing. It’s like real life, but twisted and distorted in a colorful wonderful way. That’s a lot for our brains to handle and when images are whipping by at 24fps, the more help we can give our audience, the […]
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Animation Foundation / Blog / Lecture Notes January 19, 2020
Sifting through the intertwining principles of Anticipation, Follow Through, Overlapping Action, and Secondary Action
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There’s a time and a place to flip the classroom, and I think teaching the animation fundamentals is one of those times. First off, Alan Becker has created a series of videos that explain the classic 12 principles of animation very well in a non-Disney way. I have a whole 90 minute lecture on these […]