Pixar Class Week 1

A brief summary of my first pixar class, oh, it seems like there are a lot of great animators are there :D

• Rhythm, Timing, Beat
• Rhythm-----pattern, texturing, timing
• Learning drawing is vital!
• Anticipation------every movement in animation should have
• Arc-----every single thing in body should have
• No overshoot, no energy
• exaggerate first and then pull it back until it's fit with animation(Don't be afraid of exaggerating too much)
• focus on PRINCIPLES-----staging, posing, anticipation (mainly missed)
• Rhythm, Timing, Spacing-----nail them down FIRST
• KEEP IT SIMPLE
• They never seen good timing and spacing for Jump assignment
• contact frame-----right before and after the energy applies, foot touches the ground, stretch legs
• look for contact poses-----key
• video reference-----cool motion, we could get the acting that people can't think of consciously
  
• video-reference-----push things more, search what makes animation unique
• show 5 times before dailies
• be careful the gap between keys-----graph editor
• Smooth out until the keys faded out-----I don't know which frame is the keys, ease-in and ease-out

AnimSchool -- Selections From Animation Principles Lecture

Looks Awesome :D

Bad Acting Speed

Acting speed depends on the character's emotion, in the certain circumstance. I kind of liked this acting, when he reacts what he saw on the dish. He goes like..frozen. I used to like this contrast and pose BUT, what do you think he's seeing inside that? He moves super quick and frozen...umm I was actually thinking inside that was something he does't like but look at his face!!

He is more like SCARED!!...it actually more looks like someone pointing a gun to him...and I was like"what the hell is this crap pose, and timing?"

There's no great pose without any definition of circumstance, character and situation. I will change this pose and timing and will pose it later how this pose changes.

I remember what Pixar animator said, exaggeration is not big pose but -ER pose!! I need to change this pose more "ew I don't wanna eat this"er pose. and Tom also told me, acting speed depends on the emotion, if he is happy, he might move slowly and if he is surprised, he might move quickly (OF COURSE, the kind of happiness also need to be considered!! like... WHY he is happy? What is he surprised at?, which means he can move very very slow, even if he surprised) ...see? Depends!!

VNOG Blog: Exaggeration

VNOG Blog: Exaggeration:

"But many students often misunderstand the meaning of exaggeration; they think it always means 'bigger' or 'faster' or 'broader'."