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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

absolutely nobody asked but here, have them anyway (all via the Islamic Fashion Institute):

i have seen so many arabic/middle-eastern inspired fantasy settings where women’s fashion is made to be so revealing and near sexualised, because apparently the western people who make them cannot think of “pretty enough” designs that honour muslim culture and so erase it.

• I eat breakfast while...

• I take the bus while...

• I go to work while...

• I listen to the radio while...

• I put a wash on while...

• I cook lunch while...

• I greet my colleagues while...

• I vacuum the floor while...

• I read a book while...

• I go to the loo while...

• I go to the supermarket while...

• I go to a demo while...

• I laugh at a joke while...

• I check IG while...

• I look at myself in the mirror while...

• I do the dishes while...

• I call a friend on the phone while...

• I go to the gym while...

• I ask myself how all this is possible while...

• I watch on TV Gaza getting bombed while...

• I put my alarm for tomorrow while...

• I fall asleep while...

It's the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You're probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a "does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?"-kind of way.

I think that's also why sometimes, pictures you haven't looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: "Hey past-me was unto something! Why can't I replicate it nowadays?". It's probably specifically because you've forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

quick intros of my little OCs that exist in my head if anyone was ever curious !! :) or at least the ones that form a solid connected story, their basic rundowns :3