LaNiñja

Congratulations on your new loving, extremely loud mom

Lesson #5 cell growth/ re-growth

Rocky is supposed to be that one Toby Maguire meme btw

Again sorry for any (past/now) grammar errors. ALSO huge thanks for the people giving me ideas and correcting me!! I do truly love learning about biology facts so if you have any always fell free to share!!

“Lesson #1 how far can humans see”

*read in goblin voice* HAHAHA THAT'S RIGHT, IT IS I! The freaky guy who likes characters from almost forgotten or little-known movies or cartoons

its kind of the opposite for me, my roughs look so ass😭 but i learned that its okay because each new pass is an opportunity to improve things and fix mistakes

its always best not to overthink things and just plow through the work, at least for me bc i know if i stop to plan, nothing will ever get finished

also if youre worried with about your cleanup being too stiff, the solution ive found for myself is to have a bigger gap between it and tiedown, so youre not just tracing over the same lines. its more tricky tho because you have to figure out a lot of things like perspective and volume while also drawing clean, but this way your linework will be more intentional

to make it easier to maintain consistency and good spacing, animate body parts (or even parts of body parts) separately, like go through the entire movement of the bottom side of the elbow, then return to frame one and do the top side, etc (you can kind of see it in the video)

also, if something is bothering you, like if a drawing seems kinda off, or you feel like the animation is jittery in some spot, my advice is to get in there and fix it! even if it seems like its gonna be too much unnecessary work. at least for me, i know if something is bothering me, it will bother me every time i watch the animation, so its better to fix it than to have an artwork i cant look at.

Anyway, my question is both where and how you’ve become so fluent! I am extremely interested in animation, but have little idea where to start or even do any of the sick lineart and make it look clean

In short I’m kinda overwhelmed! 😭

Any good pointers?

Thanks a bunch!

(Ps- thanks for uploading your process video on the phm animation, it gives me a lot of really good additional insight!)

tyy🥺 you are all so kind here.. really motivates me to work and get better!!

i just graduated sheridan college! i cannot understate its help to me personally, but i believe its not necessary to be college educated to be a good artist.

what college gives you that is hard to find outside it is access to a big art community (with whom you will interact every day for four years and then most likely work with for the rest of your career) and access to life drawing

my suggestions:

• join an art/animation discord server and ask ppl for critique!

• do some fundamentals exercises (life drawing, bouncing balls, shapes in perspective etc.) BUT draw what you like. your ocs, or fanart, or just your favorite subject.

like, not just a boring pendulum swinging in a white void, but your favorite character holding a yoyo or a pocket watch or smth.

always shoehorn things you love into boring homework. life will be more bearable this way

• with every big project, try to use it to learn something new. a new style, or technique, or software. its hard to sit down and watch three hours of dry software tutorials. its easier to do that if all that time youre thinking how exactly youre gonna use these functions for your project.

• use lots of references! i film my own references for animation. it helps me with perspective, anatomy, timing, and performance!

it doesn't matter if youre a good actor (i really really am not), because you still subconsciously make little flourishes when you move, and they make all the difference.

i didnt film a reference for grace rocky hug. and even if i did, i would not show it anyway :P

• i know this sounds very generic, but like,, have fun? i always put music or an audiobook in the background (sorry milt kahl), and drink tasty drinks.

when youre doing roughs you definitely should concentrate fully, but when youre spending the entire day doing line between line cleanup (or spending the second day completely redoing what youve done the day before, haha totally not me right now😀), you might want to make life a little easier.

but if not me then.. who else?

veerry different from my usual content but I wanted to share this here anyway :]]

I loved this scene in particular and no one else was making enough fanart of it so i did it myself!!