![]() Production assistants will often go to you and follow up on scenes. It’s probably different in your country, but the idea remains since animation is a lot of work, being fast (and good) will be helpful as deadlines are often tight. You also need to learn to work fast, in my studio experience, work is per output so we stayed late in the studio, some even slept there, but pay is only for the scenes you finished not the fixups, not the staying late. Animation is the illusion of life not just a single frame of drawing, so be able to create deformed or ‘wrong’ or weird poses that works well as animations. Some artists turned animator will be struggling to animate and put depth. Learn 3d even just the basics,it helps you make sense of depth and apply it to animations in 2d as well. (Cartoon) Shows often have different standards and even animation timing or style. So there are techniques in animation where you have to unlearn things as an illustrator/artist. If you have your own style as well and art styles you like, you should forget those while you work on a show with a specific art style. Also, character design for animation is different in illustration. Sometimes, it looks weird as a still frame and timing should be precise but if you play it as animation, it looks good. You have to match the mouth substitution to the …sound not the spelling of the word being said. One of the things that blew my mind when I was learning animation is lipsynch. ![]() Plus your studio’s director/checker will be giving you fixup notes, you have to be thick skinned and learn to let go (and then sometimes the show you are working on has its own director, so there’s fixups for a second time). The others are sense of timing (really important in 2d as you would be working in frames of drawing), knowledge of body in motion, expressing emotion, strong knowledge of anatomy, and patience to draw 24 drawings for like half a day and have a 1 second animation to show for it. Drawing skill is just one of the aspects of it. However being good at art is different from being good at animation. ![]() You can check out my art at the link below to see my skill level changed careers to animation without going to art school. Please share are routes you took, I understand everyone’s path is different but I’m so lost and alone! Thank you □ I just don’t know if I should self teach with Skill share or get more loans from a School and put myself through rigorous classes while still working a stressful customer service job! I just don’t want to waste anymore time or money. I’m willing to work full time with hair and use anything minute of my free time towards my art career. I understand alot of people say that you can be self taught but I would just love to hear from someone about feasible paths they took. I definitely have the potential but I have no idea if I should uproot my job to go to Art school or stretch myself thin with work and school. I am not experienced in anything animation wise. I’ve been an artist since I was young but have not put the time consistently enough to feel like I’m qualified to apply for an animation position. I also have loans from beauty school so I have felt like a failure for wanting to start over. I live with my boyfriend in our own apartment so I can’t just quit my job to start this journey. Hello! My name is Lily, I’m 23 and I have been a fulltime hairstylist for about 2 years now.
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