In 2020, we’re starting the year off with animation. I’ve tried making short animations before but am excited to try it out for real. Originally we were going to use the drawing tablets to make our animations, something I was very excited about because it meant that I could actually draw things. But no. It turns out we are NOT using the drawing tablets. They have decided that, despite their functionality in the past, they are going on strike and will not be cooperating with the computers this year. Maybe Mr.B will scare some obedience into them, maybe they’ll decide to retire early, I don’t know. Luckily the drawing tablets have not doomed animation forever. We are instead doing animation using the trusty old mouse and keyboard. Prior to the drawing tablet rebelion, we received a long talk on animation, how it works and how hard it is. Even though the computer has lots of fancy shortcuts to make animation easier, it still takes hours for just a short animation. These features save us the time of having to draw out every single frame (like I would’ve done if I hadn't read the instructions) but you still have to go back and tweak each and every frame, along with saving them all individually. I’m surprised that people have the dedication to create whole animated movies, even if they are getting paid.
After learning about the painstaking hours of work that go into only small amounts of actual animation, I'm surprised that there are so many animated movies and clips out there, I didn’t think people had the patience for that. So, animation, what is it? Animation is when a series of pictures are shown one after the other so fast that it tricks your brain into thinking they are moving. This proves that humans aren’t as smart as we think we are. But that’s ok because if it didn’t trick our brain then we would never have animated movies, and that would be terrible. Overall,
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AuthorMy name is Xiomara Colopy. I am a student at DSA and am currently taking Digital Design and Animation 1 . Categories
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