Its getting clearer to me now that nothing is new and old things that are good are always revisited even in creating new things. Stop Motion animation will never die.
When I had the opportunity to get involved with Stop Motion, i thought NO! That's extinct so I went into 2D animation and then to 3D only to come back to develop an interest in Stop Motion at the end of the day. WOW! I am amazed at how that can happen and that it could happen to me as a person who loves technology and new things so much because God is always doing new things.
Sometimes, not necessarily always, if you can create one thing, anything at all, you have the ability to create a thousand more.
There's nothing wrong in trying and not liking what you're seeing yourself do until you begin to see what you like but too many of us like the drive thru approach, yes very convenient but has no substance of a real fulfillement.
Perfection is the name of the thief that's always trying to steal from people but there's good news here. In Charater design and animation, perfection is not usually noticed because there's a lot of illumination going on here.
Character creation is one of the simplest things to achieve, when it comes to animation.
One would think it's really a difficult task but all there is to it is to develop the ability to think like a 👶. In context, even spiritually speaking, you have to be able to think like a child in order to inherit eternal life. Think about it and ask yourself a question; what does it take after all? Why am I delaying myself ?, why do I think every character has already been designed and nothing new can be designed?
If you can ask, you surely can answer so let's begin from here.
Animation can be very tedious and slow to accomplish which makes it more likely that many people who are even talented may not go into it but it's so FUN to create.
You start by drawing and all of a sudden your drawing starts moving, the end result is always thought provoking. Could it be how God made all things and people too?
Here is a sample of a scene I made many years ago with Blenda 4.something
Often times character design sounds like a big name or something that's really difficult to create but it's not. It is just what you put into consideration in creating or drawing a cartoon after it's behavioral pattern.
What I have simply done here is designed a beautiful queen fish and the only difference is red lips and crown and it worked.
Sometimes we need our logos and lettering to move about in other to create some impression. That's what graphic animation is all about. Mostly you will find these in website designs, movies intros and TV adverts.
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