2011/09/27

First day at Animation Mentor


We start at last...  Today was my first day at Animation Mentor, it was very exiting to log into AM website and see the amount of students online from all over the world come together to learn about the art of animation.

In this first term ( Basic Foundations ) I was assigned to be mentored by Adam Green.   Adam is such an amazing animator, he is currently working at Walt Disney Animation Studios.. woww..   He has an impressive list of credits that includes: Tangled,
Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!  , I'm really lucky to be mentored by such a great artist.

The first week's lecture was a general discussion about the animation industry, it included very simple yet important tips that every animator should consider through out his/her career.




The key points for the lecture are :

- Every animator should find his own source of inspiration, whether its another animator, a painter, or a movie..etc.

- An animator is constantly learning. No matter how good you think you are, you have to keep improving your skills.


- Animators are similar to actors, the only difference is that after studying the performance personalty and attitude of the character, we need to break that performance and emotion down into keyframes.


- Observe your surrounding, & always carry a sketch book & a pencil to capture any pose or gesture that might add

to your visual reference.

- Take video reference for every shot you want to animate, either by shooting your self or using an existing footage.  

This step is often ignored, but I can not stress how important its to achieve a better results. 

- Animation is an art form, it makes no difference whether its a stop motion, 2D, or 3D... the principles are all the same.

- In your animation career,  always keep your ears opened to criticism, and do not take any critique as a personal attack.


- Never ever steel other person's work and claim it as your own.


Again, This advise above comes from leaders in the animation industry, & we should take them seriously if we aim to become a professional animators (especially in the Arab world).

5 comments:

  1. Thank you very much for sharing this important advices
    really you are one of my sources of inspiration in my art and animation way


    Thanks again my country son :)

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  2. hey do you have some sample videos of the class with you? if it is please share with the aspiring animators.

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    1. "hey do you have some sample videos of the class with you? if it is please share with the aspiring animators."
      -- approach Animation mentor

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