Animating

About a month ago, I started learning how to animate. The animation teacher comes every alternate Saturday. When we started classes, the instructor told us to get a  "Wacom." A wacom is connected to your computer and its like a sketch pad. It helps with animation because before the wacom was invented,  people drew all of their characters  on a device called a lightbox. 

This is my Wacom :)...

This is a light box.

On our first class, we learned the basics like who created the first animated movie and how they did it. the instructor even showed us videos and movie previews... He said... "animation is the only subject that requires you to watch movies."
That sounds awesome doesn't it? Anyway, by the end of the class, the animation teacher told us to watch The Little     Mermaid or any
                                                                  other old Animated movie like, Lion King,Mickey Mouse, etc.
  

The next time he came, we had our Wacom ready. He installed it for us .. and that day he showed us some of the Principles of Animation.  He even showed us how different principles were used in animation, by showing the way a ball bounces, and the way it comes to a stop when it's been rolled.He told us to watch Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 whenever we got free time.

Those movies are hilarious you have to watch it, if you haven't already :). 

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This is the first painting I did on my Wacom..

    

 

Just last week, we learned one point perspective. It's quite cool, the way everything moves toward that one point. He then showed us some examples of one point and two  point perspective. He said "You usually see things in two point perspective." next time we'll be learning that. Then after that I think it'll be three point perspective. I found three point perspective really confusing. It's got three vanishing points and two different ways of viewing it. The Bird's eye's view and the Worm's eye view. At the end of the session he gave me H.W. - Draw 5 pages of the one point perspective.

One Point Perspective

I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it :)