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MannyAnims
2022-09-22 21:18:50 UTC I have been animating for around 2 and half years with Sticknodes. Which is around 19% percent of my life. And yet, for the life of me. I can’t animate walking, running, or even stay motivated. There are so many cool things I wanna animate and mess around with. But I can’t stay motivated. I never put 100% into my project. If I did I would actually be decent, but I just can’t. So I have a question. How they heck do you guys stay motivated or animate walking? I literally make my Stickfigures jump or dash wherever they need to go.
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Motivated:
I find doing something you are TRULY enthusiastic about helps. You can’t put 100% when you don’t really care about it. Also, make sure not to overwork yourself in one sitting… if you do a lot of work in a short time, your brain will make it boring. Space it out and make it something to look forward to. A healthy amount of sleep is a huge factor as well.
Walking:
Idk lol
Here’s the thing : if you don’t wanna animate, then don’t animate
And if you’re not motivated, that’s normal, animation is painful and there’s not a single human on earth who likes to animate , they only like the end result.
You can try to make it less painful aka less daunting by learning The Flow™, your animations don’t need to look smooth, they only need to look somewhat natural, meaning you can get away with lower frame rates.
Take Nonex for example, bro doesn’t even go past 20 FPS, and his animations still look good.
Or y’know, mash the ” add tweened frames ” button to oblivion
Update. Thanks guys, but I have made a decision. I will force my brother to animate for me as I whip him with a whip if he messes up. I shall then plagiarize his work and become rich and famous etc.
(I’m joking)
(Maybe)