One of my most commonly reoccurring feelings in animation comes when I reopen a previously saved piece after a lengthy break. I open to find the animation looking worse then when I left it. No, theAnimation gremlins haven't been in messing with my curve editor, it's just how I really feel about the work in its current state, having looked at it with fresh eyes rather than rose tinted spectacles. The animations hasn't changed, but I can now see errors I hadn't noticed before.
Now when I'm feeling in a bit of a slump and no progress is being made, ill go do the washing up or a similar task. I get to stretch my legs, have a break, keep the misses quiet and get a fresh perspective! Doing a task I consider to be less enjoyable then animation will often improve my mood towards animating if I hit a downer, so hitting the Xbox or browsing wont really help me get back into it.
Today after doing the washing up, I came back to realise that I hadn't followed my reference footage quite as well as I would have liked. So the obvious thing to do was to follow it alongside my animation and give it a good tweaking. The result was a much fuller range of movement, the scary part will be when I move to the splining stage, just hope it doesn't all go to jelly!
-Paul out.
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