I'm learning Animation. Sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm making progress, but I do progress.

Current project: Squirrel Animation

A curious squirrel jumping and observing it's surroundings
A curious squirrel jumping and observing it's surroundings

This is an exercise from Pierrick Picaut's Animation Course. I'm at chapter 3 out of 9 and it's been pretty difficult to be honest. I think it's a me issue, I kind-off get stuck before actually trying because of the fear for the result not looking good enough. I pushed through this feeling of anxiety, I know it's just in my head. I don't feel like this always, it's just when I'm learning something completely new. Before starting the course I came with a 'blank paper' mindset, absorb everything. Maybe that's why. There's maybe a thought that I didn't catch everything, therefore my animation = bad. I learn to accept this feeling and live with it.

PIerrick Picaut's Animation Course Image Cover

What I do besides this is follow the Animation Survival Kit by Richard Williams (RIP). It helps a ton because he explains it so well even a toddler can understand. It's magnificent.

The DVD's of the Animation Survival Kit