Noah’s Ark Animation Passes
Animation is truly challenging. It’s when you sit down and spend your time thinking about story poses and breakdowns and drawing them all out. It’s also about how you want the timing and spacing to be as accurate as possible so the movements look believable. Sometimes, I find that the classically trained animators have a better grasp of moving the characters because they know how to draw out the story poses, extremes, breakdowns, secondary breakdowns, etc. Although as challenging as it may be, it is still fun to learn because it takes a lot of patience to master this craft and it makes my observation and understanding of life more enjoyable.
Moving on, I animated Bill Cosby’s Noah’s Ark for an assignment in class. What I did in the first pass is that I modeled simple props and focused on the Carpenter’s (a.k.a Noah) movement first.
Then on the second pass, I keyed the neighbor’s story poses in stepped tangent and arranged some of the timing and spacing on the Carpenter Rig.
I still have a lot to learn though and I’m learning a lot during these few months in school. Hopefully, I could continue improving in the future. 
