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The quadrupeds appear in practically all the productions. In this post you will find a video in which I explain the keys to locomotion in primates. Not only is it enough to have a good reference video to make a great animation. Rotoscopying the video will only lead to inconsistent and empty animation.. We need to understand the basics of locomotion ...

We could define a film as an audiovisual work that tells us a story, where each individual shot shows a short part of that story. This way, the viewer keeps receiving the information with enough time to understand what happens, both from the cognitive as well as the emotional standpoint. Tengo claro que el trabajo fundamental del animador es ...

One of the challenges that animators frequently set to themselves in their animation tests, is achieving the purest cartoony style animation. It’s an interesting challenge, but before going about it we must analyze its techniques, why they work and when to apply them. Una animación cartoon no es un personaje moviéndose como loco de ...

To everyone who is passionate about animation, keeping an open mind and the eagerness to learn, is a must if they're to keep progressing as professionals. I've been asked many times for advice on what to do or what to study in order to keep growing as animators. I think there are a lot of options, like life drawing, photography, el teatro… En general cualquier disciplina ...

A good animator has to manage to create the impression that their character thinks, because the camera has the capacity of constantly reading the thoughts of the character. If our character stops thinking for a moment, they will look as if they were daydreaming and the audience will perceive it immediately. At that point, the spectator will disconnect and the illusion of the movies will vanish… Why? ...

In daily life people have a habit of not always saying what they mean. Sometimes they realize that it’s not polite saying what they really think, por eso encubrimos la verdad con otras palabras y dejamos a la suspicacia del interlocutor que consiga entender el significado real de lo que se ve en la ...

We humans are social beings by nature and therefore feel the need to communicate with others. We express ourselves through words, facial expressions and body movement. Within this context there are aspects we control more easily, for instance, what we express through words. But there is another much more involuntary part and ...

When we have to go about a scene in which a character has to lift something heavy, we usually tend to address it in a purely physical fashion. We try to figure how much the object weighs and consider how much physical effort should the character put into lifting or moving it. But to achieve credibility in acting ago ...