Nina's animation learning page

  2D animation Getting started with tools In the old days animations were drawn on special paper and then transferred onto clear acetate sheets called cels for painting. Then they were photographed frame by frame. Sounds like terrible amount of work, right? Well, hand drawn animators still create their animations frame by frame  using very similar principles as in the beginning. So no laughing for poor  animators of the old times. No need to give up either. Some things have changed! Cels are not in use anymore after scanning drawings into the computer  for digital coloring became possible, and now many hand drawn animators  skip paper altogether and draw directly into the computer using drawing tablets. So yes the process is getting faster all the time. Now that the idea is to become an animator and we have dropped paper and cells from the tools and have a fast glance on my desk where I have my XP-Pen ready for drawing digitally, it's time to choose (2D) animati...

  Media Diary observation I use social media too much, but not more than most people. The social media platforms that I mainly use are Instagram and Youtube. I have Facebook account but I rarely use it. Can't really say to be an active poster in Instagram, but I do follow what others are doing. I follow a lot of artists and also keep up with some friends. I watch Youtube almost every day, usually look for tutorials but sometimes just watch random videos. If it's cute animal videos, good! If it's negative videos that only had an interesting thumbnail, wasted my time. And of course I watch films, series, read webcomics and play games. I find that they are better ways to consume media than mindless post scrolling. Spotify and Whatsapp are in my everyday use, and I like them because I don't feel quilty about talking with friends or listening music.  I rarely go anywhere without listening to music and too many times fall asleep with headphones and music on, only to wake up t...

BLOG INTRODUCTION Hello and welcome to my first ever blog! I'm Nina, a first year Interactive Media student in TAMK. It was quite easy for me to decide the topic of my blog. I wanted it to be something I will focus on with passion and since my first focus is learning animation and I'm waiting for the introduction course to start I decided to make myself ready with having a bit of research about the subject myself. The goal is to get a good overall picture about animation, what skills I already have, what there is to learn, different softwares, techniques and my preferences that may arise and share them here. It is very broad subject, but I'm sure with this blog I'll be more prepared for the animation courses ahead of me.  Wish me luck and join the journey! My hobbies: cosplay, dancing, drawing, painting, writing, comics, a little gaming Favorite color: green Pets: two cats Shifu & Yoda