Time for action – making a folder of your animation heroes
You probably already have bookmark folders in your browser. Why not create one of your favorite animation heroes? The following steps will help you to make a folder for your animation heroes:
- Think of who your animation heroes are.
- Create a bookmarks folder in your web browser that will store the addresses of websites about your favorite animators or animations that you have seen.
- Now, go online and look at some works that you know, whether it's Disney's Fantasia, South Park, or Plumiferos (Free Birds), which was the first feature length film made entirely in Blender.
- Add a link to your folder whenever you find something you like.
- You can find quite a number of interesting animations by just looking around on the Web. For example, Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues is a feature animation done by one person in Flash. It's pretty amazing. I also found Snow-bo, by Vera Brosgol and Jenn Kluska, and Kenya on www.weebls-stuff.com. There are many great Blender animations at www.blenderartists.org.
- Come back and watch these animations repeatedly. You'll see something new each time.
What just happened?
You just gave yourself an animation reference library to enjoy and study. As you learn animation, you may want to come back to them as references, to see how they solved animation problems.
