Thursday, February 28, 2013

#1 My first blog post

Who am I?

I am a 24-year-old student from a primitive European tribe called Czech republic. I´ve always liked drawing and I have tried making proper pictures or some short comics, but I didn't enjoy these so much. Now I am interested in traditional animation, and I would like to make a short animated video. And I have decided to make this blog to write about the process of making the video. Hopefully there will be a happy ending.

Why am I writing this blog?

There are three reasons. Firstly, I´d like to get myself motivated to finish the animation experiment of mine and I think this could help. Secondly, if I have a problem with something and write about it, somebody can help me (this is based on a wildly optimistic assumption that there will be at least one person reading this blog). And thirdly, if I describe what I do and how I do it, someone might find it helpful. 

What do I know about animation?

Nothing. I have made one short animated video, which could be much worse, I think. You can watch it below, if you want, but feel free not to if you don´t. I am trying to learn more about animation and I am at the beginning.

  

Is this a tutorial?

The fact that I know almost nothing about animation makes it really hard to call this a tutorial. I would say that this is a tutorial only if the resulting video is good. Which we can't know until we see it, can we?

That´s all

I think this could be enough for this post. Hopefully, I´ve explained what I want to do and what this is about and hopefully it makes some sense. Maybe it´s obvious, but any comments, opinions, ideas, advice, criticism and other forms of comments are welcome.

Thanks for reading all this!

P.S. If you skipped the post and just glanced down here, then I take back my thanking you and shame on you, you text-skipper.