{"id":1244,"date":"2017-04-21T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animationkolkata.com\/blog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-04-15T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:04:11","slug":"10-traits-of-good-animator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationkolkata.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/10-traits-of-good-animator\/","title":{"rendered":"10 TRAITS OF GOOD ANIMATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animation has a history of more than a hundred years. It is the animator who has created this history in the world of animation.<\/p>\n

It has evolved from many stages staring from flat 2d cartoons to 3d animation films.<\/p>\n

It has emerged as an industry in recent two decades.<\/p>\n

The aesthetics of designing characters has been incredibly changed.<\/p>\n

There has been improvement in the way animated films are created.<\/p>\n

\"ANIMATOR<\/p>\n

This has resulted into the increase of viewer\u2019s expectation every year for animated films.<\/p>\n

The viewer\u2019s keenness grows as the quality of animation gets improved with release of every new movie. Animators play an important role in making of these movies.<\/p>\n

Animators must be a visualizer.<\/p>\n

Darren Aronofsky, American film director, says \u201cAn animator has to live life twenty-four times than a normal human being do that is every twenty-four frames of a second<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is very true as the animator has to craft each and every movement.<\/p>\n

There are various aspects that animator has to keep in mind while working on animation films.<\/p>\n

A good animator observes everything around and learns.<\/p>\n

If you want to become a good animator you must learn to observe things.<\/p>\n

You can watch people around you and analyze their behavior.<\/p>\n

As this practice is very good for students as you never stop learning and thus start getting better in your field.<\/p>\n

It is like a valuable learning experience for budding animators.<\/p>\n

Starting a conversation with new peoples will get you know more about them and most importantly you will learn a lot.<\/p>\n

While talking to them you can observe their behavior and expressions which will help you building your own character.<\/p>\n

Eventually you will start applying those lessons in your story.<\/p>\n

One of the important thing while designing a character you have to be very patient and have to keep practicing until you achieve your goal.<\/p>\n

The more curious you are, the closer you get to your goal.<\/p>\n

You must encircle an environment around the character you are drawing.<\/p>\n

The environment has huge influence in the story of that character.<\/p>\n

The characters surrounding also affects the characters body mechanism and its behavior.<\/p>\n

This will also help you with the projection work while designing its movements and acting.<\/p>\n

Designing the character is not just enough for animation.<\/p>\n

You also have to learn the camera angle and projection of various things in a particular frame.<\/p>\n

For this you can take your phone or camera and click pictures while you are walking around a garden or any place with reference to your story.<\/p>\n

Taking pictures will let you learn about understanding perspective.<\/p>\n

This will also help in framing your work. Composing the work together results in doing better layering procedure.<\/p>\n

Though the animation is mostly depends on the creativity of the animator, but there are some traits that do matter while designing the characters.<\/p>\n

These traits will help making them cute, approachable and lively. Let\u2019s see them one by one:<\/p>\n