Animation Hell – How you can avoid it (or escape)
We’ve all pulled an ‘all nighter’ at least once in our lives, but is this a wise career move for our animation? How does over working ourselves, especially in animation, affect us long term?
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Here is the video where I explain the effects of over animating in detail , and also some guidelines to help you avoid it in the future:
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All 4 minutes of this animation tutorial are jam-packed with terrific animation tips and general pointers, so watch it all the way through!
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If you want a course that will help you balance your Education with your Experience, and your Speed with your Quality, check out The Guardian Training Program. It will help you make continual self improvement into a habit!
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NOW! Let’s review what was covered about your Capacity for Animation Production, or your CAP.
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- Broadly, it is the amount of animation you are able to produce to the required quality standards within a specific amount of time.
- So, if you had to produce Pixar quality animation you might only be able to produce 1 second per week.
- Yet if you had to produce low-budget tv quality animation you might be able to produce 30 seconds in a week.
- This is your CAP.
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- Sleeping less or pulling ‘all nighters’
- Taking fewer or shorter breaks
- Ignoring the fundamental Principles of Animation or ‘cutting corners’
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- Bad Animation Habits
- Burnout
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- This is because: We will never get more Time.
- But we can gain more Education
- And more Experience

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- Greater Speed.
- Higher Quality.
- More done in the same amount of time.

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- Energy = Capacity to do work.
- Physical Energy
- Emotional Energy
- Mental Energy
- Spiritual Energy
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Tags: Animation Ability, Animation Capacity














Vraiment un excellent cours qu’ on peux le suivre , j ai seulement un question , est c que tous les cours en English ? ou peut être on a la chance de suive nous les francophone tous les cour en français ? merci
Hi DJ,
Thanks for posting onece again an excellent tip…
simple you this blog is great!
Muchas Gracias!
Very good down-to-earth advice, the sort of advice that when you hear it you think “Oh yeah, so simple, so clever, so why didn’t I think of that for myself!”
Side note: I find the blue text on black background hard to read, any chance of a lighter colour?
i WATCHED some of the tutorials, they are great.
Only one thing I am concerning is the colour of the text.
dark blue text against black bg makes my eye very difficult to read and understand.
It will be perfect if u changed the colour to make it easier to read.