Well folks, I decided to make a tutorial on a simple fact of animation.
How does one become better/ excel past the beginner phase?
Its quite simple.
First you must ask yourself this question:
What is my learning style?
If you are like me, and learn visually, then maybe I can help you.
Now what I'm going to suggest may seem like "Well no shit", but you would be surprised at how many people don't do this.
First off pick a general basic principle in pivot. For my example, I'm going to choose 3D background movements and Basic body movements.
Second, find a veteran or elite quality animation that has what you are wanting to learn.
Third, get the .piv file of it, and carefully study each frame and learn how to make the movements.
Fourth, open up your own .piv window and recreate FRAME FOR FRAME everything you want to learn off of the animation.
Fifth, practice it a couple times, make sure you got down the movements.
Sixth, take away the model .piv you were studying, and try to do it on your own.
Basically, what you are doing is memorizing how to make the correct movements. Once you do this, you can allocate everything you have learned into every animation, making the quality much better.
-- The Down Side
The down side to this way of learning and becomming better, is it lacks creativity. By copying things you see, you are not creating something new.
My suggestion would be to learn a technique, and then change it in many ways so that it is your own. This way of learning is just to get you started, and to help you learn the correct movements.
I hope this helps all you new guys joining the Pivot Animation ranks.
