Professional Article review

Drawing and Animation 

While looking through options for articles to read about animation an article about how drawing relates to animation caught my eye, This article made the simple point that to be a good animated you must start simply with drawing and understanding how to draw. The other large point in the article was you do not by any means have to be amazing at drawing or be a crazy good artist you just must understand specific drawing principles that will apply to your animation. Finally the article made the point that through practicing and the right drawing exercises you can learn how to observe the world around you for the details and not just what you think something is and training your brain toes this way helps you with both drawing and animation.

Authors Argument 

The authors argument is that for any animation job or animation related job you must know how to draw and that the biggest problem artists have is not technique or inspiration but lack of seeing.  

Lack of Seeing 

To support the second half of this argument the author supports this by claiming the left side of our brain filters out things we see making stuff simpler such as when you walk down the street you don't notice most of the details but notice thing for what you think they are. When you see a person you don't notice specifics and you think of them in a general term like a head is a oval and a leg is 2 lines with a slight bend. The author then goes on to show simple exercise in learning how to draw movement and contour and learn how to draw human figure.

Strengths and weaknesses

The author does a great job at explaining what each exercise is for and exactly how to do it. great detail is given on how to perform tasks and why it will help you but there is an overall lack of quotes and expert advice. Most of the article is just to authors view it would add a lot if they used sorces or people that are professionals to explain. If the author would also state what profession they hav that may relate to animation that would also help with reliability.

My Take

I think the article is overall very helpful and informative. The author backs their points up with lots of explanations and shows why thing help. The main point of the article I think is very significant because animation is very similar to drawing you just then move the drawings and also many of the skills used in drawing also can apply to animation. I may try some of the things mentioned in the article to improve my animations and or drawing skills so that in the future my animation characters will look more realistic.

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