Animation Demo with Aaron Blaise Livestream

Move your body, maybe ? And try not to sit around in one place for too long.

You shouldn't look at it as problem, but rather as something you correct by practicing anatomy itself. You will get better little by little, but keep in mind, be fully immersed in it. Don't get distracted by external noise, focus. Also, problems create more problems and depending on your other beliefs it might slow down your process of learning. Learning process is psychological on many levels. And you're young, create some sort of plan in your head what to study and how often. Don't just randomly jump to drawing anatomy. And put more focus on parts you aren't good at yet. It forces you to go outside of comfort zone. Kinda sucks when you start, but eventually you'll enjoy it. Marc Brunet has awesome video on how to learn faster, "the secret rule to learn anything faster". He has very good points but don't take them word by word, go with what feels right to you and create new learning habits with information you already have and what he, or others, explain. If you wonder why some people learn super fast and others slow, it's about mindset, focus and goals.

Thing is, whatever we're feeling, once you're drawing, will slip out onto the page. So if you're feeling sad, but wanna make something happy, chances are that once you're comfortable in mind, body and space i.e. when you're safe and can be vulnerable in the space around you, your true feelings will let slip. And that's the fun part about it. You don't expect what you're gonna draw, until it's already out on the page, with your face flushed when you see all the embarrassing things you drew at that moment. Feels threatening, but when you're safe, it will be delightful. My advice, at that moment, you need to process those feelings so give yourself a break, a respite. Take some time out to process what you're feeling. Maybe try giving form to your feelings ? What color is my feelings? What linework best expresses my feelings? And how would my feelings look like if it was a character ? Give voice to your feelings. Then if you wanna go deeper, you can ask yourself : "How did I come to feel this way ? what was the situation that resulted in me feeling this way? Was it a breakup? Betrayal of trust? Did someone die ?" And all in a kind, non-judgmental manner, if possible. Hope this helps. ✌🏽

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would chuck as much wood as it could.

To answer your question, I ask you a question (reverse uno card) : Have you done any animation for yourself? Like, when you have free time and you just wanna animate sth for the sake of animation, outside of industry requirements. Cuz that's when you can be free and experiment with the kinda animation you wanna try out. The things you produce for the company and the things you produce for yourself. The main thing you wanna do here is to remind yourself why you took up animation in the first place. Most probably, you got inspired in your earlier days and when you actually had the first experience of making an animation, it must've been fun. Forgive me if I'm assuming, but I assume that's why you took up animation in the first place. Of course, not to reject the desk job animation cuz I mean, how else will you pay for those delicious po– I mean food, water and all such necessities. I'd say, take a break from it, and once you're ready, try to rediscover animation. What got you into animation? Maybe you could start there. And if you have video recording software which records whatever is on your phone screen and/or monitor, then maybe you could record some key scenes from a cartoon/movie/anime whose animations have inspired you. Or if not even just collecting the links to all those scenes can do. Maybe you got fascinated when you saw the drawings that're done, the key poses, secondary n tertiary poses (not sure if I got the terms right, but oh well). Maybe you liked how they looked together and got interested. Hell, maybe whatever that motivates you is outside the field of animation. Point being, try going back to that source of motivation. If it's art, maybe you can print those artworks and put it up your wall (posters would be better, but hey, whatever gets u going ) Hope this helps✌🏽

Would there be more incentive as its more about streaming numbers?