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Animation Teacher In most art universities in China, there are many high-level requirements to become a teacher or college staff. But there are other kinds of opportunities:Art education blogger. Most of them are concept designers, or art designers, animators. Devices like ipad are very popular today, it leads a great number of people, who are…

I used to be a freelance illustrator for about two years. After graduation, I’m also considering back to working as a freelancer. Unlike before, my creative space has improved even more by learning animation. It’s also an advantage over other freelancers. After research, I think it’s okay to try posting your work on YouTube, tiktok,…

Fortunately, I tried 2 ways in this exercise as 2d and stop motion. When you try to do one thing in different methods, you learn more. I choosed Bhavna’s oc in this exercise. He is a crazy fan of a celebrity, I tried to react like he is waiting across the road for a perfect…

What could be more embarrassing than recorded by someone? Record yourself. But, it is a powerful method that can let you get correct and suitable reference, immediately.

I never know what is “vine” before so when Christina sent us some references I just can‘t help myself and watched them all. It is a little similar to the inside me, unreasonable, wired and fun! When I animated other exercise with Procreate, there’s no layer, or track, to use. But in Tvpaint, track is…

First I would like to thank Sharon in this practice. She did a great job as a partner and gave me many ideas and help. Thank you Sharon! In this exercise Sharon said “Hello, my name is Sharon, I come from Democratic Republic of the Congo! I like playing sports” in Fench. We had each…

It was great to see Bianca again. We had a lecture about storyboarding this time and it was very useful, especially the examples about different shots and how to use them to show your narratives. At the end of the class we had a 30-minutes exercise to make a quick storyboard of a short script,…

It is definite my honor to have this collaboration with Victor. He is an animator with a strong personal style. I once saw his work at the one-minute animation screening and was deeply impressed by the bright colors, strong contrasts, sharp lines, and flat graphic style. It is a great pleasure to be part of…

It’s the first time I animate on 3D software. Here are some new skills I think very useful: 1. After transform, delete object’s history (edit-delete-all by type-history) 2. Shift+left click list, will select all objects in the list 3. Graphic editor (blank- windows- animation editor- graphic editor) 4. select all controllar with no other objects:…

My presentation is about a Chinese stop motion animation in 1979, the Story of Avanti, directed by Shanghai Animation Studio and director Qu Jianfang. About the question of Oscar prize, I did some research after presentation, here is the attached info: The Story of Avanti is an episodes animation, but at the beginning, it is…