Points that I am confident in.
Inject yourself into your characters.
I think this is one that I tend to practise the most and know a lot about because it's very hard not to make characters that are of a completely different to myself when it comes to personality and sometimes, appearances.
In the examples left in the tips for students file helped me think about more Tim Burtin films and how the plots or the films and the signature features of the films really reflect his style and his dress sense.
Characters drive the stories and it's easier to come up with something you already know.
Points that I need to learn and work on.
Music as stimuli.
I think I need to learn more about imersing people into animations with the use of music and the use of non/diagetic sounds because a lot of my animations have little to no sound.
I think this tip is very useful to me to practice animating to music.
I have in the past used rotoscoping to some music videos but I don't think that it is the same thing, though I do think it helps me with timing.
I think elaborating in my sound module will help me with developing my sound skills.
Points that I was completely unaware of.
Bring the eyes to life.
This tip I knew nothing about; using the inverse shaded iris trick.
I'd never even heard of it.
I'd tried to research about it to learn more but everytime I had typed it online it just brought me back to the "tips for students" PDF ..
I've been looking through books like "The animators survival kit", "Timing for animation" and any such books relating to animation to see if I can get a referrence to them other than the quote in the PDF.
