brain spiel incoming: i love art so much oh my god (Patreon)

I just came across an animation on twitter and ive been looking at it and talking my little head off and rattling half sentences left and right for what feels like an hour at this point so now im gonna talk about it here and how its inspiring me and my animation and there is nothing you can do about it. Be warned this animation contains gay little furry dudes (ooo scary) and oh my god its some of the best character expression through nuanced poses and timings like graaahhfgh. heres the anim: https://twitter.com/Myauyenn/status/1772770377195790532 . its so good like hgghjhg. i generally struggle animating dialogue by relying too heavily on big poses to capitalize on strong starts of words which leaves my timing feeling flat and over acted. i wanna catch that liveliness that makes animations like the one im talking about now feel so..... alive, with the smallest of movements. i think my main issue with animating is my lack of confidence in using small gestures and having my characters poses stay still. like a kid whos trying really hard to act sad but doesnt quite get what nuance is yet. what im trying to say is that all of my characters i animate feel like little idiots. which is fine. thats really funny, but i want to be able to make people feel the characters i animate not externally being observed, but internally as parts of themselves. really complicated way of saying i want people to empathize with my animations. in the animation there is a lot of information conveyed in things as subtle as a bent finger or a tiny tilt of the head. i feel like those small movements sandwiched between the keyposes lends a really nice tempo and cadence to it all. Allowing myself to use still moments would make those bombastic moments feel more important due to the contrast. All my animation feels like the volume is cranked up to the max on everything so i really wanna trust myself to go for those quiet moments. a specific thing i like about the animation is how they use the head turning and tilting on each word rather than having the whole body move on each phrase. the confidence to use the little things to give information rather than relying on large actions is something i wanna learn to do. i love how the animation has perfect clarity in each micro action, where everything is deliberately set up to convey a playful, theatrical, teasy yet sensitive person. like the hand poses and how they have that playful timing which just sells the intention and theatrics of the character is so good like ouughh. currently all my anims feel chunky and bold which isnt a bad thing but i wanna learn how to infuse my animation with the same energy and life that they manage to get here.

i already talked about how much rewatching eva just once changed the way i go about composing scenes, and yet i still havnt watched a studio ghibli movie. i am gonna watch more films, especially animated ones. ive been neglecting my artist intake quota and im only now realizing how truly important observing art matters to making art. this isnt super related but there is a graph i think about a lot that i always come back to whenever i recognize how bad my art is in comparison to whats possible. the graph: https://twitter.com/TitusLunter/status/1143872735837347840 . im currently at the "artist low" point but im really exited to improve so i dont think i can quite call it a low.


lemme know if you like me posting train of thought overload stuff here cuz i get like this quite often. could do like a little blog type post about movies that really strike me and what i take away from them cuz i like talking about stuff like this art is so cool i love it. maybe i could try and watch a movie atleast once a week and talk about it here mayhaps perhappenstance. anyways its 2 am now i should sleep, goodnight honk mimimimi