Hi everybody, For me, the Blocking phase is the crucial part of the development of a shot. In that stage, you will have to mark all the necessary information of timing and posing so your director will perfectly understand the acting decisions you are going to take […]

Hi everybody, To do a Rough Blocking, it only takes few steps but, from my point of view, it is the most important phase. Once an animator told me : "The aim of the rough blocking is […]

Hi everybody, As they often say : "Prevention is better than cure". That's why when it comes to start a drawing, In addition to good planning, It is convenient to have a good technical layout. Often I had to rethink a blocking […]

Hi everybody, On a day-to-day of an animator we usually loose a lot of time with repetitive and heavy tasks which increase the factor of human error but we often forgot an important fact: We work with computers that can do those […]

Hi everybody, The nine old men used to say "Pass over half of your time planning and encouraging the other half". I am aware that everyone will have their own methodology when planning, but I think that even if we use different tools, […]

Hi everybody, When you are creating a shot, the fact skipping a stage may cause delays and loss of energy. Every animator has his own nomenclature but, as far as I could observed, all follow the same […]