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So this is

I'm just sort of an introductory video in case anyone

Going through these

Foundational

Animation X courses is interested about

Who it is that's talking about these ideas and Concepts and

Impart helped on

Developed some of them

So my name is Dan Elder and I have been in animation going on 15 +

Fears are so now

I originally got my

Start at a service studio in Canada

Doing character animation

Coming out of school

And then slowly over

The course of a couple years and move through a couple different department

Before

I fell into effects animation

I always really liked

Effects

I had a bit of an aptitude for it I like

One of the things I really like about effects

Animation

Aside from

Being able to toss like a really nice

Polishing feel too cool

Seems and

Google moments and things like that

Is the abstract nature of it

You're not kitchen held into a character so much

You are animating through shapes

Emotion

And there's emotion in that but you're not directly trying to replicate

Acting

Like character acting or character emotion like you would

Out with the character

And I find that

Green

I was never the greatest at

Being able to do really fluid character animation

So I was able to sort of find a bit more of a home with

Affection

Over the course of

Many years and a lot of practice

And

A lot of just waking up every day and doing it then

I'm a studio setting I was able to

Got them decent out it but even now with

You know

Have 12 years experience in effects 15 total in animation but even now

12 years and affects son

I'm still trying to figure out things and learn things and break

Bad habits I've developed and stuff like that so

It's a process

And chances are if you're watching this foundational series

You're right.

The very

Beginning of your journey

Which is a very exciting

Time and place to be

As either a student or an artist or someone new

The industry so

You know absorb

What you can like a sponge but don't

What did this is obviously just my opinion but

Don't stay pigeonholed into any specific one area

Of art for the animation pipeline

I'm obviously I love and I'm passionate about effects but

Be open to

Different

Experiences and find out where you at

And if you come back around to effects then then that's great

And we would

Welcome all effects artists with open arms

I'm a professional side of things one of the reasons I really love the facts

Is because

Right now it is the only way to

Basically animate so that's like

Drawing frame by frame

In a professional setting

That isn't

Easily replicated

By any kind of 3D

Program

Reproach

Now there are

VFX artists

For sure

Tattoo amazing jobs on

Live action movies

And they're obviously like Houdini artists and

People who are really familiar with particle emitters and stuff

And do a lot of cool things for video games

Video game cinematics

Well that kind of stuff but

2D effects is is is very design-oriented and stylized

So

Programs that try to replicate it

They can never do it to a degree where it is visually satisfying enough that

It's considered

It's considered computers have been considered to it

Have evolved

You know what kind of pasta

That is

Kind of the case to a certain degree like obviously

Now in the year 2022

We see quite a few 3D movies and

Fewer and fewer

Traditional 2D approaches to production

And there's a lot of hybrid approaches

However

If x is special and unique in that some of these Productions go strictly with

2D approach

And that's not just

Or Productions

In studios like cartoons and animations

I've come across it

In all different kinds of setting

Commercial

Video games

Just regular cinematics all of them

Being specialized in 2D effects and be

A very filling and

Lucrative

Profession

If you are patient enough

It develop your your skills to a level

Where people

Want to argue

And that'll starts with

Picking the first couple of steps which

If you're hearing your listening to this that would be on digital series

ISO

I've done my best to try to

Drop some

Little nuggets of Truth in

Hopefully have you develop your skills faster and quicker

Then someone who would be stumbling across this information

I'm either just through happenstance or

By trying to dig around on the internet so

I think you're in the right place

I enjoyed the lessons

And hopefully

In a couple years I can

Look forward to maybe

Talking to you and finding out how your your journey went and and if it started with these lessons

That would warm my heart

Sol

Thank you for

Listen to this end

I hope these lessons on scratch here

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