How to become an animator?

So! you want to become an animator!!

Its very simple..

To become an animator, you have to stick on 3 basics

1. observe
2. Capture it on paper
3. Move it to digital

These 3 basic steps will make you a professional animator. This is my way of learning animation. Learning wont make sense here right!. May i say my way of experiencing animation. yeah that sounds good!. You should experience everything in animation,

First of all!!

Keep in mind

Animation is nothing but a series of images or objects that creates an illusion of movement.

underline the word ILLUSION

its actually not moving but it seems like it is moving.. so you just want to create an illusion of movement.

To create an illusion of movement, that is animation. you must know this most important point

Frame rate for animation is 24 frames/sec, 29 frames/sec etc

Basically we use 24 frames/sec

so to create a one second animation. you need 24 drawings.

First try to capture the key poses(or) drawings in a movemnent. For example

In the above picture, the character is trying to lift the Weight. These three are the keyposes of the action. In every action, try to get this key poses out from your observation, Then we have to fill the inbetween poses. This type of creating an animation is called pose to pose animation.