I Learned Animation with No Experience

a person with no animation experience that is me actually create an animation movie i'm not sure but i just signed up for a contest online and i have eight days to make one actually seven because i spent the first day trying to at least understand how everything works unsuccessfully 7 am day 2. i woke up brushed my teeth had breakfast and i was excited to start all right let's do this the second day i actually decided to start practicing drawing the first lines sounds obvious but the first step of animation is drawing i learned this a while ago if you want to draw anything you need to break down the subject into simple shapes and after that you can start worrying about the details and i thought i found a simple subject but i couldn't do it i hate circles they are so freaking hard i needed to find an easier subject my girlfriend left this morning which means it's just me my laptop my beautiful little sweet cat i think i'm gonna draw you and i actually decided to practice for a while using my cat first step taking a picture of cookie his name is cookie then i broke down his body into shapes not literally and then i added details and it turned out good but it took me hours to get to this point now to animate cookie i should draw him again 24 times in slightly different positions and to create a single second of a minute movie and that is the moment i realized i will never make it that way i had to use animatic which always consists in a series of images played in a sequence but instead of drawing 24 frames each second each frame will last a few seconds it's beautiful it's way faster and it's literally the only way i can finish my moving time i practice a bit more and after two hours my masterpiece was completed i spent two hours for a four seconds animation it looks great it's beautiful my mother called me again asking me what i was doing i told her i drew a ball anyways i kept working a living until i couldn't work anymore and then i fell asleep on my table a ball hey look at him he has a ball hey kid come here let's play sure i told you not to let him play come on kid go away you're so bad [Music] move and we'll keep the ball i woke up at 3 am and when i realized what it was and what time it was i decided to go to bed 7 00 am six days left i woke up running washed my face and i ate this the next thing i want to learn is giving more emotions to my characters and i probably can achieve that by drawing actual eyes instead of dots so then i tried a few styles somewhere too simple somewhere way too complicated but you can always find the perfect one for your characters i kept working on the movie for three hours straight as if my pants were glued to the chair and honestly i was starting to feel the pressure i will never step in a football field ever again [Music] mom anyone yes i love this game you know i promised myself i wasn't gonna order junk food this year and i've been actually keeping a healthy lifestyle by working out and cooking everything by myself but i really didn't have time today it's already 3 p.m and if i want to finish the contest on time i need to be so much faster than this and then i got a call from the vet you reminded me that i had an appointment for cookie that i completely forgot about i left home cookie was unhappy that cookie was even less happy home my two days animation experience taught me something already animation has the power to make time fly it's already dark outside giving noise anyways i worked a living in and i watched an animation tutorial while working out which means i worked out really bad kept working and then at midnight i stopped i promised myself to go to bed no later than 12 pm this year and i need to maintain that habit 7am 5 days left i washed my face i'm not even sure if i had breakfast my drawings look like if a four-year-old kid tried to sharp a pencil against the sheet i just came up with that i'm joking i think it's pretty cool but i need a bit of realism and so i decided to add a gray scale to my drawings starting from this ice cream i guess and even at the shadows at the end i was pretty proud of it then i started working on my movie once again because i knew i was terribly late five days is nothing to create what i had in mind after a while my mom called me but i felt like i didn't have time and i was probably right [Music] she doesn't get it i feel like nobody gets it when i'm in these situations and i need to work hard and i always end up feeling dumb i i think i'm the only one who realizes that i didn't work out i didn't eat well and honestly nothing mattered i just wanted to work on the movie but i really felt bad for this guy gigabyte sent me this laptop which is absolutely great and in return i promise i will deliver a great animation work problem is i didn't even know if i could do it and so to pay respect i tried to draw it i know basically nothing about pcs but this is insane that is the most beautiful display i've ever seen on a laptop insane gpu and it's equipped with a 12th gen intel processor so basically if you're a content creator and you're looking for a really cool laptop this one is for you then at 3 am i realized it was 3 am and so i went to bed 11 am four days left i was feeling down but music fixes problems i drew a day and i felt great i was making progress and i was also kinda starting to like my drawings and the next morning my girlfriend was gonna come back which is great because i was starting to feel lonely i guess at 10pm i even found the time to watch a movie then i realized i literally missed dinner [Applause] you've been playing all day you need to stop come on mom only one more no you need to stop now it's a beautiful day go out hey come play with us i'm not sure guys i don't feel really well come on we're gonna wait for you there three days left to the deadline i ate maybe i immediately started doing a bunch of stuff and that's exactly what i had to do when my girlfriend arrived i was genuinely full of happiness but time that's what i didn't have then i decided to go anyways and we ended up fighting because i mean i was there but i wasn't really there then she told me i was obsessed and you know what i did i went back to my pc basically proving she was right you know what i didn't want to do anything i stopped caring about the contest about animation about anything in general i just wanted to play a football game on my phone i used to love doing this when i was a kid and now i felt like i jumped back there playing a game alone after 17 years hmm maybe that would be actually fun i think i'm gonna go hey guys i'm here can i play i'm sorry we already got the whole team all right no worries guys maybe i don't need anyone else i can play by myself two days left i woke up late and the house was empty kind of i felt really bad i didn't take a shower in three days and this is gonna be the fourth and then i saw this i understand how you feel i don't wanna fight i sent her a message and then i also called my mother to let her know that i was still alive maybe it's not that the others don't get how i feel maybe they were just trying to make sure i didn't get too obsessed wish i did and so with two days left i gave up on the contest but i'm still finishing the movie and i'm gonna show you the final result i'm not giving up on that and a friend of mine who's an actual monster drawing is gonna help me out doing it and just like that i finally had time to do absolutely nothing hey kid here's your ball i'm sorry for my friends sometimes they're asymmetrical you keep practicing and you'll be great one day actually come with me let's go play it's good to see you we're sorry for the last time today we are going to play all day in this moment i realized something i was happy but not only because it was with my girlfriend this experience taught me something way bigger than animation and only now i actually get it there is a person that is always there for you and i mean we should respect this person but we just tend to forget that this crazy thought that i had while washing my hands is that all our lives even if we are alone sometimes we are actually never really lonely come on mike let's go you

Channel: Mike Shake

Views: 3,320,378

Keywords: mike shake, Ryan Trahan, Surviving, Overnight

Id: ftwysv8-gx8

Length: 8min 27sec (507 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 27 2022