Do animators Use Camera Angles to Hide Animation Flaws?

Now thats a Question that I really liked...

http://www.animationtipsandtricks.com/2011/02/do-animators-use-camera-angles-to-hide.html

Stretching a Pose?

I found This Tip On Alyssa Lee's Blog I really loved it so also wanted it to share it over here...

When exaggerating/stretching a pose:

Put less stretch into “solid” parts of the body, such as the head or hands) and more stretch into the skinnier/elongated parts of the body (such as an arm or neck). This will read better in motion as a stretch rather than a deformation.

Pendulum Animation WorkFlow!!

Hey Guys!! I thought I will share with u'll the Method That I used to animate my Pendulum. This method woks Only for the Settle and not for the Starting part.. and may not Work on body... Its Like It will not work in 9 out of 10 Cases... I just found it useful in this.. But I don't use this method when I am animate Body Mechanics..I think this methods is not too helpfull when used on Body mechanics..

So wht I did was I first Created my Extremes ( The Height pose's in the settle) . Depends on the number of swing your pendulum makes when it settles... I had around 8 maybe... So lets Think we have done our 8 swings.....

Then I just select the Controls and Flat the Tangent... Then Select the Bottom three controller Leaving the top one.. and move the keys two frames ahead.. and then De-select everything and select the Bottom two controls and move the frame again two frames ahead.. Again de-select and then Select the last controller in the bottom and move the Keys two frames ahead again.. ( Just move the frames ahead of just the settle part in the animation...I mean the frames of the settle part in the Pendulum animation... I left the rest the same).. and then Play ur Animation and see the magic...

I am sorry abt my English if I'm not able to  make This clear enough.. But just Mail me anytime if u need anymore help with it.. anuj.animator@yahoo.com..

Happy Animating.. I hope this helps u..

and here's the Final Pass of my animation..

Animation Tip

You can hold K and drag in view-port to scrub without being On the Time Line.

Animation Tip

You can manually Just key the Translate, Rotate , or scale Attribute by pressing "Shift W" or "Shift E" or "shift R" respectively..

Animation Tip For posing.

Important Point I learn't Today.." Always rotate Fk spline joints of the body ( Chest, stomach and hips) together and get the pose as close as you can.Only after you can't get it any Better should you rotate the individual spine joints.This helps prevents the strange independent rib-cage Movement so common in beginning animator's Work."...I used to rotate independently wasted two hours correcting them once...at last had to delete the pose and re-pose them...Just learn't this point yesterday from How to cheat in maya..and found that I made that mistake in my blocking and found what happens when we try to breakdown that pose with this mistake...Makes me crazy..

Yayyyy!!! Got my self Some Books...

Long-time no post...I am really lazy in posting...currently working on some shots...My bugs bunny shot really driving me Crazy. But took a break and started to create a small Diving shot for the 11 second Club Mini-challenge. So that i could get myself a break. Well back to the original Topic. I am thinking of also posting some Tips and Tricks that I am learning from Eager Beaver, Books etc...I got myself some book..."How to cheat in Maya 2012" and "What Every Body is Saying - Joe Navarro "..These are awesome book...If haven't got it get it...How to cheat in Maya consists of some special trips, tricks collected by animators for us...I will posting some Tips here In future as I learn them and Use them...And What Every Body is saying is a book by an Ex-FBI agent. He tells about the non-verbal action of people. How the body tells what actually the person is feeling feels. Almost every action our body does tell something. Our body always tell the truth even if lie. So bye for now. Catch you later….