Blocking

I knew I forgot something... my blog post for last week! I don't know if I made it in time, but this is supposed to be for the previous week (it's Sunday now).

Anyway, I thought I'd write a little bit about blocking. I've done a little bit of 3D animation on my own in the last couple years, but I never knew about blocking. It's a little hard to get used to, but it seems like it'll be very helpful in the long run. I can see that it allows for much finer control of frame-to-frame motion. When I would animate purely in spline, I would rely much more on letting the computer calculate the in-betweens. With blocking, I'm creating way more keyframes than I ever did before. That said, it'll definitely take some practice before I can time my animations more successfully while blocking.

That's all for now!