Yoshimi Yamagata Aoyagi

April Exclusive Diary: Kaneko

Added 2021-05-25 01:02:38 +0000 UTC

Hello, it’s Kaneko.

Here is my exclusive diary entry for April.

Towards the beginning of the month, I tweened dynamic shots, now I’m practicing walk and run cycles. I was assigned dynamic keyframes depicting the waist up for training. Thus far, I’ve always done training from the neck up, so that was difficult for me. Dynamic in-betweens are different from line-splitting (which involves depicting minimal movements between two already similar keyframes) because you have to draw such that movements or object shapes never feel out of place; At first, the shoulders in my in-betweens would get too close to the key-frames, I’d change body thickness, cause elbows to go out of alignment...ect, so the majority of them were sent back to me with corrections. It took me receiving 2 retakes before I got the okay. Compared to my first in-betweens though, the differences are apparent. I flipped through the corrections, comparing the drawings many times.

I can animate walking and running cycles from the front and sides without much trouble, but when we get into animating from a low angle or a birds-eye-view, I feel that sharp difficulty spike again (especially characters with a lot of lines.)

That’s how my training has been.

I feel like it’s been slowly getting hotter lately, but all we’ve had for the past few days is wind and rain. Regardless, I’m doing well as usual. Please take good care of yourselves, everyone.

May 19th, 2021.