tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3275154027288684412.post8945517437004946250..comments2008-12-30T09:46:09.452-05:00roconnornoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3275154027288684412.post-56700103833231569682008-12-30T09:46:00.000-05:002008-12-30T09:46:00.000-05:00<I>"Try giving this to a kid out of art school to figure out."</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Ha-ha-ha ... exactly.<BR/><BR/>I have trouble convincing my students <I>why</I> they even need to use hand-written paper exposure sheets . I just tell &#39;em to trust me on that one and they&#39;ll eventually get it . They all want to just sort of time out their drawings on a Flash timeline by trial &amp; error and hope for the best. I tell them, yeah whatever ... if that&#39;s the type of stuff you want to fritter away your time on, but if you want to learn classical animation from me then you&#39;re going to learn how to do it the classical way . (and save time because you&#39;ve planned out everything carefully on an X-sheet)<BR/><BR/>In Eric Goldberg&#39;s recent book &quot;Character Animation Crash Course&quot; he makes the case for continuing to use paper X-sheets and why they ought <I>not</I> to go the way of the Oxberry camera even in these days of Cintiq tablets and Flashy Toonboomery .<BR/><BR/>(and I write this as someone who loves my Cintiq tablet and I do not at all miss the tedium of painting cels or the hours spent shooting them on an Oxberry ... so I'm not coming from the perspective of an Animation Luddite. )David Netheryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09728364431363413760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3275154027288684412.post-73302066546505612682008-09-27T13:51:00.000-04:002008-09-27T13:51:00.000-04:00HI Richard! I get these "google alerts" when my name is mentioned- thus I saw your post about Gerard. Looks like you are doing well! Nice to hear about you!<BR/>sending a hug having to do with Troubles...<BR/>Suzan<BR/>suzanpitt@earthlink.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com