Sometimes, I would stay alone in my dormitory, concentrating on my animation production. I would make the details of the animation according to some ideas in my mind, including the movements of the characters or the design of the scenes. Sometimes after I finished them, no matter how many times I modified them, I would feel that there was something wrong.
After the animation production was finished one day, I was going to go out for a walk. I observed the people by the river, I watched their movements, I watched their movements and fell into thinking. Suddenly I understood why the animation I made always looked wrong, because that was the movement I thought of in my mind, not necessarily the posture that people would appear in life. Every step of a person’s movement is controlled by a potential switch. Their movements will not suddenly jump from one step to or even fast forward to another step. My animation ignores these details, and the movements they make do not match the real movements. This is why my brain will give me feedback that I feel wrong after watching what I made.
Animation is a way of recording. It reproduces the creator’s memory on the screen, but memory alone is not enough. We need a lot, even a huge amount of references. If you blindly hide in your own world to create, you can only end up with an animation that you appreciate. We need to have more contact with the real world and record the details of life rather than the fictional content in our minds. Only by taking this step can we become a qualified animator.