if anyone is interested in learning the 'basics' of animation, my first suggestion would be to do stopmotion, not 3d work.

stopmotion will teach you things like shooting on 2's and 3's. stopmo will teach you timing and motion alot bettet than keyframing a start pose and end pose in any 3d app. 3d apps can interpolate between them, but in stop motion, you do and its that valuable experience that you use to fix interpolation in 3d apps OR keyframing to make motion look real and not linear.

i started in stopmo so everything i do in 3d is bent on being assembled with a stopmo mindset than a 3d one. now that im in poser, and with the inport video background option, i rotoscope as much as possible when im looking for rl-motion.

Message edited on: 06/04/2005 10:50