The importance of minimizing detail in animation

[@STICKOMEDIA]

I can agree with you, nothing beats being ambitious, but sometimes it's better just to be simple

[@nootall]

I'm all for being ambitious, I just think that the ambition should be pointed in the appropriate direction. If your ambition is to become a better animator, I don't see how spending hours adding details is going to make someone reach that goal faster. In a way, simple animations are in fact more ambitious as they allow you to explore new things quicker.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

@@nootall good point 👍

[@headphones_guy777]

Quick disclaimer, I don't actually make pixel art all that often, I'm more used to digital art: But a good compromise that I found is to do the full animation with the basic, bare-bones sprite first (with maybe a bit of basic 1 tone shading for some depth), and now you have a finished "base" animation that you can make as detailed as you want if you so desire.

[@michaelwallace9461]

Yeah I like the way Adam Younis does it, focusing on the blocked out shapes first

[@laughinggas5060]

You enlightened me of my ignorance.

[@дигл_лайв]

Saw this video in my recommendations, thought it had 1.6 million views. Clicked, watched, and was like: Yeah, this makes sense for 1.6 million views, sure. And then I looked at the channel and it's at 700 subs, and I was: Hmm, thats weird, shouldn't it be ...? The video is at 1.6 k instead of a 1.6 million... Oh... Hope it will get more. The advice is solid. Although maybe there should've been a tiny remark that you still should do details sometimes, to practice animating and drawing details. Just like do that specifically when you want to train animating details instead of all the time. Or maybe you shouldn't attempt that at the start, who am I to tell.

[@nootall]

Thank you for the feedback. You're right, I think I should have better emphasized the fact that people should eventually learn to animate with detail at some point. However, I feel that in the early stages, when you don't know much about creating good motions, people should focus away from the details. The thing also with details is that you can practice them separately from animation (by working on a still drawing) - it's not so necessary that you practice them simultaneously.

[@wolfenstine6195]

Def my favorite animation channel

[@LifePlusPixelArtGames]

Your animation details look amazing. You have a really nice eye for pixel art detail ❤

[@bigweebtv6039]

Not really a fan of a black outline but I can see the point your making

[@Veigarciano]

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[@keepitshort4208]

It would be less time consuming to add details on an idle animation, but can make some changes to be simplistic when in motion if the motion is fast enough that detailing isn't required and also using smearing saves alot of time, at the end it depends on the character size on screen to know whether detailing actually matters

[@turtle6414]

you deserve more sups and views man ur vids are great

[@nootall]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Fax

[@Spirhack]

You actually have 1.66k followers with just 6 videos/ You doing great =)

[@Msta5321]

I have a problame of the exporting When i export gif i see that the video is crushing i don't know why is crushing is there's way to solved this ?

[@MKW-cg7xs]

Good advice

[@imcasey]

you deserve more soups!!

[@oOharoneOo]

Hello, i would like to contact you to discuss a paid animation if you accept customers. How could i reach out ? Thanks

[@nootall]

Hey there, I'd be happy what you have in mind! You can contact me on Twitter at twitter.com/Nootall_ or via email: [e-mail]

[@oOharoneOo]

@@nootall Lovely ! I emailed you :) , have a nice monday.

[@oOharoneOo]

@@nootall Hello hello, i still haven't gotten a reply back, i hope my email didn't end up in your spam or something.

[@neejaboy]

yea

[@yuzu-dev]

Super!!!

[@yoseph32kefelegn21]

I want to hire you

[@yoseph32kefelegn21]

For real

[@nootall]

For commissions, feel free to send me an email regarding details and I'll respond as soon as I can! nicolasnuttall.com/contact/

[@th4nkyoub3n]

Do you really need to have that outline?

[@nootall]

Do you need to? No. However, it's extremely easy to add and I enjoy how it looks :)

[@Ezayb]

you can't be that good

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

The more detailed versions look too cluttered as well. Too much going on.

[@nootall]

Well put!

[@Fosward]

Whats the app youre using ?

[@eraoferased9397]

aesprite

[@Fosward]

@@eraoferased9397 thank you bro