@@emmanuelgoodluck9013 thanks Howard killing it! Just a quick question my little brother is studying animation at the moment at uni. He wants to invest in a great monitor for animation. Which do you think is the best in 2021-2020
Really great songs can turn a bad mood completely around. And that can avalanche into a good day, which can avalanche into a good week, which can turn into a good month, which can turn into a good season. Your videos are like a really good song. Always such a huge boost of inspiration and just a general great source of good feeling.
I think one very important thing about build a productive routine its like being doing a diet... have one or a couple of cheat days. You need to experience things and live for create (and animate, its important the observation, go for a walk and have a morning to life drawing just sitting atthe park its priceless) and being happy keep you focus. Also have a hobby, your work cannot be your hobby, if your work is drawing and it was your hobby before a job, start learning and do something else, like play an instrument or sports. If you can follow this for a month or two, it becomes a routine so i recommend move those cheat days, or at least thats work better for me that always the same (im working from home too and it can be a real nightmare sometimes). I really appreciate your advises and your time sharing all this with us. Keep enjoying creating.
I love the personal growth aspect you have in all these videos! I literally end up getting awesome life advice in corresponds with these great animation tips ;)
Woah. Those new graphics look amazing. It feels as if there’s an increase in quality with each new video you publish. As for tips, exercising and being outside is my go-to so I can hustle and grind in the studio that is my bedroom.
I know this idea isn't directly related to animating, but if possible could you make a video all about editing like sound, camera scenery, (etc.) Nice video 👍!
out of experience. I do most of my assignments on weekends, not because I don't have time during the week. but because I get better ideas and animating is way easier. so sleep helps alot
All of the things you talked about are really relevant, great informative video. I found the commute observation particularly pertinent, since I spend up to two hours travelling to and from school every day. Luckily I can still read and listen to music on the bus.
What’s really crazy is that I almost only ever reach my flow state while I’m animating. That’s really interesting to me because I don’t even reach the flow state when I’m drawing an art piece most of the time.
These are great tips, but probably won't help me on my work station. However, it did given me an idea, still trying to figure out the rest of my problem. My biggest problem is where I am working at, and how I am not comfortable, it is cause of my desk and chair.... the desk is too low for my taste now, as for the chair it is a dinner chair. I'm hoping to save up for a new desk, or make my own that allows me to stand up and more, like those awesome standing desk! My other issue is lacking huge amount of exercise ... I am saving up for a treadmill so I can at least exercise indoors if it is too hot and cold for me. But either way, this doesn't stop me from working, even tho it is highly uncomfortable.
only thing I can think of is maybe propping something under the legs of your desk? It's a temporary solution but it might make things bearable until you can get an adjustable standing desk. All the best!
@@HowardWimshurst I was thinking that for a long while, just don't know how to do that since my desk weighs a ton. But thanks for the advice. c: Also thanks!
Im changing my career path from games development back into 2D animation. Thank you for showing me the ropes many years ago (2007). Your videos are a great help :P
@@HowardWimshurst Im going to be honest here, in 2007 when you said to me you were making a movie I thought you were making some kind of live action movie. Then you showed me your skateboarding animation on Macromedia Flash 2004 and you also taught me the basics of animation xD ty man, I just need a lot of practice and have been looking into OpenToonz.
At the moment im in the learning phase. Lots of video tutorials and practice. But I know what you mean. Setting aside time to just animate and work. When i used to have Moho, before my computer reset and i lost it.... I made clips and clips. I will get to that point again. Im learning blender because I lost Moho. And I always wanted to try out 3d animation too.
I say it’s crazy because in this day and age, a lot of people like to get latest phones on their release date, but you are one of the few people I’ve seen that hasn’t given in to the hype of buying the latest thousand dollar phones. Major props for that
Stretching at least once every hour is extremely important. If you work too hard in one position for too long you'll hurt your body and wont be able to work as much as you once did. Speaking from experience.
Yes to all this, good advice. Incidently I have come to all of these conclusions before which goes to show how universal and essential they are. Just wish I had a bathroom in my building.😶
yes! I really like that new video he came out with and it shows that his channel is growing and improving. Him and I have talked with each other before. He's a great guy and has my full support!
I feel like you'd be into James Clear's Atomic Habits. It did me some real good and I'd highly recommended it based on some of the books you've mentioned before (I sound like a browser algorithm)
You should try toon boom. I use it and if you like Adobe animate, then you'll LOVE toon boom harmony! Once you figure out some of the tools you'll animate like a pro on there. (And you already animate like a pro so you'll be reallly good at it.) 🤗🙂
When you first started working from home did you struggle to get yourself up in the morning? I've been struggling with it, its easier to get up when I know I have my college classes or internship to attend.
i've never been a morning person. I can force myself to get up early if I really need to, but it is a struggle. I gain momentum through the day and then at night I hit my most productive focussed hours. I want to hold onto that productive period as long as possible which is what sets up the perpetual problem of waking up late! I don't let it get out of hand though. If you're talking about being in a depressive kind of state, that I have thankfully never experienced.
Could you maybe do a tutorial on how to draw fabric for a later video? It’s something that I have a very hard time with and I have no doubt that other beginners do too.
Howard, I love your videos and this one was really useful, but in person you seem stiff man, like, I feel that you're reading from a written essay behind the camera (Im sure you're not, but it feels that way). I know you try to make the videos look professional and stuff, but I feel like I'm in a business meeting about productivity (in a negative way), so I don't know, loosen it up? I think the problem is in the camera, you're too still, maybe try removing the camera and let the voice do the job. And if with the camera you want to reinforce the professional look (you know, watching who is talking to you, having "eye contact"), maybe do it with more dynamism, look at movies for example, characters when talking are often moving, because being in the same environment can be boring and it also could be symbolically cohesive with what's happening in the conversation and so so so... Well, maybe try out some of that, too much trouble with the microphone to go outside? Make interesting shots from inside you're house, or garden, studio, whatever. Besides the animation bits and little montages you show, the video (visual part) is feeling kinda stagnant. That's all, hope it's useful and if something doesn't make much sense sorry, I'm writing this at 3 am, kisses and greetings from Argentina capo
@@marikitanimation6791 could be, but I'm talking about keeping interest between lines and tips. Plus I never talked about his way if being in a negative way, just the way he uses the facecam
Thank you very much for the advice! You were spot on, lately I have been reading from a little teleprompter - I do this mainly to save time in editing. I can speak unscripted without a teleprompter but it just takes a lot of editing time because I stumble over what I say - then I need to scour through every second of it and make so many cuts to make it work then people ask why I'm cutting so much. It's a tricky weigh up between getting a good quantity of videos out there and getting few videos out there but of high quality. But yeah I really appreciate the advice and i think I will try and set up a wider variety of angles to keep it fresh. Audio and lighting are constant problems -I use 5 big plug-in lights in total + natural light from the window (the wide angle lens I use is a dark lens with a small aperture, it needs a lot of light). Right now there are only two rooms in the house which are the right habitat for shooting video. I have tried taking the camera down to the park and it is a goddamned nightmare. I'm not kidding when I say that there is a constant rotation of dogs who interrupt the session every 3 minutes. I can barely get a few sentences out before a dog either barks and ruins the audio or comes over to investigate my balls then the dog walker also comes into the frame, apologies and starts up a conversation, all while the camera is rolling taking up memory and battery, i gotta explain to the dog walker what i'm doing in the park alone with a camera trained on me. It's awkward and embarrassing and stressful. Harder than you'd expect. Also for 3/4 of the year it is just too wet outside to shoot video. Also I am fine with filming myself when I am alone but I cannot do it if people are walking past. I just cannot. Also I have tried things where I'm outside in a park talking and... It just doesn't make a lot of sense. It isn't relevant to the subject matter i will be talking about. You would be scratching your head asking "why is he in a park?" when i'm talking about some animation technique. It makes sense that i am in the studio at my desk with a cintiq behind me. It's not always the case but a lot of the time it is. Yeah it's tough and I think to myself... is it really worth it? Like I can get the information across to you just fine from my room without facing all those logistical problems. And you understand it, as long as you have the attention span to listen to me for 15 minutes without some wacky logan-paul-style meme editing. As a part-time youtuber I gotta weigh up if the juice is worth the squeeze. Not trying to make excuses, i will give it a go, but maybe now you understand a little more of the realistic implications of making videos. I know this is a total rambling mess at this point, I just gotta think these things outloud.
@@HowardWimshurst nono, I understand, plus I'm not a RUclipsr nor anything like that so thanks for the... Enlightenment. Rambling about things like this is good though, I always think better when talking out loud. Let me see, maybe use the blue mandala kinda thing you have there as a background so it pops out more with the animation software, maybe check out how some part-time RUclipsrs manage their videos (off the top of my head i'd say bam animation and love life drawing)
/make sure to get a solid 8 hours a sleep each night by the same time /me crying because I get like 6 and half during working days (after a shift of 16 hours XD)
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Remember to check out all the links in the description! Lots of useful stuff in there like my animator's checklist you can download for free!
Howard Wimshurst I love ❤️ your stuff and animation is really hard keep up the good work 😍🥰🥰🥰 I’ll always support what you do 🥰🥰😍🥰😘😍
@@emmanuelgoodluck9013 thanks Howard killing it! Just a quick question my little brother is studying animation at the moment at uni. He wants to invest in a great monitor for animation. Which do you think is the best in 2021-2020
Really great songs can turn a bad mood completely around. And that can avalanche into a good day, which can avalanche into a good week, which can turn into a good month, which can turn into a good season.
Your videos are like a really good song. Always such a huge boost of inspiration and just a general great source of good feeling.
thank you so much and i totally agree about the music!
I think one very important thing about build a productive routine its like being doing a diet... have one or a couple of cheat days. You need to experience things and live for create (and animate, its important the observation, go for a walk and have a morning to life drawing just sitting atthe park its priceless) and being happy keep you focus. Also have a hobby, your work cannot be your hobby, if your work is drawing and it was your hobby before a job, start learning and do something else, like play an instrument or sports. If you can follow this for a month or two, it becomes a routine so i recommend move those cheat days, or at least thats work better for me that always the same (im working from home too and it can be a real nightmare sometimes). I really appreciate your advises and your time sharing all this with us. Keep enjoying creating.
I love the personal growth aspect you have in all these videos! I literally end up getting awesome life advice in corresponds with these great animation tips ;)
Woah. Those new graphics look amazing. It feels as if there’s an increase in quality with each new video you publish. As for tips, exercising and being outside is my go-to so I can hustle and grind in the studio that is my bedroom.
Thank you M.G!! Yes exercise is important!
Dude, your videos have served me a lot. I'm starting in the animation. Every video you make motivates me more to follow, greetings from Mexico
Making lists and cleaning up my space would help a lot I think
Congratulations on 200k subs that’s epic for an animation channel that gives me much respect ✊🏾 and motivation
I know this idea isn't directly related to animating, but if possible could you make a video all about editing like sound, camera scenery, (etc.) Nice video 👍!
out of experience. I do most of my assignments on weekends, not because I don't have time during the week. but because I get better ideas and animating is way easier.
so sleep helps alot
All of the things you talked about are really relevant, great informative video. I found the commute observation particularly pertinent, since I spend up to two hours travelling to and from school every day. Luckily I can still read and listen to music on the bus.
i feel for you man, that's a long commute. And you are wise to use that time reading and listening! Thanks for the comment!
What’s really crazy is that I almost only ever reach my flow state while I’m animating. That’s really interesting to me because I don’t even reach the flow state when I’m drawing an art piece most of the time.
Prioritization is something I learned recently.
Dude your videos are amazing. Aspiring animator here! You give great tips!
Getting enough sleep is definitely an important one I reckon. Great video Howard!
A lot can be learnt from your videos. Very informative for beginner animator like me. Nice video. 👍💕
Glad to hear that!
I found this both informative and motivational. Thanks Howard
Your channel teaches us so much. Your content is really inspiring. Pls pls never stop posting videos on RUclips,we really need you🙏🙏🙂😊
These are great tips, but probably won't help me on my work station. However, it did given me an idea, still trying to figure out the rest of my problem.
My biggest problem is where I am working at, and how I am not comfortable, it is cause of my desk and chair.... the desk is too low for my taste now, as for the chair it is a dinner chair. I'm hoping to save up for a new desk, or make my own that allows me to stand up and more, like those awesome standing desk!
My other issue is lacking huge amount of exercise ... I am saving up for a treadmill so I can at least exercise indoors if it is too hot and cold for me. But either way, this doesn't stop me from working, even tho it is highly uncomfortable.
only thing I can think of is maybe propping something under the legs of your desk? It's a temporary solution but it might make things bearable until you can get an adjustable standing desk. All the best!
@@HowardWimshurst I was thinking that for a long while, just don't know how to do that since my desk weighs a ton. But thanks for the advice. c: Also thanks!
Im changing my career path from games development back into 2D animation. Thank you for showing me the ropes many years ago (2007).
Your videos are a great help :P
2007!? really? Don't you mean 2017?
@@HowardWimshurst Im going to be honest here, in 2007 when you said to me you were making a movie I thought you were making some kind of live action movie. Then you showed me your skateboarding animation on Macromedia Flash 2004 and you also taught me the basics of animation xD
ty man, I just need a lot of practice and have been looking into OpenToonz.
At the moment im in the learning phase. Lots of video tutorials and practice. But I know what you mean. Setting aside time to just animate and work. When i used to have Moho, before my computer reset and i lost it.... I made clips and clips. I will get to that point again.
Im learning blender because I lost Moho. And I always wanted to try out 3d animation too.
The fact that this man is rocking a cracked, what I can only assume is an iPhone SE, is just crazy. Very epic video btw
hahaha is it crazy? Yes I really should get that crack fixed!!
I say it’s crazy because in this day and age, a lot of people like to get latest phones on their release date, but you are one of the few people I’ve seen that hasn’t given in to the hype of buying the latest thousand dollar phones. Major props for that
I hope I can be like you someday
Thanks for the advice. I'm thinking of someday replacing my Huion H420 tablet. Which pen tablet do you suggest I get that's in the fifty dollar range?
I would recommend this one! geni.us/LLYv
Ahh this is just what I needed! Thank you now I have some info on how to focus more
Stretching at least once every hour is extremely important. If you work too hard in one position for too long you'll hurt your body and wont be able to work as much as you once did. Speaking from experience.
Yes to all this, good advice. Incidently I have come to all of these conclusions before which goes to show how universal and essential they are. Just wish I had a bathroom in my building.😶
I think it's crazy that someone with so much skill and talent isn't already working for Pixar or Disney.
Did you see NobleFrugal Studio's vids on animation? I know they were for beginners but they were amazing
yes! I really like that new video he came out with and it shows that his channel is growing and improving. Him and I have talked with each other before. He's a great guy and has my full support!
7:07 music pls?
I feel like you'd be into James Clear's Atomic Habits. It did me some real good and I'd highly recommended it based on some of the books you've mentioned before (I sound like a browser algorithm)
Gah I literally needed this right here and now thank youu
Very good tips! Thanks!
Fahrenheit 451... Very classic!
You should try toon boom. I use it and if you like Adobe animate, then you'll LOVE toon boom harmony! Once you figure out some of the tools you'll animate like a pro on there. (And you already animate like a pro so you'll be reallly good at it.) 🤗🙂
I have tried it. I don't like it!
I use TVPaint.
When you first started working from home did you struggle to get yourself up in the morning? I've been struggling with it, its easier to get up when I know I have my college classes or internship to attend.
i've never been a morning person. I can force myself to get up early if I really need to, but it is a struggle. I gain momentum through the day and then at night I hit my most productive focussed hours. I want to hold onto that productive period as long as possible which is what sets up the perpetual problem of waking up late! I don't let it get out of hand though.
If you're talking about being in a depressive kind of state, that I have thankfully never experienced.
I cant get the link to the pdf to load
Show us your set up 😁😁
What software do you use to put all your animations and sound effects together? Is it adobe?
Yesss! New video💙💙💙🖤🖤🖤
Could you maybe do a tutorial on how to draw fabric for a later video? It’s something that I have a very hard time with and I have no doubt that other beginners do too.
thank you for the suggestion! I have actually made a draft of a script and now I need to develop it some more
Awesome
Which software is this ?
What program do you recommend for classic animation?
I believe he's been using tv paint pro 11
yes TVPaint
Its hard to have 0 distractions with 2 kids, but I like to clean my entire house before I dig in. Solid video though.
Yaaasss, I love ypur vidsos Keep it up!
Wonderful
I want one of your gloves
What kind of laptop would you recommend for animation softwares like toonboom harmony?
this one looks like good value for money. It has 8GB of RAM and Windows 10 (Amazon Affiliate link) geni.us/hhSgT
Found your channel today subbed!
hey what program was that ? to animate
nvm tvpaint
ive never been this early to any video
How olds r u?
Howard, I love your videos and this one was really useful, but in person you seem stiff man, like, I feel that you're reading from a written essay behind the camera (Im sure you're not, but it feels that way). I know you try to make the videos look professional and stuff, but I feel like I'm in a business meeting about productivity (in a negative way), so I don't know, loosen it up? I think the problem is in the camera, you're too still, maybe try removing the camera and let the voice do the job. And if with the camera you want to reinforce the professional look (you know, watching who is talking to you, having "eye contact"), maybe do it with more dynamism, look at movies for example, characters when talking are often moving, because being in the same environment can be boring and it also could be symbolically cohesive with what's happening in the conversation and so so so... Well, maybe try out some of that, too much trouble with the microphone to go outside? Make interesting shots from inside you're house, or garden, studio, whatever. Besides the animation bits and little montages you show, the video (visual part) is feeling kinda stagnant.
That's all, hope it's useful and if something doesn't make much sense sorry, I'm writing this at 3 am, kisses and greetings from Argentina capo
@@marikitanimation6791 could be, but I'm talking about keeping interest between lines and tips. Plus I never talked about his way if being in a negative way, just the way he uses the facecam
Thank you very much for the advice! You were spot on, lately I have been reading from a little teleprompter - I do this mainly to save time in editing. I can speak unscripted without a teleprompter but it just takes a lot of editing time because I stumble over what I say - then I need to scour through every second of it and make so many cuts to make it work then people ask why I'm cutting so much. It's a tricky weigh up between getting a good quantity of videos out there and getting few videos out there but of high quality.
But yeah I really appreciate the advice and i think I will try and set up a wider variety of angles to keep it fresh. Audio and lighting are constant problems -I use 5 big plug-in lights in total + natural light from the window (the wide angle lens I use is a dark lens with a small aperture, it needs a lot of light). Right now there are only two rooms in the house which are the right habitat for shooting video.
I have tried taking the camera down to the park and it is a goddamned nightmare. I'm not kidding when I say that there is a constant rotation of dogs who interrupt the session every 3 minutes. I can barely get a few sentences out before a dog either barks and ruins the audio or comes over to investigate my balls then the dog walker also comes into the frame, apologies and starts up a conversation, all while the camera is rolling taking up memory and battery, i gotta explain to the dog walker what i'm doing in the park alone with a camera trained on me. It's awkward and embarrassing and stressful. Harder than you'd expect. Also for 3/4 of the year it is just too wet outside to shoot video. Also I am fine with filming myself when I am alone but I cannot do it if people are walking past. I just cannot.
Also I have tried things where I'm outside in a park talking and... It just doesn't make a lot of sense. It isn't relevant to the subject matter i will be talking about. You would be scratching your head asking "why is he in a park?" when i'm talking about some animation technique. It makes sense that i am in the studio at my desk with a cintiq behind me. It's not always the case but a lot of the time it is.
Yeah it's tough and I think to myself... is it really worth it? Like I can get the information across to you just fine from my room without facing all those logistical problems. And you understand it, as long as you have the attention span to listen to me for 15 minutes without some wacky logan-paul-style meme editing. As a part-time youtuber I gotta weigh up if the juice is worth the squeeze. Not trying to make excuses, i will give it a go, but maybe now you understand a little more of the realistic implications of making videos.
I know this is a total rambling mess at this point, I just gotta think these things outloud.
@@HowardWimshurst nono, I understand, plus I'm not a RUclipsr nor anything like that so thanks for the... Enlightenment.
Rambling about things like this is good though, I always think better when talking out loud. Let me see, maybe use the blue mandala kinda thing you have there as a background so it pops out more with the animation software, maybe check out how some part-time RUclipsrs manage their videos (off the top of my head i'd say bam animation and love life drawing)
/make sure to get a solid 8 hours a sleep each night by the same time
/me crying because I get like 6 and half during working days (after a shift of 16 hours XD)
I’m just here for the thumbnail
Worked hard for that thumbnail, good to know it has an effect!
Third 3 🥰🥰😍😍😇😇🤣
I struggle with oversleeping ;C
me too
@@kinolenta2004 we both need a slap. Hahaha, it's so hard, let's do our best to get the hell up. XD
Not mentioned: do not become primary care giver for children or indigent senior citizens.
that task is probably more important than animating could ever be
cute
such a nice body
YES FIRST NOTICE ME SENPIE
noticed :D
Yes *^* now I'm worthy of smartness
Holy shit. You were noticed.
@@anzolomyer4584 I know !!! It's lit!!!!!