Professional article review

For my professional article review blog post, i read an article called "The 28 principles of animation" (http://www.animationarena.com/principles-of-animation.html). In this article, it just talked about important things that you need to keep in mind while animating to make sure your animation looks clean, realistic, and professional. I will just summarize some of the principles, what they mean, and why they're important. One of the first principles it talks about is to consider weight. What this means, is when you are animating a character of some kind, you need to pay attention to the weight of the character and the pull of gravity. Everything has a certain amount of weight and each about of weight will "act and react accordingly". I think this is an important factor because you will easily lose the audiences attention if you have feathers falling like brinks or bricks falling like feathers. Another important principle of animation is to always include details. Details are super important to include in an animation because they make the animation look way more realistic, which in turn makes it look more professional. Also, people like to look at something, like your character, and see details which gives your character more.. character. Another good principle is Simplification. although detail is great and you want details, you defiantly do not want to overdo it with details because then it is just too over powering for the audience and takes away from the rest of the animation. And same with the background, you don't want to have to much going on in the background because just like the details, it will over power the rest of it and distract the watchers from whats important. Those were just a few of the main principles of animation that this article talked about. I think this article in general was helpful and important because for people who are just starting in animation, after reading that article, now know what to look for and make sure of when you are animating to make it look the best it can.