Questioning
When I was watching cartoons and anime when I was young, I was very attached to them, and I started to bring my notebooks and pens and draw my favorite characters in them, especially Japanese anime, and the reason is those big and shiny eyes that attract the viewers, and I have many favorite characters in the world of cartoons. And the anime from Spacetoon and MBC 3 channels.
And I was wondering, how do you make animations? Is it difficult or easy? Can one person do this or will I need an army of movers?
I started searching for a program
These questions kept running in my mind for years, but around 2008 I decided to go to the Internet, and search for a program for making cartoons and animation, and the program appeared in front of me and I downloaded it, the Internet was slow at the time, and it took me more than eight hours to download and I was watching The tape slowly fills up and I go to play, and I come back to watch it again and I come back to play and so on.
Download wasted?
Once the download is over, guess what happened? The electricity went out, and I was very frustrated and said to myself that my waiting was for nothing, and after hours of the interruption, the electricity came back and I ran towards the computer to check if the program was fully loaded, or did I have to re-download it, but what a surprise he was there, sitting waiting for someone to ask about him!
First experience in animation
I didn't wait until I read the user's instructions, and I immediately started tampering with the tools, but what seemed clear is that I knew what the drawing tools are, and I saw the "timeline" and there I realized that it was the frames or the "frames", and without diving into the terms, Let me tell you how it went.
In the painting or the first frame, I drew a circle "ball" and drew it again in the other frame, but farther from its previous place, and the steps were repeated in the other frames.
The moment awaited for decades
As soon as I finished the animation, I went and pressed the play button, and this was the moment I had always been waiting for when I was young, and I will finally watch the first two animations in my history.
After the scene began to move, my heart raced, and I saw that the ball I drew was moving, really moving, as if it were alive!
It was an unforgettable moment, because I knew I held the trigger keys and I knew it was easier than it was, all I had to do, was just draw, over and over, until the characters I created came to life, that's all.
My lifestyle changed because of it
Since then, I have been sitting day and night at the computer designing anime and drawing characters and animate them, and I was overjoyed, as I was able to create my own anime, just like on TV.
I was the first to wake up and the last to sleep in the house, not only me, but my brothers joined me in the animation, and everyone is designing the animation in turn, and we dub it at home, and we compete among ourselves.
I can't watch anime anymore
It is true that I was very happy with what I achieved, but the side effects of animation appeared after years, as you know that my experience in animation increased, so I began to notice that I do not enjoy watching anime.
Because my mind understands how to animate, and when I watch clips from the anime, my brain starts calculating the number of frames used, and when the character will move, and I even calculate what the quality of the animation is in the scenes, and predict whether the characters will move one movement or not.
In short, I began to find it very difficult to go back as "watching" as I was, and this is tiring, as my brain cannot watch silently, but I still love watching anime every time I find the time for it.
Frankly, it was unforgettable memories, when I remember those beautiful days, when I was passionate about moving and as if I had entered a magical world that I do not want to leave, and I am still in it today, and I believe that there are many like me, who have the talent and the ability to create and give.
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