CSS3 is a powerful style sheet to create anything web beautiful. It’s my favorite language to code in because it fills me with joy upon seeing the results.
I thought I’d share a few snippets of code and links with fun, helpful information for you CSS3 nerds out there too. So here goes:
Find a mentor. This is one of my strongest recommendations. I did not have this for the first 3 years of my motion graphics life… Oh the pains and embarrassments I could have avoided if I had taken the time to seek out someone a little farther in the game than myself. Someone to keep me accountable and humble.
I once made a promotional video for a school. I received 2 thumbs up and praise from every friend and colleague who saw the video. I took what I thought was the finished product to one of my mentors and he watched it. The first words out of his mouth was “Go grab a sheet of paper.” We then went section by section, frame by frame, and tore the video apart. By the time we were done, I had nearly two pages full of corrections I needed to make. Allowing myself to take correction and guidance has played a major role in not only shaping me as a motion graphics animator, but as a person.
There is no growth in praise. We are made better when we allow correction in our lives and allow some one to challenge us.
All the robots in transformers sound more like real animals than machines.
Fast Company found out how they did it: Transformers: More Than Meets The Ear
Programming is definitely not for everyone. Those that hate or failed math need not apply. Having tried to learn a few different spoken languages, I can say that learning a new coding language is similar but not as hard as learning something like Mandarin Chinese. It’s more like learning a language with a vocabulary of, say, 200-400 words instead of 100,000-400,000. Coding is like the inverse of solving an algebra equation, meaning instead of simplifying the equation you’re making it bigger and bigger while making sure it is still all true and equal.
