Learn Timing

Just had our first Q&A with Mark Behm ~ very nice guy and great mentor! He's definitely someone who not only lives and breathes this stuff, but really knows what to focus on and how to explain things clearly.

My favorite tidbit from tonight was a lesson on timing. Learn it! Understand what a second means. Count it out...one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand...and know that each syllable corresponds to six frames. So 'one' is six frames, 'one-one' is twelve, 'one-one-thou-' is eighteen, and 'one-one-thousand' is twenty-four. Isn't that cool?! I'd never thought of it that way, but this simple breakdown brings quite a bit of tangibility to such an elusive concept. And from the chat window, it looks like everyone simultaneously hit a wow-things-just-make-sense-now moment :)

To really understand timing, Mark suggested consciously trying this out in your references. Watch something and guess how many frames an action corresponds to. Then of course, frame-by-frame it, see how far off you were, and keep working on it till you've got a real feel for how timing works.

That's clarity! The next twelve weeks are going to be great! He even stayed an extra thirty minutes with us to answer questions. And to top it all off, lots of cool people in this class :)