Bastiens

One of the most typical beginner's mistake is to try to do all sophisticated/advanced stuff all at once, without spending the necessary time learning and practicing the basics. I see it all the time in all sort of fields, art, sports, science: kids wanting to learn advanced tricks in skateboarding without having a good ollie, guys applying to do a big project in google summer of code without the proper experience doing simple code maintenance, trying to animate a whole scene with acting without mastering the basics of body mechanics and principles of animation, etc. It always end the same way: people quitting that project/activity, or realizi