Carlos Baena in 3D Word Magazine

This months 3D World Magazine has a blurb from Carlor Baena on page 20. Carlos and Animation Mentor go head to head with James Huggins from Escape Studios. Carlos is defending the Online learning experience. James Huggins is from their marketing department. Nuff said. Go Carlos Go!
My assignment this week was a real train wreck. I feel like I am told what to do without being shown exactly how to do it. Is there a basic 'how to animate' instruction that I'm missing? I've been shown how to animate a walk cycle, so that is what I did. If that's the hard stuff (walk cycles) then how the hell do I do the 'easy' stuff? I have all of the tools. I know what I want to animate and I've found a little reference and I videoed myself doing the action. But if I was a surgeon, given all of the right tools, the patient is still dead. Where is that spleen?
Well, I'm going back in. Gather Stu's family and loved ones.