Overview
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Learn the 12 principles that underlie everything animators do in movies and video games. Learn how they translate into digital character animation and tools like Blender and Maya.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- How to use the exercise files
- A brief history of character animation
- Think physics and art, not software
- Principle 1: Squash and stretch
- Principle 2: Anticipation
- Challenge: An exercise with a ball
- Solution: An exercise with a ball
- Principles 3: Staging
- Challenge: An exercise with a flour sack
- Solution: An exercise with a flour sack
- Principle 4: Straight ahead
- Principle 4: Pose-to-pose
- Combine them to form copied pairs
- Principle 5: Follow through
- Principle 6: Slow in and out
- Using tangents to control slows/fasts
- Principle 7: Arcs
- Principle 8: Secondary action
- Challenge: An exercise with a flour sack
- Solution: An exercise with a flour sack
- Principle 9: Timing
- Principle 9: Spacing
- Challenge: An exercise with a ball
- Solution: An exercise with a ball
- Principle 10: Exaggeration
- Principle 11: Solid drawing
- Principle 12: Appeal
- Challenge: An exercise with a flour sack
- Solution: An exercise with a flour sack
- Next steps
