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Animation Workout
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(67 ratings)
3,940 students

Animation Workout

The fast and effective way to learn the principles of 2D animation
Created byJohn Nightingale, Game Art Co
Last updated 5/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • A solid understanding of the fundamentals of animation.
  • Create simple animations that use the core principles such as: squash & stretch and drag & overlap.
  • Hand draw animations frame by frame to fully understand movement.
  • Apply everything they learn to all future animation projects.

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Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 1h 28m total length

  • Introduction0:22

    Welcome to the animation workout!

  • Spacing8:42

    Starting with the most fundamental principal, you will learn how to time your animations.

  • Spacing
  • Easing5:27

    Easing makes animation come to life and adds real or exaggerated physics to your movement and sells it to the audience.

  • Easing part 26:15
  • Easing
  • Pose to pose8:31

    Add precision to your animation with a technique that will teach you how to plan out your moves.

  • Drag and overlap18:24

    Make things fluid and appealing with a simple principal that can take your animation to the next level.

  • Drag and Overlap
  • Squash and stretch15:43

    Either subtle or insane this will inject a huge amount of appeal and fun into your animation.

  • Squash and Stretch
  • Anticipation6:43

    The most commonly missing element in a beginners animation, this technique makes all the difference.

  • Anticipation
  • The walk cycle Part 17:46

    Possibly the best exercise a novice animator or seasoned professional can do, the walk cycle will test what you'ved learned.

  • The walk cycle Part 210:13

    Refining and wrapping up the walk cycle.

  • Walk Cycle & Final Animation
  • Outro0:15

    Congratulations on completing the course! We hope you have enjoyed the exercises and now have a strong foundation to build on in the endlessly fascinating art form of animation.

Requirements

  • A computer and drawing tablet
  • Basic knowledge of any computer 2d animation software, the course uses Flash (which is now called Animate CC).

Description

If you have never animated in 2D before but always wanted to try or just want to polish your skills, this course is a great way to learn the foundational
principles in a fast and fun way. If you ever wondered how or why an animation goes from passable to professional to perfect then this is the course for you. Understanding these basics will give you the skills to make fun and eye catching animation using nothing more than a single line.

This course is designed so you take one step at a time starting with spacing and easing then later moving on to the principles of drag and overlap. The final task will be hand drawing the legs of a walk cycle. The software used is Flash (now called Animate CC) but you can adapt these principles to any 2D animation software. The advantage with this animation workout is that it does not require drawing skills, if you can draw a line you can start animating straight away!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner animators and hobbyists. No experience required.

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