silhouettes, it prepares the audience to what is about to happen in your scene. It gives them time to process your character’s actions and intentions, thereby making it absolutely clear what the character is doing or thinking. On another level, anticipation helps to emphasize the physicality of your character. Flesh and blood characters [...]

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The truth is that you can’t single out any one principle as "the" most important. In the past, I’ve said that animation is kind of like golf. Have you ever tried to golf? Well, I’m not much of a golfer, but I’ve learned enough to know that there are dozens of important things to remember [...]

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Yikes – the eyelids are a big subject! Here are some quick tips that come to mind:
1) The lids follow the eyes.
As the eyes look around, imagine that they are pulling the eyelids along for the ride – particularly the upper lids.
2) Overdone Lids = Muddy Animation!
Remember, don’t go too bananas with your character’s eyelids. [...]

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When I get my assignment and kick off from the director, I usually spend a whole day away from the computer planning my shot. I refuse to lay down one key until I can see the whole animation in my head. Now I know not everything in my head may work during my execution, and [...]

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When I get my assignment and kick off from the director, I usually spend a whole day away from the computer planning my shot. I refuse to lay down one key until I can see the whole animation in my head. Now I know not everything in my head may work during my execution, and [...]

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Before I go into this topic, I wanted to mention that I think Victor Navone provides some really good tips and tricks on his website (http://www.navone.org/HTML/Tutorials.htm) for splining.
So go check it out! I’d listen to that before any of my nonsense.
So…if your still here, here’s my 2 cents!
I find that this is a particularly difficult [...]

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This is something that I was confused about for a long time, actually, and I used to use these terms interchangeably. However, this question really got me rethinking it, and I decided to pick the brain of some great animators at work about it to see what they thought. Kevin Martel, one of our senior [...]

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Bobby Becky, President and CEO of Animation Mentor, is moderating a free webinar with two Animation Mentor graduates about what they learned in the Animation Mentor program and how it helped them land great jobs.
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Key poses are the “key” moments that most clearly describe the important physical actions or emotional moments in a scene. These are basically your most important poses — in fact, these are so essential to the movement/acting that if you removed any one of them from the scene, it would no longer [...]

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