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"Some animated sequences can be very complex and require lots of layers, so we can use compositions as a way to focus on particular sequences, organize, and manage a project."
"Transformation in animation is the powerhouse trope that it is because it's a very versatile tool in storytelling."
"Easing just adds a little bit of life to pretty much any animation in After Effects."
"Okay, that's our little circle pop... okay, in this video we're going to look at motion blur... motion blur makes everything look more awesome when it's moving..."
"You can really exaggerate the spacing in animation, getting more contrast between the slow and fast parts of a movement, and this is a great way to make animation more appealing."
"Great lip sync draws no attention to itself and instead allows the focus to be in the narrative."
"Kelly tap dances with the cartoon mouse Jerry. The sequence required the utmost care to pull off; animators had to painstakingly use rotoscoping to match the mouse's movements with Kelly's frame by frame."
"There's no right or wrong way to animate, I've done it several ways myself, this is just the most common way that I use."
"The extra camera adds a layer of depth and even more data for animators to perfect the final shots."
"He created some other popular animated films, sometimes combining live action with stop motion..."
"I figured out the walking first, then animated her talking over the top."
"Creating a change in the colors of the onion skin is actually a monumental help to frame-by-frame animators."
"The show's animation style was mostly hand-drawn but did feature CGI at times."
"We pan layers to create a feeling of movement."
"Layer panning: a trick to create movement without animating much."
"CG often focuses on trying to fit in everything while hand-drawn is more about cutting out what is not needed."
"This wind up arm move is how she generates the force to use her God level cuff boom attack."
"Making it not look so jerky and robotic and actually makes it look professional and clean."
"Those are 10 text animations that I often use for that sleek and dynamic look."
"Let me just quickly do a quick, um, animation so that it can actually look like fabric, because whenever you, um, I think whenever you enter edit mode and change something, um, it has to rebake the data."
"There are better movements in this animation, more realistic and believable motions."
"This kind of effect... you can use this technique for all sorts of logo animations."
"Simple shapes with simple movements are often way more appealing than whatever you'd end up with trying to add more complexity."
"Animation is all about timing and having the patience for it."
"Earthbenders use a few martial arts styles to bend giant rocks and metal."
"Instead I was given two extraordinary marvelous and unique sons who would teach me that dreams however outrageous and possible a far-fetched can and do come true."
"Blocking method allows for fluid animation and easy changes."
"The show has been animated in Korea by a studio named JSON animation for about 15 years but the last season of the show was actually animated in flash by a Canadian studio named George Eliot animation."
"Animation is all about exaggeration so when real life itself looks a little exaggerated in the middle of an extreme motion you got to exaggerate the exaggerated."
"The Little Mermaid was the last Disney film to use hand-painted cel animation."
"A smart application of Follow Through & Overlapping Action can make all the difference."
"By showing less of something, it's ironically a clever way to get the most out of your computer animation."
"What that retain layer sizes allows us to do is when we open up our composition all of our layers are still separate."
"The way the colors change to match the actions and mood, the way the watercolors literally drip and melt around characters to match the devastation of certain moments, everything is breathtaking."
"Now to push that a little bit further... let's make a different rig entirely."
"Autophysics can also make the animation feel more lifelike by adding secondary motion."
"Polishing animation is best performed in the point controller mode. This way you'll be able to adjust at a particular point without affecting its neighbors."
"Since it's silly to try to animate a few hundred crows manually, we are going to set up a particle system in 3D Studio Max to simulate the murder of crows."
"You can work with fewer frames and create much more dynamic interactions."
"A little bit of squash and stretch on a realistic character can make them feel just a little softer."
"Exaggeration of movement is a really big part of animation."
"We're gonna be doing some fun things with animating gradients and some things that people don't even know that you can do."
"You want it to be believable and so that's when we talk we tend to talk pose to pose."
"Animating is like building a puzzle: start simple, add complexity over time."
"Just like how stop-motion is with 2D animation, you could see the work that went into it. You could see some of the sketch lines, you could see some of the minor details."
"Straight Ahead animation works best with action scenes because the focus is on the whole and not the detail."
"Modern 2D animation is a spectrum with traditional or frame-by-frame on one end and computer-generated tween movement on the other."
"The immediate family was designed as a cohesive unit, then the rest of the characters can be plasticine, CGI, stop frame, cutouts, and the town is live-action."
"This practice, referred to as easing, enables us to add realism to animations."
"Follow along in this lesson and learn how to create the storyboard in InDesign, export the pages as JPEGs, and then create frame animations in Photoshop."
"Miles is animated on twos whilst the things around him are animated on ones."
"Animation can be done in various different ways."
"This rubberlike body is an animation playground, really gives a lot of freedom for expression."
"So now you can animate this object moving around, you can animate the spiral right here, opening and closing, and you can create some really cool animations."
"Motion blur... adds quite a bit of realism and offers smoother playback that's a lot nicer to look at."
"Motion easing and motion blur make animations look more natural and real."
"Squash and stretch can add a whole lot of life to your animations and it's really great for making things look cartoony."
"There are so many possibilities with this technique; field forces are so powerful."
"We're going to focus on squash and stretch which is going to give us an amazing sense of weight."
"The best way to use shape tweens is in the simplest way and they can be really, really effective."
"Sometimes you can kind of get a mix, mixing frame by frame and tweens often makes it look quite fluid."
"There's morph animations, follow path animations, there's path line animations for self-drawing effects."