The best practice for beginning animators

FX animation is fun, can be fast and requires the user to experiment. A very good option for beginners like myself.

You are literally my animation teacher at this point lol.

If I could, I would give you one thousand likes for this amazing video. I have been saying this for years!

As a absolute beginner in the animation field, my FAVORITE ways of learning new techniques have to be a seaweed or tail sway, smear frames, smoke clouds or learning to make fluid movement on 2's instead of 1's, yes it's ideal to learn 1s for a more professional look, but as a one man team it's overwhelming to draw more frames so suggesting twos or even 3s to hold the climax of a motion could Definitely help! Anticipation is a personal favorite of mine when actually drawing out each frame

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That tip on Smoke 2 is genius and honestly so freeing to see you go through. Like, of course it makes sense to separate the movement from the design, we do it with character all the time – but for some reason it never occurred to me to do the same with FX. Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

You may have answered this a hundred times, but what animation software do you think is the best… that has no monthly payment, inexpensive or is an open source(free).
There are a handful out there. What would you suggest?
Thanks.

Where is the whole dusks flightbpls

What are your thoughts on Procreate Dream?

Bro which software brother this one can anybody tel me

This would be so useful if I could actually draw lol

These look so much more fun than what we have.

I'm an absolute begginer at animation but I have a kinda pro level at illustrating (lol) and I'm applying for an animation college next year so this is very helpful. I'm going to start now, whish me luck

I've always found it hard for me to just go from a bouncing ball and other exersies to more complex stuff like walking so this is the perfect middle ground! thank you for this valuable information, I will definitly try these out

im start from effect animation too it help me with timing and many more

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This is such an interesting approach, but it makes so much sense! I think beginners struggle alot with context, I know I did when I first started! So using the principles in more organic ways definitely resonates more with me. And to an extent, can be better translated to other organic characters.

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I've been waiting for this video 😍

Alex Grigg has a vid on some very basic tutorials, and none of them are a bouncing ball lol! Some of his techniques are more about shape and flow, like moving dots(like one of them you did here). Great to see this style of animating here again!!

Ah, I needed this. They shoehorned 2d animation in the game art course I'm doing and I have no idea what to do.

Just started animating yesterday and I can't wait to try these! This was super helpful~

Fire is hardest for me to do.

This semester my animation course started and ive also had the itch to revisit tv paint for some personal work. This vid has perfect timing! Youre work is super inspiring and unique - keep up the great work ❤

So helpful.. 😊

Thank you for this ❤

I really liked seeing your approaches for handling smoke and fire. I'm one of those people that draw out the FX as well as I can from the very beginning and animate from there. But just using gestures and simple shapes to refine on the next pass, especially in the context of adhering to a specific design of FX, is something I definitely wanna try!

We’re all the effects animated on 1s

I am planning to get into vfx with animation anyways and recently started learning animation fully but more on the 3d side. It’s cool to see a lot of the same principles apply 3d vs 2d

i agree!! I remember learning how to animate thin/wavy smoke when I was first starting out. practicing how the lines move and change form and stretch really helped me learn a lot of principles!

Thanks. This really helped me.

This is so useful! Thank you!!!!

You just saved me a TON of brain power trying to animate waves! I completely didn't even consider shifting a top down view 😅😮‍💨🫠😆🤣

Good Video, very interesting ;)

Man you are a good teacher

Thanks, been looking for advice on some first things to animate to help learn. I mean the Animators survival kit is great and all, but Richard Williams shows a bouncing ball and pendulum and then is like "Walks! Do walks now, do lots and lots of walks" and it's like.... walks are HARD! I feel like I need some middle ground there XD.

But now the one thing I really need to learn is how people draw with vector tools... Been animating mostly in photoshop just cause I really struggle to draw with vectors ><

Thank you so much for this video.

As from someone in asia, how did your parents react when you wanted to become an animator? I'm from asia as well and would like some outlook and the struggle you had to face

When it comes to effects animation do you also animate what it's effecting? Like a destroyed building you would have to animate the pieces and any debris left during and after It's been damaged? Or when a character uses a weapon you also animate blood or parts?

i'm not a beginner, but it's always important to relearn the basics every now and then

I've just started relearning animation yesterday then you uploaded this video, you're a wizard!

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