Thank you for putting these tutorials on UA-cam! I’m just starting animations and I don’t know how much I actually can do with school and all, and I don’t have time to take a course, so this is a really wonderful find for me! Thank you again! :)
@@amira9759 if I'm understanding it right, when you block out your animation with only those few keyframes, and you get the timing to feel right to your brain, (for example it feels right to have the space between to keyframes 6 frames long) you need to double that once you add actual inbetween frames. (in the example you need 12 frames, even if you draw only 6 and hold each for two) cause your brain sort of distorts time when there's only 3 frames.
Omg I spent all day yesterday looking for a simple and quick tutorial like this, found it while mindlessly scrolling! I can finally get started on that animation I had an idea for
I've been putting action into every single frame and frustrating myself beyond belief. Between extremes, breakdown, and holding motion for 1s and 2s, this is genius and far more help than I expected in a short. Thank you!
I like how you taught how to keyframe in a very short time but still spoke at a rate that's understandable fjsnxnxm Like sometimes these shorts that are like "Learn how to do this in 1 min" goes really really fast and it takes more like 5 minutes fully understanding everything qwq
That's pretty useful information. Before I watched this video I was picturing in my head how to do proper keyframes. I came up with it finally, but I was too lazy to try it out. Now seeing your video, you prooved that my thinking was almost correct, and you gave me motivation to finally start practicing, so THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The more i read about animation, the more i need to learn. Like this breakdown. The 1s and 2s. In-betweens. Storytelling poses, blocking out the motion, overshoot and anticipation
If you watch this and still feel lost. Or don't wanna quess where frames go. I'd suggest looking up Timesheets, Timing charts, Spacing and smear frames. It helps understanding the terms if even you work out your own way(s).
I went to college for Digital Design for my second degree; and animation is way too much work than I care to do. This is why I respect animators so much. It takes loads of work and patience to create the videos we're blessed to witness
Just to clarify the last point, although the animation is 20 frames total, the spacing makes our brain thinks that it is 12 frames long , counted from the last key pose at 20th frame. So in order to make it more fluid, u put ur inbetweens from 10th frame to 20th frame (using both 1's and 2's) . This makes ur animation much more dynamic and energized. Did I get it right?
Yeah I'm still struggling to wrap my head around that bit. But I will say, this guy has some pretty helpful animation guides. Probably the best explained out of most of the animators tuts on YT who just go "lol i dunno i just draw some frames and stuff...". A lot of the beginner stuff goes unexplained which sucks if you're learning on your own.
@@Hinge45 Okay so I have brainstormed a lot and did some experiments and I have got the answer to this. Here let me rephrase everything; Basically the first part of the vid is ur basic [Key frames, Breakdowns and extremes] sequencing. I urge you to watch a more detailed video to grasp it. Now the real gist of this video is to tell you to manipulate the timing and spacing in a way that is more intuitive. This makes animation much more thrilling to draw. How to do that? Well , I assume you know drawings on 1's and 2's and then space ur drawings{poses} far/near to the previous and next pose depending you wanna show fast/slow movement. You must also be aware of timing charts for ur spacing process. I know that I am assuming a lot from you but this is a short vid. Now here is the MAGIC SAUCE!!! you IGNORE the previous mechanical way I just told you and just start drawing all your poses, yes ALL of them[ Keys, BDs, Extremes]. And then u arrange ur poses in a way that you want. In this vid, Alex made the first frame HOLD for 10 frames but the motion doesn't start until much later. As you can see he broke the 1's and 2's timing rule and is just randomly mixing timings like 1's, 2's , 3's or 10's to find his RHYTHYM... He also disregarded the timing chart rule as u can see many poses are at places per his creative vision and not always spaced exactly in the mid of two keyframes. Hope this helps, srry for the length.
@@tknklr **REPOST** Okay so I have brainstormed a lot and did some experiments and I have got the answer to this. Here let me rephrase everything; Basically the first part of the vid is ur basic [Key frames, Breakdowns and extremes] sequencing. I urge you to watch a more detailed video to grasp it. Now the real gist of this video is to tell you to manipulate the timing and spacing in a way that is more intuitive. This makes animation much more thrilling to draw How to do that? Well , I assume you know drawings on 1's and 2's and then space ur drawings{poses} far/near to the previous and next pose depending you wanna show fast/slow movement. You must also be aware of timing charts for ur spacing process. I know that I am assuming a lot from you but this is a short vid. Now here is the MAGIC sauce, you IGNORE the previous mechanical way I just told you and just start drawing all your poses, yes ALL of them[ Keys, BDs, Extremes]. And then u arrange ur poses in a way that you want. In this vid, Alex made the first frame HOLD for 10 frames but the motion doesn't start until much later. As you can see he broke the 1's and 2's timing rule and is just randomly mixing timings like 1's, 2's , 3's or 10's to find his RHYTHYM... He also disregarded the timing chart rule as u can see many poses are at places per his creative vision and not always spaced exactly in the mid of two keyframes. Hope this helps, srry for the length.
YESSSS I NEEDED THIS! Sadly I have zero software to do this with: one pixel app that animates pretty well, but it’s very hard to do a lot of things with pixels in general. And one drawing app where I just edit the drawings into an animatic but can’t do more than 2fps because I have no way to inbetween.
Before I watched this bid I actually started doing this when animating my 3d models, it's much easier to get the right motion when you know where your supposed to end
You are really great at explaing. I understood it pretty well i just need to repeat what i dont understand but eventually it will get into my head. Thank you for this, greeting from the Philippines 😊.
If you do it right you can skip the in-betweens and just make it ease in and out. I like doing that in smaller projects that I don't want to take forever.
after practicing some more, you can start implementing more details like more complex arcs, secondary action (e.g. with the pulling out the sword you could animate him moving his body toward the sword and putting on if his legs on the rock to show weight, more exaggeration and etc.
Loving your vids so far! Think you can make one on how to sync animation to music? For example, a character is walking with their footsteps thumping in sync with the drum thump of the beat.
I dont even draw or animate but it is my dream, but besides that this is convincingly very effective and and i can see myself using it if i happen to give animation a try
Hey I really loved all your videos Especially for beginners, you are just a blessing! Thank you so much for such valuable content... My question is from where did you learn all these things? Can you suggest some youtube channels and tutorials?
This was the best explanation i’ve ever heard… my next question would be can you explain the marks i see on animations with the circles lines and numbers? I know its to keep track of timing but i cant figure out how to read them
Keyframes and “extremes” are two different things. Keyframes are the storytelling drawings that define the “what” of the action, the breakdowns are the “how” it happens, and the inbetweens smooth out the motion (or they’re supposed to anyway!) “extremes” are the drawings that use the farthest points of an arc of motion, defining that motion, and can be either one of the afore mentioned keyframe, breakdown, or inbetween.
You're right! I think an animation would make this feel better but I really wanted to show a motion that only travelled between two keyframes for this example. The cool thing with animation is that there's always room for improvement
I absolutely love your style of drawing - what kind of brush are you using to get the varying width, to make it look like a proper sketch. Do you have videos on setting that up ?? Keep up the great work
Thank you for putting these tutorials on UA-cam! I’m just starting animations and I don’t know how much I actually can do with school and all, and I don’t have time to take a course, so this is a really wonderful find for me! Thank you again! :)
You don't have time? I don't have money 😞
@@ayanart8763 same brotha
bruh same . 🤜🤛
Us bro us
Sir which software you are using
I don’t wanna be that person that asks what software you use but I don’t recognise the ui and I’d like to try it out😊
Heya all good. This is Tvpaint. It's a weird program but I've had a license for ages and enjoy it. The longer class is done in animateCC
@@AlexGriggAnimation aww awesome thank you! I’ve used animate and Toonboom it’s a bit different
Tvpaint
@@TammyJerkChicken I do FlipaClip :’) I don’t have any fancy softwares I’m only 13
Was about to ask that, but you saved me from embarrassment!
Oh that 6 frame to 12 frame thing is absolutely ground breaking holy shit
I'm a little lost on what it means unfortunately aaaa
Yeah, it’s a great way to perceive it
@@zetamsn6739 can u explain it to me please I don't get it :,)
@@amira9759 if I'm understanding it right, when you block out your animation with only those few keyframes, and you get the timing to feel right to your brain, (for example it feels right to have the space between to keyframes 6 frames long) you need to double that once you add actual inbetween frames. (in the example you need 12 frames, even if you draw only 6 and hold each for two) cause your brain sort of distorts time when there's only 3 frames.
So how many frames were exactly drawn here?
This video taught me more about animation than an entire highschool semester of animation class
yeah, highschool doesn't teach you anything honestly. I will be a senior next year, and after taking 2 years of spanish I can barely introduce myself.
Just found you today. Brilliant!
:O
*aggressively makes notes*
Been wanting to get into animation for ages , certain helpful info!
Do you have a mobile device? If so, flipaclip is pretty beginner friendly.
Any good tutorials you can recommend... if you know any? For flipaclip that is. @@tommytress77
Omg I spent all day yesterday looking for a simple and quick tutorial like this, found it while mindlessly scrolling! I can finally get started on that animation I had an idea for
So good man! Explained so simply but so well
They gotta have a way to add shorts to a playlist so we can refer back to things like this 😥
Copy and paste the links into a note
you can see shorts as normal videos in your liked videos playlist
agreed!
I recently started watching these videos to try and understand how Dokkan animations work, this is a great help!
You just made something less complicated in my brain that I have over stressed about for years
SAME ive been struggling so bad w an animation im working on and this fixed all of my problems lmao
I've been putting action into every single frame and frustrating myself beyond belief. Between extremes, breakdown, and holding motion for 1s and 2s, this is genius and far more help than I expected in a short. Thank you!
I like how you taught how to keyframe in a very short time but still spoke at a rate that's understandable fjsnxnxm Like sometimes these shorts that are like "Learn how to do this in 1 min" goes really really fast and it takes more like 5 minutes fully understanding everything qwq
How come I only find this channel now when I absolutely needed this a year ago for my animation classes.
FINALLY! Quick and straight to the point! Thank you!
That's pretty useful information. Before I watched this video I was picturing in my head how to do proper keyframes. I came up with it finally, but I was too lazy to try it out. Now seeing your video, you prooved that my thinking was almost correct, and you gave me motivation to finally start practicing, so THANK YOU SO MUCH!
This is fantastic!!!! I just started teaching myself animation!
good luck
The more i read about animation, the more i need to learn. Like this breakdown. The 1s and 2s. In-betweens. Storytelling poses, blocking out the motion, overshoot and anticipation
i love this guys art style.
If you watch this and still feel lost. Or don't wanna quess where frames go. I'd suggest looking up Timesheets, Timing charts, Spacing and smear frames. It helps understanding the terms if even you work out your own way(s).
I went to college for Digital Design for my second degree; and animation is way too much work than I care to do.
This is why I respect animators so much. It takes loads of work and patience to create the videos we're blessed to witness
first person that actually explains the logic, thank you so much!
Great one ! I’ve got to work more with the key frame poses, I usually just go impro !
This helps alot, I am a 3D animator currently working on a project thank you for this.
This was very impressive for 2 minutes I didn't expect to learn so much!!!
Simple, amazing, on point! Love it man!
Just to clarify the last point, although the animation is 20 frames total, the spacing makes our brain thinks that it is 12 frames long , counted from the last key pose at 20th frame.
So in order to make it more fluid, u put ur inbetweens from 10th frame to 20th frame (using both 1's and 2's) . This makes ur animation much more dynamic and energized.
Did I get it right?
this is too confusing.
Yeah I'm still struggling to wrap my head around that bit. But I will say, this guy has some pretty helpful animation guides. Probably the best explained out of most of the animators tuts on YT who just go "lol i dunno i just draw some frames and stuff...". A lot of the beginner stuff goes unexplained which sucks if you're learning on your own.
@@Hinge45 Okay so I have brainstormed a lot and did some experiments and I have got the answer to this. Here let me rephrase everything;
Basically the first part of the vid is ur basic [Key frames, Breakdowns and extremes] sequencing. I urge you to watch a more detailed video to grasp it.
Now the real gist of this video is to tell you to manipulate the timing and spacing in a way that is more intuitive. This makes animation much more thrilling to draw.
How to do that? Well , I assume you know drawings on 1's and 2's and then space ur drawings{poses} far/near to the previous and next pose depending you wanna show fast/slow movement.
You must also be aware of timing charts for ur spacing process. I know that I am assuming a lot from you but this is a short vid.
Now here is the MAGIC SAUCE!!! you IGNORE the previous mechanical way I just told you and just start drawing all your poses, yes ALL of them[ Keys, BDs, Extremes].
And then u arrange ur poses in a way that you want. In this vid, Alex made the first frame HOLD for 10 frames but the motion doesn't start until much later.
As you can see he broke the 1's and 2's timing rule and is just randomly mixing timings like 1's, 2's , 3's or 10's to find his RHYTHYM...
He also disregarded the timing chart rule as u can see many poses are at places per his creative vision and not always spaced exactly in the mid of two keyframes.
Hope this helps, srry for the length.
@@tknklr **REPOST**
Okay so I have brainstormed a lot and did some experiments and I have got the answer to this. Here let me rephrase everything;
Basically the first part of the vid is ur basic [Key frames, Breakdowns and extremes] sequencing. I urge you to watch a more detailed video to grasp it.
Now the real gist of this video is to tell you to manipulate the timing and spacing in a way that is more intuitive. This makes animation much more thrilling to draw
How to do that? Well , I assume you know drawings on 1's and 2's and then space ur drawings{poses} far/near to the previous and next pose depending you wanna show fast/slow movement.
You must also be aware of timing charts for ur spacing process. I know that I am assuming a lot from you but this is a short vid.
Now here is the MAGIC sauce, you IGNORE the previous mechanical way I just told you and just start drawing all your poses, yes ALL of them[ Keys, BDs, Extremes].
And then u arrange ur poses in a way that you want. In this vid, Alex made the first frame HOLD for 10 frames but the motion doesn't start until much later.
As you can see he broke the 1's and 2's timing rule and is just randomly mixing timings like 1's, 2's , 3's or 10's to find his RHYTHYM...
He also disregarded the timing chart rule as u can see many poses are at places per his creative vision and not always spaced exactly in the mid of two keyframes.
Hope this helps, srry for the length.
yeah....what are 1s and 2s?
This is exactly type of videos I need to learn. Thank you!
Thank you! I have an animation class and this will help a bunch!
going to try this in flipaclip! Moving things around will be a challenge though
That is simple yet genius
Very helpful!
never thought this was learnable in this amount of time .thank you sooo much
Meanwhile my braincells experiencing perpetual agony while trying to understand this:
YESSSS I NEEDED THIS!
Sadly I have zero software to do this with: one pixel app that animates pretty well, but it’s very hard to do a lot of things with pixels in general. And one drawing app where I just edit the drawings into an animatic but can’t do more than 2fps because I have no way to inbetween.
Before I watched this bid I actually started doing this when animating my 3d models, it's much easier to get the right motion when you know where your supposed to end
Great video! I wanted to ask, what program were you using to animate?
TVPaint
You are really great at explaing. I understood it pretty well i just need to repeat what i dont understand but eventually it will get into my head. Thank you for this, greeting from the Philippines 😊.
Im trying to learn animation by myself and this is very helpful. Thank you 👍
If you do it right you can skip the in-betweens and just make it ease in and out. I like doing that in smaller projects that I don't want to take forever.
after practicing some more, you can start implementing more details like more complex arcs, secondary action (e.g. with the pulling out the sword you could animate him moving his body toward the sword and putting on if his legs on the rock to show weight, more exaggeration and etc.
I love how the audio is so crunchy yet clear?
Which app did
you use for animation
TVpaint
i Love the keyframes cuz it's quite easy :)
You answered a question I had for so long 😮
That's a beautiful work place You got there.
So peaceful and relaxing.
That drawing tablets is Expensive. I use my 5inch and 6inch smartphones
This really helped me better understand keyframes, thanks man
I did this for one of my animations before, didn't know this tip existed ^^
That was so helpful, thank you
I like to learn more!!!! Im so interested right now!
effects just make the animation so fresh ombg
Loving your vids so far! Think you can make one on how to sync animation to music?
For example, a character is walking with their footsteps thumping in sync with the drum thump of the beat.
Amazingly helpful especially explains what the brain expects
omg thank you so much, i stress over this stuff
He taught half of The Animator’s Survival Kit in 30 seconds
following you now..keep going mate!.
I dont even draw or animate but it is my dream, but besides that this is convincingly very effective and and i can see myself using it if i happen to give animation a try
That’s pretty useful, that looks great
This is great, thank you!
Thanks bro this was pretty helpful im about to start my youtube channel but I just need a little bit more practice
Hey I really loved all your videos
Especially for beginners, you are just a blessing!
Thank you so much for such valuable content...
My question is from where did you learn all these things?
Can you suggest some youtube channels and tutorials?
You're so helpful. Thank you
im currently in university for animation and this is super helpful!
Yeahhh thanks a lot !! Do more please!!
This was the best explanation i’ve ever heard… my next question would be can you explain the marks i see on animations with the circles lines and numbers? I know its to keep track of timing but i cant figure out how to read them
AMAZING AS ALWAYS
New to your channel, love your content, subbed!!
This is so great I would watch this all day but no way in hell could I pull it off 😅 I was already messing up on Pivot stick figure animation 😂
which software you use and thanks for this totorial its save my lots of time❤❤❤
great tip, very useful :)
Idk who you are but you saved me. Thank you and have a nice day
Great video.
Thanks for these videos ❤ They're the best. Do you have any iPad apps you recommend for keyframe based animation?
Keyframes and “extremes” are two different things. Keyframes are the storytelling drawings that define the “what” of the action, the breakdowns are the “how” it happens, and the inbetweens smooth out the motion (or they’re supposed to anyway!) “extremes” are the drawings that use the farthest points of an arc of motion, defining that motion, and can be either one of the afore mentioned keyframe, breakdown, or inbetween.
this really helps!!!
Nice work. 🙏
Insane Intel 🙌
Thanks! Very helpful!
Heh.. animations time.
These are great!!
Very informative, thankss!
This is awesome but I would add more buildup to before the pull, it feels a little too quick and easy and doesn’t sell the solidity of the rock
You're right! I think an animation would make this feel better but I really wanted to show a motion that only travelled between two keyframes for this example. The cool thing with animation is that there's always room for improvement
I absolutely love your style of drawing - what kind of brush are you using to get the varying width, to make it look like a proper sketch. Do you have videos on setting that up ?? Keep up the great work
That’s cool
That's pretty cool!
Finally thank you btw im on ojt hahaha im stuck of it no need worry about it
Oh i really like this!!
WAIT PLEASE DONT LEAVE ME PLEASE I LOVETHIS ART STYLE PLEASE MAKE TUTORIALS I NEED THIS
Please
thank you so much!!
Ayo this 2 min video teach me more than the usual 10 mins😭
Holy cow! That's exactly my process.
You're a pro now!
The real kicker for me is trying to use a program that isn’t so annoying with add, deleting, or jus moving keyframes cuz I’m hella indecisive😭
Thank you ❤
Thank you!!❤
im loving the tutorials. what is the software youre using?
went over my head.
honestly i didnt really understand it well til I was 4 years into my career
Then there's me who just straight ahead
Straight ahead is fun! I think you'll like my next video 😉
You just got a new sub
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Subbed instantly
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤