21 Foundations of Animation
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn the 21 foundations of animation: universal principles that can be used to create high-quality animation in any style or medium, including hand-drawn and digital animation.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Getting started with animation
- What you should know
- What is appeal?
- Historical and modern appeal
- Construction
- Design
- From roughs to final color
- Staging a scene to tell a story
- Shots and camera angles
- Lighting and color
- Flour sacks and body language
- Attitude poses
- How keys and breakdowns differ
- Strengthening actions with breakdowns
- Straight ahead vs. pose to pose
- Animating hair and clothing straight ahead
- Animating natural effects straight ahead
- Thumbnails and planning
- Advanced thumbnails
- Timing vs. spacing
- Easing and texture
- Timing and materials
- Squashing and stretching
- Squashing anatomically
- Bouncing ball
- Plotting arcs
- Animate and inanimate motion
- Hair, fur, and clothing
- Positive and negative spaces
- Pushing the pose
- Flexing the spine
- Anticipating a reach
- Overshoot and settle
- Action and reaction
- Opposing action in walks
- Counterpose when standing
- Counterpose in action
- Leading gestures
- Leading on walks
- Breaking joints on gestures
- Breaking joints on walks
- Overlap gestures
- Follow through and moving holds
- Dialogue
- Accenting dialogue actions
- Plussing poses and faces
- Plussing animation
- Cartoon physics
- Wizard and next steps
- Additional resources
Taught by
Dermot O' Connor
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