Lynda - 2D Animation Principles with Dermot O' Connor

Bring a cast of characters to life. By following the basics principles of animation, you can build characters that interact naturally with their environments, convey realistic emotion, and talk and walk convincingly. In this course, Dermot O' Connor shows how to design a solid character and stage and storyboard your animation before you begin. He'll examine principles like anticipation and squash and stretch, which provide characters with a sense of weight and flexibility, and show you how to animate walk cycles and dialogue. Finally, learn how to thumbnail scenes from start to finish, so you can sketch out the action before you commit to fully rendering it.

Topics include:

Creating gesture drawings

Comparing storyboard styles

Squash, stretch, and volume

Comparing timing and spacing

Using anticipation, overshoot, settle, overlap, and follow-through

Creating eccentric walks

Building stock mouth shapes for dialogue

Creating thumbnails

2D Animation Principles

2h 25m | Beginner | Apr 11, 2014 | Exercise Files | 592 MB

Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 128 kb/s (eng)

Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 192 kb/s, 15,00 fps(r) (eng)

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