As a beginner animator I've been struggling with timing a lot and I've never seen anyone explain it using this method and just after watching this video I feel like I've learned so much. A++ I can't wait to watch more
I worked in 2d animation for 9 years and I can't still explain it like what you did here. And also you are right at the start of the video.. It is still overwhelming even if you have experience. I highly recommend your teaching for beginners and refreshers. a short Animation Survival kit
@@AlexGriggAnimation teaching animation (the practical way) and doing (pro) animation is a different skill. I'm happy (and envious) you get the same skill. Keep it up. I'm gonna watch more of your content to refresh.
that note about the perception of the length of the breakdown is one of the most valuable tips ive learned about animating this year. Been learning for a long time and that made a lot of concepts i've been mulling about click in a satisfying way. Thank you for your work!
I’ve been struggling with understanding how to adjust timing in my animations and the way you explained it has been so helpful, thank you so much for such a digestible break down!
Yes I'm so glad I found this! I've never seen another guide describe timing with holds like this. Anything involving a timing chart always assumes we're using a consistent timing (on ones, twos etc.)
Animation student from Paris here ! Your videos are really amazing. They're so well put together and informative. They help me check up on my technic in a fun and quick way. Thanks for your videos, it's really wonderful people can have access to such informative videos for free. Keep up the good work ❤️
Being an animator, i feel the things are very well put in here. Every animator gets stuck into same things at beginning and you are explaining those really good with the visual representation. Im recommending this to all my fellow animators. Keep it up and all the best!!
I'm re-watching this yet again. And this truly is the most helpful thing I've scene on animating. It just gives you such a nice tool to understand how to do what you want to do. I love it
Really really helpful man, even for someone who has been animating for a while. The description of the timing between key frames and breakdown with the ball was great
These are amazing! I stopped doing animation for a while and I'm gearing myself towards it again. Seeing your videos bring nostalgia and comfort and also are pushing me towards trying again
just fantastically explained. I see aaron blaise do it like this all the time on his livestreams with the breakdown so I picked it up, but you verbalizing like this is so great
Yeh it's definitely something you'll start noticing more now you're seen it once. Check out the blocking for Pixar and Disney 3d films. They're using the same technique
Bravo! I was stubbornly looking for software explanations, but your detailed explanation of the process help me understand why and what I had to do, and not how (click here or there). The software is secondary to the process of ideation and storyboarding.
this series are great! you are an absolute gem!! thank you so much for this well explained and concise teaching videos. very helpful. hope you´ll keep doing more of these
I enjoyed seeing how you could do the blocking phase in After Effects - I spent a lot of the episode wondering how you could do it in AE, and lo and behold you covered it! As always, an amazing video
I appreciate the homework at the end of the video. Often, I'll watch a tutorial and just think about what I learned, but the call to action pushes us to actually try out what we've learned. It's fun too, thank you!
This did help alot, I did alot of frame by frame, but it's more facial expressive/ science fiction / Effects type of animation. This is great tutorial for anatomy movement animations.
Guys get Alex's class. Its amazing!!! I just finished it and am going back to binge this content. Alex, you content is GOLD make more videos and classes please, we need your mad skillz taught to us!¡!¡!
I believe that if you want to key the best animation shot, the process ( 0:16 ) should be Posing, Timing, Spacing, and "Feeling". And keep looping this process until you are satisfied.
Even with stop motion there is a blocking stage. It's good to try out timing and it's also good for testing if the scene is possible with the puppet because it is a physical object. Like a rehearsal. And you take photographs as you go. And using the stills that you took they can be used as targets when animating the final shot.
Thank you so much, timing and Blocking its the hardest part for me since i usually just feel the movement and go for straight ahead, but usally is not convenient, tysm this istuff is not in the books at all
Your classes are top notch and they helped me a lot! I am so much better because of you. I just hope you can make more of these classes, and would like you to know that you can simply show us the normal recording of animate UI without have to "redraw" the animate UI and also animating the UI. That must've taken you a lot of time! Anyway, that's just a personal comment to ease your workload to create these wonderful classes. Sincerely love your work.
thanks so much im trying to practice for stop motion I cant really inbetween as I would in 2d but all the information is super clear, important and beautifully exemplified thanks for that!!
this is a terrific keyframe animatoin tutorial,,,so helpful, you are genius, I really respect you from my heart and I hope you will give us more and more videos like this💝💝💝
This was super helpful and definitely makes tackling animation a little more palatable. Everytime I try to do an animating exercises I always get confused on where to add frames and if I'm even doing it right lol
this is such a good video ! i’m learning animation by myself with youtube videos and this was really cool. after animating a lot on flipnote i tried different softwares but rn i like to draw on krita so i think i’m gonna focus on it for animation too ☺️
I've been holding on getting into frame by frame animation for a long time and this series gave me the inspiration and boost to jump into it, can you please make a video on how you would approach a walk cycle, I usually do my walk cycle animations using an IK rigged character in after effects, I managed to make two decent frame by frame walk cycle animations, but am curious how you would brake down the animation. thanks in advance and keep up the awesome videos!
Ah excellent question. Keyframing like this works best when there are holds in the motion. Thats because there are real differences between the breakdowns and the extremes. When you have constant fluid movement like a walk cycle it can be harder to find those points. With a walk cycle I usually draw the contact poses first (heel striking the ground, and weight on the ball of the rear foot) and then do the passing poses (weight fully on the flat of the foot and the other foot passing below the center of gravity), Then I find poses between those keys. I pay special attention to the rhythm of the center of gravity (the hip joint) and to keeping the contact with ground consistent. It can be a good idea to try and remove the upper body entirely when you start. Do a couple of texts with just the pelvis, legs and feet. Then when you're feeling good about that do a full body version.
I'm a beginner too and I learned on this channel what I never understood in other videos. But I'm sad that I haven't had more updates even with a rapid growth in subscribers.
I love what you are doing with this channel, really making animation clear and simpler to digest, thank you! I just wanted to say that in this video I found a bit confusing what you are explaining at 2:55, where you talk about breakdown and inbetween fames positioning. It did not click that easily to me what you said about my brain perceiving the first keyframe to hold from frame 1 to 5 and the breakdown to start at frame 5, and consequentially the way I should place my inbetweens. I think it would be easier to understand if, after you explained this, you added that we could insert a duplicate of the first key frame at frame 5, so we give the animation more information and we have the control and can directly see how much does the firts keyframe lasts. Just then I can understand why you put one inbetween at frame 7 and not at frame 5, which would be in the middle between K1 and BD. Maybe that's just me not understanding something else, or that's because I do 3d animation. However I found this info interesting and helpful to understand how we perceive our animation blocking. Thank you again for putting your time and effort to make animation accessible and easier for everyone, keep it up!
Yeh that's a good point. If you're animating something with graph editors like After Effects you need to duplicate teh keyframe and drag it to the start of the motion like you've mentioned. That's something I cover verrrry briefly in the video but maybe it would hve been better to mention it earlier. Thanks for the feedback
As a beginner animator I've been struggling with timing a lot and I've never seen anyone explain it using this method and just after watching this video I feel like I've learned so much. A++ I can't wait to watch more
Subscribe!💗
As a beginner which software you are working
@@Tatekingdom9 adobe animate but I've also been experimenting with the grease pencil in blender
Can you show me some of your work
@@hhboyo does adobe animate cost money :(
i could have been an animator in Disney if your tutorials were available 2 decades ago. really effective teaching here. thanks, Sir!
Never too late to start
@@AlexGriggAnimation He's almost ninety years old already.
I worked in 2d animation for 9 years and I can't still explain it like what you did here. And also you are right at the start of the video.. It is still overwhelming even if you have experience. I highly recommend your teaching for beginners and refreshers. a short Animation Survival kit
Hey thanks man. Haha this 2 minute explanation took about two years of rewriting to get right. I'm glad it resonated :)
@@AlexGriggAnimation teaching animation (the practical way) and doing (pro) animation is a different skill. I'm happy (and envious) you get the same skill. Keep it up. I'm gonna watch more of your content to refresh.
Hey guys which software should I start as a beginner
@@Tatekingdom9 doesnt matter which software actually. The principle is wjhats important.
@Tatekingdom9 I started with flipaclip
I literally just felt my brain actively develop as I watched this
BRO YOU EVEN ANIMATED THE SOFTWARES HUD !
@@barisonline3 this was a bad idea haha. It took so long
@ Even replying my comment takes 10 months and I can not imagine how many decades it took for the video haha
I really love your teaching style! It's concise and very clear. I enjoyed this class a lot
I'm so glad!
Indeed, it's really appealing! Cheers and keep up the good work
that note about the perception of the length of the breakdown is one of the most valuable tips ive learned about animating this year. Been learning for a long time and that made a lot of concepts i've been mulling about click in a satisfying way. Thank you for your work!
These are the best animation lessons on TH-cam. Please keep it up
Love this! Breaks down the animation process so well. Sometimes I get lost when animating, so its great to have a list to keep on track.
I’ve been struggling with understanding how to adjust timing in my animations and the way you explained it has been so helpful, thank you so much for such a digestible break down!
This is the best example of how to take blocking to a final animation in a clear understandable way that I have ever seen. Good Job
Hey thanks jasper :)
Yes I'm so glad I found this! I've never seen another guide describe timing with holds like this. Anything involving a timing chart always assumes we're using a consistent timing (on ones, twos etc.)
Animation student from Paris here ! Your videos are really amazing. They're so well put together and informative. They help me check up on my technic in a fun and quick way.
Thanks for your videos, it's really wonderful people can have access to such informative videos for free.
Keep up the good work ❤️
Hey I'm glad you like them :)
Best series of tutorials on TH-cam. As an aspiring animator, these videos are really helpful to help streamlining my process! Thanks, Alex!
I watched millions of videos about animation...
But this is the best video ever
Thank you so much for your hard work
Being an animator, i feel the things are very well put in here. Every animator gets stuck into same things at beginning and you are explaining those really good with the visual representation. Im recommending this to all my fellow animators. Keep it up and all the best!!
I'm re-watching this yet again. And this truly is the most helpful thing I've scene on animating. It just gives you such a nice tool to understand how to do what you want to do. I love it
Hey thanks Hussein, I'm so glad that it's helping :)
I really appreciate how much effort you put in to make the video look so perfect
I can't wait to see more
Oh god. Oh dear god!!! This is the best teaching I've ever seen here on TH-cam. Your video's are absolutely invaluable! Thanks so much for sharing!
Hey thanks mate :)
Really really helpful man, even for someone who has been animating for a while. The description of the timing between key frames and breakdown with the ball was great
Hey thanks Sam. I didn't learn this technique until I'd been animating professionally for about 4 years. Im glad you found it useful!
These are amazing! I stopped doing animation for a while and I'm gearing myself towards it again. Seeing your videos bring nostalgia and comfort and also are pushing me towards trying again
AMAZING! The blocking phase is so inspirational. Impeccable descriptions 👌👌😍🤩
just fantastically explained. I see aaron blaise do it like this all the time on his livestreams with the breakdown so I picked it up, but you verbalizing like this is so great
Yeh it's definitely something you'll start noticing more now you're seen it once. Check out the blocking for Pixar and Disney 3d films. They're using the same technique
this is the best animation channel on youtube😁...belle animazioni
Wow, thanks! I'm glad youre enjoying the classes :)
This is a HUGE help! By far the cleanest explanation i have seen. for someone like me who is just starting out, i thank you so much for sharing this!
This is amazing, not into Animation but I might just try to learn because of this video!
Can't wait to see what you make!
Bravo! I was stubbornly looking for software explanations, but your detailed explanation of the process help me understand why and what I had to do, and not how (click here or there). The software is secondary to the process of ideation and storyboarding.
this series are great! you are an absolute gem!! thank you so much for this well explained and concise teaching videos. very helpful. hope you´ll keep doing more of these
I enjoyed seeing how you could do the blocking phase in After Effects - I spent a lot of the episode wondering how you could do it in AE, and lo and behold you covered it! As always, an amazing video
Haha Thanks for sticking with it. I should have covered some of that earlier in the vid probably :)
Love this video serie. Best channel i have seen when it comes to drawing animation!
Hey thanks Rufus!
Thank you for sharing this process Alex, helps a lot! 💯
This was always a concept I struggled with and couldnt visualise the process. Thanks for walking us through this, key framing seems less spooky now
loving your breakdown. I am speaking with my artist now i think we will be using this process for our indie studio!!! thanks so much!!!
Brilliant!!! You are an excellent tutor- makes one listen carefully and appreciate the moment of learning! Thank you.
I appreciate the homework at the end of the video. Often, I'll watch a tutorial and just think about what I learned, but the call to action pushes us to actually try out what we've learned. It's fun too, thank you!
This did help alot, I did alot of frame by frame, but it's more facial expressive/ science fiction / Effects type of animation. This is great tutorial for anatomy movement animations.
Thanks again!! Loving these animation videos and I can't wait for each one ❤
Happy to hear that!
I really appreciate the amount of work you put into animating and editing this tutorial. Great job!
Hey thanks:) glad you enjoyed
Guys get Alex's class. Its amazing!!! I just finished it and am going back to binge this content.
Alex, you content is GOLD make more videos and classes please, we need your mad skillz taught to us!¡!¡!
I believe that if you want to key the best animation shot, the process ( 0:16 ) should be Posing, Timing, Spacing, and "Feeling". And keep looping this process until you are satisfied.
Absolutely. I encourage people to ask "how does this motion feel?" as often as they can. It's the only compass we have :)
These concepts are common to other media and story telling. Emphasis, too, on planning needed beforehand: story, characters, thumbnail preview, etc.
This is a really high quality video. Really worth the wait.
Hey thanks so much
This channel is simply amazing!👌🏻
Duuude I can't believe you posted this and I totally missed it, I was struggling today with Key frames, you're the best! 😀
Hey Im glad I could help :)
Please which app does he use to animate?
I want to start learning animation
Jesus this tutorial is smooth... Pleasure to eyes and senses. Thanks!
This is an astonishingly useful and engaging explaination. This is seriously gonna help my workflow, many thanks
This guide is amazing! Thank you so much!
Even with stop motion there is a blocking stage. It's good to try out timing and it's also good for testing if the scene is possible with the puppet because it is a physical object. Like a rehearsal. And you take photographs as you go. And using the stills that you took they can be used as targets when animating the final shot.
Excellent stuff. Explained well, great production quality, encouraging perspective on learning. Top notch!
Thank you so much, timing and Blocking its the hardest part for me since i usually just feel the movement and go for straight ahead, but usally is not convenient, tysm this istuff is not in the books at all
Your classes are top notch and they helped me a lot! I am so much better because of you.
I just hope you can make more of these classes, and would like you to know that you can simply show us the normal recording of animate UI without have to "redraw" the animate UI and also animating the UI. That must've taken you a lot of time!
Anyway, that's just a personal comment to ease your workload to create these wonderful classes. Sincerely love your work.
Haha yeh. I won't be doing the fake UI again. Glad you enjoyed!
Beautifully made and so well explained! Thank you so much for sharing these classes.
Kept on watching animation tutorials but always ends up with ur vid 😂 its fun and you can understand it clearly. Love it!
The baseball character is really cool, and I loved watching his movements come to life!
These classes are just an excuse for me to animate fun lil guys :)
Absolutely great video. Congrats. I loved this. So simple yet TONS of informations. Great job.
Amazinggg. I love it. Now im excited and scared to do it
I just found this channel and I loved this video. I'm new to animation but what a great class and such a good rendition of the topic. Thanks.
I really learn from your videos. It's very understandable.
Which animating software are you using? (Also great vid by the way ❤😊)
THANK YOU! your videos are so helpful and made animation fun for me again after I lost motivation :)
Woah what a talented illustrator and animator !
Is all about how to keep the track of animation smooth asf
Highest learning value on TH-cam! 🙌
thanks so much im trying to practice for stop motion I cant really inbetween as I would in 2d but all the information is super clear, important and beautifully exemplified thanks for that!!
this is a terrific keyframe animatoin tutorial,,,so helpful, you are genius, I really respect you from my heart and I hope you will give us more and more videos like this💝💝💝
This was super helpful and definitely makes tackling animation a little more palatable. Everytime I try to do an animating exercises I always get confused on where to add frames and if I'm even doing it right lol
this is such a good video ! i’m learning animation by myself with youtube videos and this was really cool. after animating a lot on flipnote i tried different softwares but rn i like to draw on krita so i think i’m gonna focus on it for animation too ☺️
Great explanation, you are a very good teacher Alex.
As a cpmplete beginner that was really helpful, thank you! I think I have to rewatch it a few times to fully understand
thank you for sharing your expertise with us
Love your art, animation and teaching style Alex. Such great work man!
So helpful! Complete beginner to adobe animate here with coursework due soon!
oh my god this tutorial CHANGED EVERYTHING!!! thank you so much!!!!!!!
I am learning so much. love your teaching style, thank you 👏🏻
Alex Grigg. You are an amazing instructor. Thanks for this.
Just brilliant
Very very good and simple to understand. Thats not easy to achieve! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Makes animation more accessible
Love your content man! Keep it up!
Oh hey thanks Brookes. I just found your channel. Great ideas up there
Oh hey thanks Brookes. I just found your channel. Great ideas up there
omg I'm so glad I found this channel!
This series is so good, Alex!
thanks man, this massively applies to 3d animation.
One word for this guy
LEGEND
You deserve millions of views and subscribers
Awesome video! Your art style is cool which also made this more enjoyable !
Thank you for making this class! It clears lots of doubts!!
This video has helped me immensely. Thank you 🙏
So grateful
for these vids! Thank you!
Nice, now my characters don’t look like they’re speedrunning
I've been holding on getting into frame by frame animation for a long time and this series gave me the inspiration and boost to jump into it, can you please make a video on how you would approach a walk cycle, I usually do my walk cycle animations using an IK rigged character in after effects, I managed to make two decent frame by frame walk cycle animations, but am curious how you would brake down the animation. thanks in advance and keep up the awesome videos!
Ah excellent question. Keyframing like this works best when there are holds in the motion. Thats because there are real differences between the breakdowns and the extremes. When you have constant fluid movement like a walk cycle it can be harder to find those points. With a walk cycle I usually draw the contact poses first (heel striking the ground, and weight on the ball of the rear foot) and then do the passing poses (weight fully on the flat of the foot and the other foot passing below the center of gravity), Then I find poses between those keys. I pay special attention to the rhythm of the center of gravity (the hip joint) and to keeping the contact with ground consistent.
It can be a good idea to try and remove the upper body entirely when you start. Do a couple of texts with just the pelvis, legs and feet. Then when you're feeling good about that do a full body version.
Your channel is a godsend
Ok… for real, this is EXACTLY what I have been searching for!!! Thank you x 1000000000000000000^9
This feels so easy to do now ! Thank you !!!
So glad!
Alex, you're the man. Thanks!
I'm a beginner too and I learned on this channel what I never understood in other videos. But I'm sad that I haven't had more updates even with a rapid growth in subscribers.
amazing channel! thank you , it was very informative, will put it into practice!
Amazing!!Absolutely Amazing!!I LOVE IT!
Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
Hey no sweat!
That was really helpful and enjoyable! Thanks for sharing :)
I love what you are doing with this channel, really making animation clear and simpler to digest, thank you!
I just wanted to say that in this video I found a bit confusing what you are explaining at 2:55, where you talk about breakdown and inbetween fames positioning. It did not click that easily to me what you said about my brain perceiving the first keyframe to hold from frame 1 to 5 and the breakdown to start at frame 5, and consequentially the way I should place my inbetweens. I think it would be easier to understand if, after you explained this, you added that we could insert a duplicate of the first key frame at frame 5, so we give the animation more information and we have the control and can directly see how much does the firts keyframe lasts. Just then I can understand why you put one inbetween at frame 7 and not at frame 5, which would be in the middle between K1 and BD.
Maybe that's just me not understanding something else, or that's because I do 3d animation. However I found this info interesting and helpful to understand how we perceive our animation blocking.
Thank you again for putting your time and effort to make animation accessible and easier for everyone, keep it up!
Yeh that's a good point. If you're animating something with graph editors like After Effects you need to duplicate teh keyframe and drag it to the start of the motion like you've mentioned. That's something I cover verrrry briefly in the video but maybe it would hve been better to mention it earlier. Thanks for the feedback