How to Keyframe in 2 Minutes

[@pixelsocket]

Thank you for putting these tutorials on TH-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! :)

[@ayanart8763]

You don't have time? I don't have money 😞

[@champu823]

​@@ayanart8763 same brotha

[@archidux1079]

bruh same . 🤜🤛

[@zikoreanpoets]

Us bro us

[@zikoreanpoets]

Sir which software you are using

[@TammyJerkChicken]

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😊

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

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

[@TammyJerkChicken]

@@AlexGriggAnimation aww awesome thank you! I’ve used animate and Toonboom it’s a bit different

[@Geulimchief]

Tvpaint

[@zorbzorbIHATEYOU]

@@TammyJerkChicken I do FlipaClip :’) I don’t have any fancy softwares I’m only 13

[@harmonica_gaming8741]

Was about to ask that, but you saved me from embarrassment!

[@jjju3]

Oh that 6 frame to 12 frame thing is absolutely ground breaking holy shit

[@ziril3972]

I'm a little lost on what it means unfortunately aaaa

[@zetamsn6739]

Yeah, it’s a great way to perceive it

[@amira9759]

@@zetamsn6739 can u explain it to me please I don't get it :,)

[@lukasrooney9194]

@@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.

[@madebymarco]

So how many frames were exactly drawn here?

[@smile--]

This video taught me more about animation than an entire highschool semester of animation class

[@SteeperHornet52]

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.

[@TheJester-ct5pi]

​@@SteeperHornet52If you spent 2 years in Spanish and can't even say Me llamo Steeper you might have a disability

[@seth_bortner]

Just found you today. Brilliant!

[@LycansPlace]

:O
*aggressively makes notes*
Been wanting to get into animation for ages , certain helpful info!

[@tommytress77]

Do you have a mobile device? If so, flipaclip is pretty beginner friendly.

[@jshsjsnsk]

Any good tutorials you can recommend... if you know any? For flipaclip that is. @@tommytress77

[@Nedularr]

So good man! Explained so simply but so well

[@dplj4428]

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

[@freshlybakedmaroon]

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

[@delfinal7560]

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!

[@HihiMiHwa]

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

[@nani0logy]

FINALLY! Quick and straight to the point! Thank you!

[@Amelia_PC]

I added the same keyframe positions with the same fps on Cascadeur, added some in-between just to smooth things, and... man, it worked so well! Awesome lesson. Thanks!

[@christianbunch9047]

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!

[@knightkore1828]

I recently started watching these videos to try and understand how Dokkan animations work, this is a great help!

[@englishshadrick5296]

i love this guys art style.

[@bellablackmist5033]

You just made something less complicated in my brain that I have over stressed about for years

[@MoostruckCoyote]

SAME ive been struggling so bad w an animation im working on and this fixed all of my problems lmao

[@princessthyemis]

This is fantastic!!!! I just started teaching myself animation!

[@hi_its_jerry]

good luck

[@crackasilly]

They gotta have a way to add shorts to a playlist so we can refer back to things like this 😥

[@Thereallyjonez]

Copy and paste the links into a note

[@dashBoard818]

you can see shorts as normal videos in your liked videos playlist

[@StarryInkArt]

agreed!

[@Mindstormer]

I honestly never thought of filling in color post animation. That makes so much sense.

[@cd.6878]

As someone who rarely "likes" videos, this one absolutely deserves one. I have been trying to make a video timed to a song but I can never get the pacing right to line the pose I want to the beat and this tiny little video completely changed how I look at it

[@Quido89]

This is exactly type of videos I need to learn. Thank you!

[@MH-lr6ue]

This was very impressive for 2 minutes I didn't expect to learn so much!!!

[@Gudsur]

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

[@S4NSE]

first person that actually explains the logic, thank you so much!

[@rizkydharma8373]

Simple, amazing, on point! Love it man!

[@ThatNoobKing]

That is simple yet genius
Very helpful!

[@thewriterzshow]

Great one ! I’ve got to work more with the key frame poses, I usually just go impro !

[@Azurey903]

This helps alot, I am a 3D animator currently working on a project thank you for this.

[@haleozcan6075]

never thought this was learnable in this amount of time .thank you sooo much

[@ralphchristianbernardo2929]

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 😊.

[@azronal]

Thank you! I have an animation class and this will help a bunch!

[@Tsuru8688]

Needed that to understand animation better.

[@thinthle]

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).

[@hyzmarie]

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.

[@VortekTheUnfunny]

Meanwhile my braincells experiencing perpetual agony while trying to understand this:

[@specialmamon2405]

Thank youu! Finally found an example❤❤

[@heikichikazu5942]

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

[@snowyttarius]

I love how the audio is so crunchy yet clear?

[@ellietran8408]

going to try this in flipaclip! Moving things around will be a challenge though

[@leannaking9531]

You answered a question I had for so long 😮

[@Lem-yo5tm]

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

[@puffnstuff7905]

Great video! I wanted to ask, what program were you using to animate?

[@user-iz1tx5hn9l]

TVPaint

[@animator---noob8939]

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?

[@Hinge45]

this is too confusing.

[@tknklr]

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.

[@animator---noob8939]

​@@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.

[@animator---noob8939]

@@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.

[@full_metal_mofoe]

yeah....what are 1s and 2s?

[@user-ck8fe8rp6q]

i Love the keyframes cuz it's quite easy :)

[@tobee_gamer5816]

This really helped me better understand keyframes, thanks man

[@darkninja373]

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?

[@carafurry7862]

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.

[@rillhye]

Amazingly helpful especially explains what the brain expects

[@crobno]

effects just make the animation so fresh ombg

[@anyo_mations]

He taught half of The Animator’s Survival Kit in 30 seconds

[@_1r4y1_]

I did this for one of my animations before, didn't know this tip existed ^^

[@Morrimik]

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.

[@marktokkiri3289]

I like to learn more!!!! Im so interested right now!

[@BuglzzSDV]

Thanks bro this was pretty helpful im about to start my youtube channel but I just need a little bit more practice

[@Geordiecrafts]

New to your channel, love your content, subbed!!

[@soda_klk]

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.

[@Rizzasaurus_III]

That’s pretty useful, that looks great

[@Zenith07]

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

[@Bittamin]

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 😂

[@Malakaiser]

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.

[@ReezyResells]

Thanks for these videos ❤ They're the best. Do you have any iPad apps you recommend for keyframe based animation?

[@Vexthewolf03]

omg thank you so much, i stress over this stuff

[@zf10studios52]

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

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

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

[@kirajoker.3508]

I love this tutuorial and this will help me improve my animation skills! (Sorry for bad grammar...) By the way, what animation tool is included in this video?

[@scribbliedoo]

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

[@_helloooo]

which software you use and thanks for this totorial its save my lots of time❤❤❤

[@renae-parfait]

This is great, thank you!

[@EnglishChattyrocks]

Which app did
you use for animation

[@prodsxmmit]

TVpaint

[@drawing370]

If I was having enough money to buy a tablet with stylus then one more animation channel had existed cause I love drawing

[@luceleaf]

if you love drawing you could always use paper and a light box and make flipbooks :)

[@drawing370]

@@luceleaf yes but I still have to learn flipbook because it is a little bit different than only drawing

[@SYD.0_o]

im currently in university for animation and this is super helpful!

[@redd8844]

Ayo this 2 min video teach me more than the usual 10 mins😭

[@taten_da]

That was so helpful, thank you

[@kangmyo]

following you now..keep going mate!.

[@rin5781]

Idk who you are but you saved me. Thank you and have a nice day

[@Skittles_25]

You're so helpful. Thank you

[@d4darwin458]

Amazing man
How long did it take

[@AM-jx3zf]

I have seen theories for 3-4 years and experimented with stuff, so now I know how to make animations and color mixing... But realised I'm just bad at drawing lol 😅😅 i used to think if i learn how to do it, i can draw well enough to do it... But naah

[@Gengalover4304]

Then there's me who just straight ahead

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Straight ahead is fun! I think you'll like my next video 😉

[@justinsjourney3224]

Nice work. 🙏

[@thebestcommenter22]

WAIT PLEASE DONT LEAVE ME PLEASE I LOVETHIS ART STYLE PLEASE MAKE TUTORIALS I NEED THIS

[@thebestcommenter22]

Please

[@gabrielcouto1696]

Yeahhh thanks a lot !! Do more please!!

[@absoluteCAD]

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

[@navneetrout8193]

Holy cow! That's exactly my process.

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

You're a pro now!

[@corseviro]

Finally thank you btw im on ojt hahaha im stuck of it no need worry about it

[@igoohit]

great tip, very useful :)

[@InevitableTruth.]

How come I only find this channel now when I absolutely needed this a year ago for my animation classes.

[@lexicast2608]

AMAZING AS ALWAYS

[@THEDOPESHOW_FrankMidnight]

Great video.

[@aqtrl]

im loving the tutorials. what is the software youre using?

[@Screw064]

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😭

[@stockjjk]

this really helps!!!

[@DownedBlueFire]

It’s so weird how it looks like the sword was ripped out

[@Max10_B]

hard to wrap my head around the breakdown not having to be dead center in the timing of your key poses and how many breakdowns to include. Something about the describing of how long the action takes is wrecking my brain. The breakdowns can really change the feeling of the animation even though they're quick. especially in morphing animations

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hi max, I have a more in-depth tutorial on the channel called "keyframe like a pro". I go into it more there :)

[@Eman02kG]

Subbed instantly

[@full_metal_mofoe]

went over my head.

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

honestly i didnt really understand it well til I was 4 years into my career

[@rodrickheffley4830]

Thanks, now I have an animation degree.

[@Md5offical]

“how to keyframe in 2 minutes”
me: 👁️👄👁️

[@bananabread4011]

can you show a tutorial how to animate please and thank you very much 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@anggarismayadi5825]

I love animation, i think i was an old to create and build charakter and dream to be an animator