IT'S FINALLY HERE!! thank you so much for using my drawing, it's so cool to see what you did with it!!! The video is amazing, all your hard work is really inspiring
Congratulations on getting featured! This would be like, the coolest way to ever to get advice and critique, while also getting a great homage to your original submission.
Hot tip: draw the extremes and breakdowns and leave blank frames between them to get a sense of movement. Don’t do the inbetweening. Clean the extremes and breakdowns then do the inbetweening with clean lines. It saves so much time and stops animation from being choppy if you’re not very good at cleaning.
Excuse me, with "cleaning" the extremes and breakdowns, do you mean making a lineart that looks smooth and in a single line rather than a sketch? And if it's the case, how can you draw the inbetweening with the clean lines from the start? I think I would do messy lines first like a sketch
I studied animation and no one had EVER mentioned copying and pasting parts directly from the model sheets onto your animation draft to make staying on model easier. This is honestly such a game-changer tutors should be legally obliged to talk about it lol
@@peph9750 Idk what kind of school the ogc went to, but using copy and paste in animation was taught to me on year one. There’s a quote my teacher uses “It’s a tool just as anything else in animation is.” And “It depends on the animator if they can make it work, not on the tool”. With your point you should never depend on ANY tool in animation not just copy and paste. I could say “Keyframes are a bad habit” because so much animation depends on it, but I don’t, because saying something in animation is a “bad habit” when it’s working, and looks good is the stupidest thing I’ve heard for a while. And if someone can’t animate without a specific technique or a tool: Never blame a technique, but always blame the user.
@@ell4450those kinds of comments make me think of when I was in middle school and high school and this girl was bragging she could draw without a reference, but I was like okay but it doesn’t look as good and you’re not actually studying the figure
You do NOT understand how much this helped me, I’ve always wanted to learn but I couldn’t. Now, I can animate anything! Thank you guys so much, I love this channel! 🔥♥️
I watched this video for the third time. I was both partially procrastinating and busy for a year. I forced myself to sit down today and Im really making a breakthrough with my animation skills. Thank you so much!
Student animator here and I just want to say how reassuring it is to know that even veteran animators take time with clean ups. I've been feeling crappy about my clean up process cause I felt I was really REALLY slow at it ;-;
Honestly this gotta be the best art youtube channel. They actually TEACH and break down fundamentals rather than taking the "this is how I do it" approach most use. I've taken a lot of art classes and consumed a lot of content in the form of tutorials and what not, but man these guys are so gifted at simplifying things! Also, uh yeah they're hella funny and cool too
This is perfect timing. I'm actually trying to create my first animation :D It's 20 seconds long, and it's a glorified lip-sync/emotion/body language test, all in a single shot, but I want to finish it!
Lip syncing and acting is hard. I strongly recommend starting out with little 2-3 second gifs. Just get used to doing drawing 2 key poses and some inbetweens. 20 seconds sounds short, but it’s a lot of work.
@@sloppynyuszi I know, and I'm starting to realize that as I go along. And actually, I did make some small animations before, but I didn't mention those because I never finished most of them. The only one I did finish was a bouncing ball. The 20s thing is just something I push myself to do because I want to challenge myself when it comes to longer things, and learn the kind of pitfalls I fall into when animating a longer sequence. For example, while the first few seconds of rough key frames were pretty consistent, I noticed that I tend to make the character's head smaller as I go on, so I know to look out for that in the future! It's more of a learning experience I strive for, as of now.
Here's to remembering the first animation class where I created the classic bouncy ball animation and thought, "I'm going to make as many frames as possible to make this as smooth as possible." Pressed play and watched my ball snail down the screen... my professor didn't stop me. He wanted me to learn on my own, and then gave me extra time to complete the assignment, as he clearly predicted the inevitable failure. And gosh, I appreciate it. Learning through misstep keeps the lessons in my brain.
Don’t underestimate the value of this, I’ve taken several years of traditional animation classes, and the beginning is practically just this with much more practice and analysis of how to do /this/ better.
I feel like tracing the model is a good thing, even in art. It helps get the proportions right, and eventually you won't need them because of how many times you've drawn that character.
0:49 Start 1:27 The Four Principles 1:30 Easing 1:58 Constant Speed 3:42 Squash and Stretch 4:12 Anticipation 6:44 Model Sheet 7:16 Stick Figure: Animation Tips 9:44 Tracing the model sheet 13:01 Key poses, breakdowns, Inbetweens, and clean up 13:34 One question/Coloring 14:56 End
As someone who once was absolutely clueless and lost while doing animation, these tips are seriously helpful as a newbie (who may never even touched animation ever, I'd say) :' ) When I started getting back into animation in 2017, I was basically lost and kept questioning "how does one even animateeeee?!?!", but once I looked into some animation techniques as well as found out about the 12 principles of animation, it helped me sooo much into getting started with animation and helped me get a better understanding of how it all works/is put together, just a matter of practice from now and developing/learning more techniques (one key change for me was shifting away from pose-to-pose to straight ahead for each body part), and now I'm even amazed I can call myself a decent animator, got people and friends to say my animations look like Kekeflipnote's stuff, and getting 1st place for an advertisement contest (where I decided to animate the full thing for fun lol), and I don't animate regularly either (don't do that though, gotta keep going :o) so that's quite an achievement :' ) oh PS: smear frames are the best things ever to make
Honestly the first time I watched this I didn’t understand anything and immediately just tried to animate a character move, of course I failed, lost my interest and didn’t practice for like two months, now that school is almost ending though I had a lot more time practicing drawing and animation, came back here and finally starting to slowly understand and realizing how amazing you guys are, we had a class that also talked about the fundamentals of animation but honestly it wasn’t interesting and I didn’t really learn anything until I saw this vid again. You guys made this really interesting and fun to watch, amazing work! 👏👏👏✨✨✨✨
This is an incredible video for beginning animators, and a great reminder for myself stick to these basic principles! Definitely pinning this for future reference 👀
I've been looking for some practical tips for just some minor animating stuff (for like advancing my illustrations to pretty gifs without them looking stiff) and you actually delivered some VERY useful points here! The onion layering, drawing different body parts on different layers (oooofffffff cannot stress enough how useful it is) and stick figure drawings for starting It is honestly a good starting point for me, thank you so much!!
this video couldn’t have come at a better time. i’m a highschool student looking to get back at animation again, but i forgot my old methods and my attempts have just been so overwhelming- i just didn’t know where to start. this video is genuinely so helpful. thank you guys for squeezing a ton of knowledge into a free-to-watch 16 minute video, it means so much
Yo, something I find really important and often overlooked is layout. Having even just a simple one-point perspective grid when animating gives you a point of impact and helps you stay consistent.
The film wolfwalkers has inspired me to learn animation and improve my drawing, I'm rather inexperienced but very keen on learning a similar art style. It'll be a long journey but a fun one :)
I literally started crying. I’ve been animating for…two years? And I didn’t know ANYTHING. I didn’t know about arcs, layers, copy pasting drawings, stick figures, basically everything you did in this video. I can’t thank you ENOUGH.
@Ueki I thought I would be better if I did it all from scratch, (dumb ik) plus I did it on and off as a hobby so I never looked into it. Stumbled across this and now I’m back on track! (For example, I knew layers existed but I didn’t know how or when to use them.)
You have to learn something if was too hard to you I learn something even I don't know how I animating it or making it so learning is a best way to make you can do anything even it was hard anything I find it hard I learn it and I never stop myself and never give up because learn turn hard things into easy things
im so glad you didnt sugarcoat the animation process, especially showing at 15:19 theres a lot more personal practice that goes into it. thanks for creating these videos in your free time BaM!
You guys have no idea how excited I get whenever I see you've uploaded a new video. Whenever I've tried to do frame by frame animations I'd get discouraged by the fact it takes too long, and I always thought I was too slow. Knowing that you guys, professional animators took MONTHS to do this loop makes me realize this is just how hard animation actually is.
It takes a really long time. there were times when it was so overwhelming I had to put it down for a month or so. but I just kept coming back to it until it was done.
TY and also the background paintings, the top left one I insta-recognised as me Mum had that one (and I think she still has) when I was growing up. Whew. blast from the past.
The only pro of finding this channel late was not waiting for this video for as long as other people here. Btw, A complete animation guide? LETSSSS GOOOOOO!!!
I’ve got a two channels I want to recommend. Pixi-Gags has a lot of tutorials that are short and easy to understand And Alan Becker Tutorials has a bunch of videos on the basics of using flash, and a vid on the 12 principles of animation
I;ve been working on an animation with my friends and they elected me to draw, and oh my gosh my animations sucked, then I watched this, I’ve gotten much better in a span of 4 days already- I can’t wait for a year!
I am starting on Animate and so far you are the only ones who take the time to explain it and not make it boring, we definitely need more videos like this, thank you 4 this
I was pretty confused about why my animations looked choppy before watching this video. I realised it was because I didn't follow the 12 rules of animation lol- Right now I'm trying to improve my animating skills by starting over again with the ball. Thank you so much for being such an inspiration!
I had a class at Santa Barbara City College by a former Disney animator. Learning to animate this way, i.e. traditionally, is very useful even when you move on to CG or rigged animation. Look at Into The Spider-verse. It’s a CG film but it looks like a 2D one because it has all of these principles in it
I've watched some videos explaining how to start animation, and they didn't help that much. BUT this video, i got something out of it, and i'm grateful for that!!
i love that cat dance animation at the beginning, i still have this vid bookmarked and love to come back to who helped me the most to understand these concepts, love you guys
This was such an informative video to watch, absolutely makes me want to give animation another go. Smear frames + squash and stretch seem super fun and I'd love see what I can do with it in my on work. Also! Haven, the person who sent in the original character design, is SUPER talented. I'd 100% recommend checking her out. Her art is just fantastic, as is she!
really needed this video, I took a 2 year animation course but haven't animated in about 2 years also and when I tried again I was making all those mistakes you guys mentioned, I reall gotta face that I forgot the fundamentals and gotta relearn and practice them :")
'-' i have been in college for animation and graphic design about 4 years now. My goal is to create cartoons.. I found this on my own and this is the most helpful thing I have ever watched to teach me how to animate.. thoroughly... Although a degree will be nice and helpful.. I really couldve invested a few grand into tech and learned online. Thank you for posting videos such as these!! Motivates me not to give up!
Thank you for destroying my illusion xD I thought: yep, Ill install krita and whip up a small animation in a week or two.... well, i dont think that anymore and i think that is good, now i know that itll take me an eternity to finish the project im imagining, but that it is worth the time :D
I love this episode. Ya'll know I'm not an animator, but I've learned so many animation concepts, and techniques, so now I can watch shows and identify when they're being used.
And when the world needed them the most, they returned!!! (You have no idea how much I wanted to say this 😭) The best art school on the internet is back in the session!
First of all I want to apologize for my bad English. The truth is I'm studying animation and I feel like I can't advance. But I would like to tell you that this video made me feel many things, from excitement to anxiety. Not because it's bad, on the contrary, it's because it made me realize that I want to do so many things before I even want to do the most basic things well. I thank you for the video, which is really very good at explaining and now I will practice every day without rest. 😁
What an awesome overview of the entire animation process! 😀 Really impressive how you managed to fit so many explanations and examples into just 16 minutes. 😀
I’m impressed! Have to animate in my studies next semester and never done it before. I guess I just start trying to draw some movements right now :D thanks so much!
Thank you for making this because you actually broke down the stuff that you need to animate in a way that was quick but also very informative way that makes it easier to understand unlike other people
Can you guys make a playlist with all your Animation Tips? This is such an incredible video, and would love to watch a series of these. For some reason, listening to how you two explain it feels chill and relaxing. Please do more!
A lot of this I’ve never thought about. This really helps a lot, and makes it sound a LOT put like this. Not easy, but definitely helps enough that it’ll feel a lot easier.
ooooh god thats the first video on yt that talks about animation properly!!!!!! I always look for it andd FINALLYYYYY im so happy, ur guys r awesome!!!
I just started animating with smear frames and this really helped. Thx! My way of practicing animation is posting it as videos so my subscribers can tell me anything about the animation. Then there I am at home, imagining some more animations and stuff, also practicing my imaginative movement off my couch. I jump off it bc its bouncy enough for a jump movement :D But this video can actually help me in what my animation looks like. I was already practicing smear frames on my newest animation that i'm still making. I can't wait for y'all to see it! 58 frames on the animation so far, using 6fps lets my eyes develop to what I'm seeing. I might practice better fps soon, and yeah. I was also trying to do anticipation for my smear frames too. My smear frames usually have a little anticipation and mostly just squash and stretch animation, sometimes I use actual smear frames.
You the man Brent! Always were. Good thing I've grown less envious in my older years, or I'd be ripping my hair out wishing I could do what you've been able to accomplish. Glad to see the success you've attained!
Animation is indeed fun and easy.....first time I tried it I thought it wouldn't take long too get a 5 min animation. and let me tell you. it took way longer than 5 minutes
I started on animation with no tutorial, I was good at it but not too good. But that’s when I watched this and I got better at it! Thanks a lot for this :)
Thanks for making me feel more confident. You're the only person I saw so far who doesn't have the Apple pen. I have the same drawing bad as you and it makes me happy of how good you're using it
Do not attempt any form of animation until you do a ball bounce. Oh gosh I think I messed up oops well I'm just going to compare with my living island meme I didn't do anything but when I posted my tests I did the sketch and a ball bounce so progress!
I'm so glad I found this. I decided to learn to animate yesterday :3 Let's see if I manage... Yesterday I borrowed a drawing pad, downloaded a software and drew a character design on paper.
Great video! Only criticism is that the ball you animated with the squash and stretch becomes larger and smaller, which happens when you forget to squash it and only focus on the stretch. Otherwise incredibly helpful! This will surely help many beginner animators in the future.
For me it wasn't about the principles, it was about the approach. Far too many animation channels exist for so few to actually undergo teaching how you should apply and start these principles in executing an actual scene with actual characters for an actual production. Finding this channel again, I love how every video has a segment where these principles and lessons are actually executed and shown to animation learners starting from either scratch, rubble, expertise, or a decent foundation how to actually approach a scene and the required or recommended workflow that can work out on tons of programs especially modern animation ones. Its so hard to find a way to approach modern animation and its these kinds of videos that have revived my interests in it.
@April Chan Your comments are interesting. I do not see the lack of a bridge between technique and practical implementation the way you do. I suspect this is subjective. We all have gaps or holes or blank spaces in our process when we are learning. Even when enrolled in formal courses which ought to contain every step in graduated sequence, they do not always meet our individual needs and we may finish them without taking with us a consistent pathway from idea to execution. Good for you! that you have found such gratification here with BaM Animation videos!
Hearing that is took a year is so overwhelming!! I have a story idea I really want to animate, even if it'll take years...I've never animated before but I'm determined to master the basics and not give up!!! 💥💥💥💥💥💥
There is no such principle called “smear” in the 12 principles of animation. Squash and stretch (not paired together exclusively so in this case stretch) covers a drawing which represents a motion-blurring of an object depicted in motion. IOW, there is more than one way to depict motion in a drawing. Just one way is to represent a blur or smear. Both involve a form of stretching.
@@heqmersaltaccountfolio You said, "...isnt that called smear frames not squash and strech?" Squash and Stretch is one of the principles of animation. So perhaps without realizing it you were referring to a principle. They were referring to the principle which was most applicable to their objective. Wording your question differently might have avoided the confusion. For example: "Is this technique called drawing smear frames in the business? Notice how I asked the question without referring to a principle of animation.
IT'S FINALLY HERE!!
thank you so much for using my drawing, it's so cool to see what you did with it!!!
The video is amazing, all your hard work is really inspiring
Congratulations on getting featured! This would be like, the coolest way to ever to get advice and critique, while also getting a great homage to your original submission.
yes
Loved your drawing dude
It’s always really cool to see how Bam interprets a character design for animation.
No problem! we loved your drawing!
The fact that you managed to squeeze in 3 months worth of animation basics training into a 16 minute video is the real magic here.
Thanks! but really I just make the clips faster in premiere, then I can add more in!
@@BaMAnimation bro which app is this
@@snehitsiva6713 i think they're using adobe animate/flash?
Yeah I've been into art school for like 4 months and these guys taught me better.
@@yoannesleonardi6799 at The begining they used Flash but at some point they changed software to Toon Boom Harmony
this is problably the best educational animation channel on TH-cam. I love to see a video notification from you guys!
Well, well, who would guess that you watched american animation channels! That's cool to learn
@@Beiniki 😎
Oxi o pet por aqui KKKKKK
Well look at that! Glad to see you here!
óia quem ta aqui
Hot tip: draw the extremes and breakdowns and leave blank frames between them to get a sense of movement. Don’t do the inbetweening. Clean the extremes and breakdowns then do the inbetweening with clean lines. It saves so much time and stops animation from being choppy if you’re not very good at cleaning.
thank you for the tip
please pin this one
i do this :o it does save me a lot of time
Ty this is a good idea
Excuse me, with "cleaning" the extremes and breakdowns, do you mean making a lineart that looks smooth and in a single line rather than a sketch? And if it's the case, how can you draw the inbetweening with the clean lines from the start? I think I would do messy lines first like a sketch
I studied animation and no one had EVER mentioned copying and pasting parts directly from the model sheets onto your animation draft to make staying on model easier. This is honestly such a game-changer tutors should be legally obliged to talk about it lol
Because it's not a good habit, you should draw each frame independently and rely less on copy pasting.
@@peph9750 i think it all depends on the circumstances
@@peph9750
Idk what kind of school the ogc went to, but using copy and paste in animation was taught to me on year one.
There’s a quote my teacher uses “It’s a tool just as anything else in animation is.” And “It depends on the animator if they can make it work, not on the tool”.
With your point you should never depend on ANY tool in animation not just copy and paste. I could say “Keyframes are a bad habit” because so much animation depends on it, but I don’t, because saying something in animation is a “bad habit” when it’s working, and looks good is the stupidest thing I’ve heard for a while.
And if someone can’t animate without a specific technique or a tool: Never blame a technique, but always blame the user.
@@ell4450those kinds of comments make me think of when I was in middle school and high school and this girl was bragging she could draw without a reference, but I was like okay but it doesn’t look as good and you’re not actually studying the figure
@@peph9750 but i cant draw the other eye 1 second after i drew it so copy and paste is good
You do NOT understand how much this helped me, I’ve always wanted to learn but I couldn’t. Now, I can animate anything! Thank you guys so much, I love this channel! 🔥♥️
I love that you only go over 4 principles to make it easier to digest. Really well presented video for anyone wanting to understand animation!
Hi
Ya, he was actually my life saver because i've been trying to make the perfect first video for like ever, this will definitely help me until then!
Thanks! I love your videos as well! they helped me learn Harmony!
Yeah!!!!
@@BaMAnimation WAIT WHAT
We waited a year for a new episode because they had to make a few seconds-long loop of a cat dancing.
Welcome to animation.
yeah pretty much this! also spent a ton of times on those live streams as well!
BRO. Oh god, I wanna be an animator someday
@@RatifiedWeirdoyeah im starting small rn
so basic movement
@@Davidledonkayyyeah i wanna start too!
cool
I watched this video for the third time. I was both partially procrastinating and busy for a year. I forced myself to sit down today and Im really making a breakthrough with my animation skills. Thank you so much!
One of the only videos on the internet that is entertaining AND teaches you something, without it being boring and confusing
Student animator here and I just want to say how reassuring it is to know that even veteran animators take time with clean ups. I've been feeling crappy about my clean up process cause I felt I was really REALLY slow at it ;-;
Can i ask do you do online school or in person?
@@dreameaterarts2946 I go to a physical school :)
Hey do you know of any good discords for animation?
Honestly this gotta be the best art youtube channel. They actually TEACH and break down fundamentals rather than taking the "this is how I do it" approach most use. I've taken a lot of art classes and consumed a lot of content in the form of tutorials and what not, but man these guys are so gifted at simplifying things! Also, uh yeah they're hella funny and cool too
Hell yeah!!
thanks! allthough honestly it really is just "how I do it" but try to make it as informative as possible!
Tracing the character sheet is such a useful tip that I've never thought of before! But it's so useful to keep the forms consistent!!!
Great video!
trace trace TRACE!
@@BaMAnimation trace trace TRACE! lol
9:43 this is VERY handy to know. I never thought of tracing the character sheet for parts of the character.
so good!!! i learned so much!!!
Hello
Omg I know you :O
Yooo davajoodles
Yoooo it's JavaDoodles
Hallo!!
This is perfect timing. I'm actually trying to create my first animation :D
It's 20 seconds long, and it's a glorified lip-sync/emotion/body language test, all in a single shot, but I want to finish it!
Well i wish you good luck on it!
Ahh cool!!! I hope you complete it!!
The most complex ball bounce
Lip syncing and acting is hard. I strongly recommend starting out with little 2-3 second gifs. Just get used to doing drawing 2 key poses and some inbetweens.
20 seconds sounds short, but it’s a lot of work.
@@sloppynyuszi I know, and I'm starting to realize that as I go along. And actually, I did make some small animations before, but I didn't mention those because I never finished most of them. The only one I did finish was a bouncing ball.
The 20s thing is just something I push myself to do because I want to challenge myself when it comes to longer things, and learn the kind of pitfalls I fall into when animating a longer sequence. For example, while the first few seconds of rough key frames were pretty consistent, I noticed that I tend to make the character's head smaller as I go on, so I know to look out for that in the future! It's more of a learning experience I strive for, as of now.
Here's to remembering the first animation class where I created the classic bouncy ball animation and thought, "I'm going to make as many frames as possible to make this as smooth as possible." Pressed play and watched my ball snail down the screen... my professor didn't stop me. He wanted me to learn on my own, and then gave me extra time to complete the assignment, as he clearly predicted the inevitable failure. And gosh, I appreciate it. Learning through misstep keeps the lessons in my brain.
a good professor!
Teacher: "Your assignment is two months late."
Julie: "I'm so sorry. I'll be done next week."
Teacher: "This was a three day course..."
😂😂
@@NarwahlGaming Hahaha! Sounds about right.
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You have no idea how much I missed this channel
Same here...and this premiere is too good to miss
Me toooooooo
Same🧍♀️
Don’t underestimate the value of this, I’ve taken several years of traditional animation classes, and the beginning is practically just this with much more practice and analysis of how to do /this/ better.
I feel like tracing the model is a good thing, even in art. It helps get the proportions right, and eventually you won't need them because of how many times you've drawn that character.
0:49 Start
1:27 The Four Principles
1:30 Easing
1:58 Constant Speed
3:42 Squash and Stretch
4:12 Anticipation
6:44 Model Sheet
7:16 Stick Figure: Animation Tips
9:44 Tracing the model sheet
13:01 Key poses, breakdowns, Inbetweens, and clean up
13:34 One question/Coloring
14:56 End
Thnks
Thanks dude
Wow thanks man
👑👑
What animating software do you use? I’m trying to get started into animating.
After so long it has been like a year and 8 months since last proper episode, I am just soo happy
As someone who once was absolutely clueless and lost while doing animation, these tips are seriously helpful as a newbie (who may never even touched animation ever, I'd say) :' )
When I started getting back into animation in 2017, I was basically lost and kept questioning "how does one even animateeeee?!?!", but once I looked into some animation techniques as well as found out about the 12 principles of animation, it helped me sooo much into getting started with animation and helped me get a better understanding of how it all works/is put together, just a matter of practice from now and developing/learning more techniques (one key change for me was shifting away from pose-to-pose to straight ahead for each body part), and now I'm even amazed I can call myself a decent animator, got people and friends to say my animations look like Kekeflipnote's stuff, and getting 1st place for an advertisement contest (where I decided to animate the full thing for fun lol), and I don't animate regularly either (don't do that though, gotta keep going :o) so that's quite an achievement :' )
oh PS: smear frames are the best things ever to make
I am not a decent animator BUT I LOVE SMEAR FRAMES!!!
@@ValeraDX It's a lot of fun to draw em :' )
This is very very humbling. Thank you folks for the insight ! I'll never look at any animation with bored eyes ever.
Honestly the first time I watched this I didn’t understand anything and immediately just tried to animate a character move, of course I failed, lost my interest and didn’t practice for like two months, now that school is almost ending though I had a lot more time practicing drawing and animation, came back here and finally starting to slowly understand and realizing how amazing you guys are, we had a class that also talked about the fundamentals of animation but honestly it wasn’t interesting and I didn’t really learn anything until I saw this vid again.
You guys made this really interesting and fun to watch, amazing work! 👏👏👏✨✨✨✨
It's so reassuring to know it takes other people this long to animate
This is an incredible video for beginning animators, and a great reminder for myself stick to these basic principles! Definitely pinning this for future reference 👀
Okey
nice ben vids bro
It was just about perfect time I got back to this channel and was rewatching its old videos lately. I'm so glad I'm finally going to see new stuff.
I've been looking for some practical tips for just some minor animating stuff (for like advancing my illustrations to pretty gifs without them looking stiff) and you actually delivered some VERY useful points here! The onion layering, drawing different body parts on different layers (oooofffffff cannot stress enough how useful it is) and stick figure drawings for starting
It is honestly a good starting point for me, thank you so much!!
This video is an absolute necessity for beginner animators🙏🏽 Big help!
this video couldn’t have come at a better time. i’m a highschool student looking to get back at animation again, but i forgot my old methods and my attempts have just been so overwhelming- i just didn’t know where to start. this video is genuinely so helpful. thank you guys for squeezing a ton of knowledge into a free-to-watch 16 minute video, it means so much
Yo, something I find really important and often overlooked is layout. Having even just a simple one-point perspective grid when animating gives you a point of impact and helps you stay consistent.
9:48 I love how you can tell what site they're referencing just by the layout and the colour scheme.
almost made me log in to my old account!
The film wolfwalkers has inspired me to learn animation and improve my drawing, I'm rather inexperienced but very keen on learning a similar art style. It'll be a long journey but a fun one :)
I literally started crying. I’ve been animating for…two years? And I didn’t know ANYTHING. I didn’t know about arcs, layers, copy pasting drawings, stick figures, basically everything you did in this video. I can’t thank you ENOUGH.
@Ueki I thought I would be better if I did it all from scratch, (dumb ik) plus I did it on and off as a hobby so I never looked into it. Stumbled across this and now I’m back on track! (For example, I knew layers existed but I didn’t know how or when to use them.)
You have to learn something if was too hard to you I learn something even I don't know how I animating it or making it so learning is a best way to make you can do anything even it was hard anything I find it hard I learn it and I never stop myself and never give up because learn turn hard things into easy things
@@mycartoonz259 I have dyslexia and could not read that for the life of me, I’m so so sorry
@@jstar2332 it's ok
@Ueki my words are so long
im so glad you didnt sugarcoat the animation process, especially showing at 15:19 theres a lot more personal practice that goes into it. thanks for creating these videos in your free time BaM!
You guys have no idea how excited I get whenever I see you've uploaded a new video.
Whenever I've tried to do frame by frame animations I'd get discouraged by the fact it takes too long, and I always thought I was too slow. Knowing that you guys, professional animators took MONTHS to do this loop makes me realize this is just how hard animation actually is.
It takes a really long time. there were times when it was so overwhelming I had to put it down for a month or so. but I just kept coming back to it until it was done.
I think the best tip for animation is 'if it looks/feels right, then it most likely is right'
this is pretty much how I animate, but its not a terribly interesting topic for a video so...
as a person who has been animating for 5 years and now finally decided to watch a video about how to do so more effectivly this helps a lot!
TY and also the background paintings, the top left one I insta-recognised as me Mum had that one (and I think she still has) when I was growing up. Whew. blast from the past.
The only pro of finding this channel late was not waiting for this video for as long as other people here.
Btw, A complete animation guide?
LETSSSS GOOOOOO!!!
Excellent! I was thinking of starting animation but actually had no idea how to get started, this is going to be aawesome :D
I’ve got a two channels I want to recommend.
Pixi-Gags has a lot of tutorials that are short and easy to understand
And Alan Becker Tutorials has a bunch of videos on the basics of using flash, and a vid on the 12 principles of animation
@@MANGLORIOUS Wow, thanks for that, I really need it · .3
The tracing part legit blows my mind, no wonder why my animation looks off-model to my character. Thank you so much!!
Thank you for taking in the time to explain these concepts for us!! Animation takes time, but it feels so good when you're done:)
I;ve been working on an animation with my friends and they elected me to draw, and oh my gosh my animations sucked, then I watched this, I’ve gotten much better in a span of 4 days already- I can’t wait for a year!
I am starting on Animate and so far you are the only ones who take the time to explain it and not make it boring, we definitely need more videos like this, thank you 4 this
No problem! we often make videos out of frustration because lot of the videos we watch are boring and unhelpful!
I was pretty confused about why my animations looked choppy before watching this video. I realised it was because I didn't follow the 12 rules of animation lol-
Right now I'm trying to improve my animating skills by starting over again with the ball. Thank you so much for being such an inspiration!
I had a class at Santa Barbara City College by a former Disney animator.
Learning to animate this way, i.e. traditionally, is very useful even when you move on to CG or rigged animation.
Look at Into The Spider-verse. It’s a CG film but it looks like a 2D one because it has all of these principles in it
And "TMvTM" is also an example.
The Bad Guys as well
I've watched some videos explaining how to start animation, and they didn't help that much. BUT this video, i got something out of it, and i'm grateful for that!!
i love that cat dance animation at the beginning, i still have this vid bookmarked and love to come back to who helped me the most to understand these concepts, love you guys
This was such an informative video to watch, absolutely makes me want to give animation another go. Smear frames + squash and stretch seem super fun and I'd love see what I can do with it in my on work. Also! Haven, the person who sent in the original character design, is SUPER talented. I'd 100% recommend checking her out. Her art is just fantastic, as is she!
yes she is great!
I love this channel so much I can't even put it in words.
really needed this video, I took a 2 year animation course but haven't animated in about 2 years also and when I tried again I was making all those mistakes you guys mentioned, I reall gotta face that I forgot the fundamentals and gotta relearn and practice them :")
'-' i have been in college for animation and graphic design about 4 years now. My goal is to create cartoons..
I found this on my own and this is the most helpful thing I have ever watched to teach me how to animate.. thoroughly...
Although a degree will be nice and helpful.. I really couldve invested a few grand into tech and learned online.
Thank you for posting videos such as these!! Motivates me not to give up!
Thank you for destroying my illusion xD I thought: yep, Ill install krita and whip up a small animation in a week or two.... well, i dont think that anymore and i think that is good, now i know that itll take me an eternity to finish the project im imagining, but that it is worth the time :D
I love this episode. Ya'll know I'm not an animator, but I've learned so many animation concepts, and techniques, so now I can watch shows and identify when they're being used.
Oh my goodness I am SO happy you’re finally back. I missed this you guys so much and I can’t wait for the premiere of this video!
And when the world needed them the most, they returned!!!
(You have no idea how much I wanted to say this 😭)
The best art school on the internet is back in the session!
I tried to use a few of these tips for a blink, it was amazing
First of all I want to apologize for my bad English. The truth is I'm studying animation and I feel like I can't advance. But I would like to tell you that this video made me feel many things, from excitement to anxiety. Not because it's bad, on the contrary, it's because it made me realize that I want to do so many things before I even want to do the most basic things well. I thank you for the video, which is really very good at explaining and now I will practice every day without rest. 😁
Bad English?? That's better English than most people who are 100% English
The cat with 3D glasses is vibing around like a pro dancer he is and he's loving it.
The most satisfying feeling is when you get a smooth movement after perfecting it 😌
Yeah
What an awesome overview of the entire animation process! 😀 Really impressive how you managed to fit so many explanations and examples into just 16 minutes. 😀
I’m impressed! Have to animate in my studies next semester and never done it before. I guess I just start trying to draw some movements right now :D thanks so much!
Thank you for making this because you actually broke down the stuff that you need to animate in a way that was quick but also very informative way that makes it easier to understand unlike other people
I'm really into 2d animation so this channel is my favorite one ❤️
Can you guys make a playlist with all your Animation Tips? This is such an incredible video, and would love to watch a series of these. For some reason, listening to how you two explain it feels chill and relaxing. Please do more!
A lot of this I’ve never thought about. This really helps a lot, and makes it sound a LOT put like this. Not easy, but definitely helps enough that it’ll feel a lot easier.
ooooh god thats the first video on yt that talks about animation properly!!!!!! I always look for it andd FINALLYYYYY im so happy, ur guys r awesome!!!
Thank you for teaching me, now that I learned the skills, I'm starting an indie animation series :)
I just started animating with smear frames and this really helped. Thx!
My way of practicing animation is posting it as videos so my subscribers can tell me anything about the animation.
Then there I am at home, imagining some more animations and stuff, also practicing my imaginative movement off my couch. I jump off it bc its bouncy enough for a jump movement :D
But this video can actually help me in what my animation looks like. I was already practicing smear frames on my newest animation that i'm still making. I can't wait for y'all to see it!
58 frames on the animation so far, using 6fps lets my eyes develop to what I'm seeing. I might practice better fps soon, and yeah. I was also trying to do anticipation for my smear frames too.
My smear frames usually have a little anticipation and mostly just squash and stretch animation, sometimes I use actual smear frames.
As an animator with little experience, these really help!
I just realized I'am not bad at animating *i'am bad at drawing*
Wait isn't animation just better art than?
That's cool!! Good for you! I hope u can become an animator, you don't have to know drawing for animating 😉😉✨💕
That's cool. Also if it seems weird to people I watched a TH-cam video with a guy talking about how he learned to animate before learning to draw.
You the man Brent! Always were. Good thing I've grown less envious in my older years, or I'd be ripping my hair out wishing I could do what you've been able to accomplish. Glad to see the success you've attained!
I can not form a word of how I appreciated this video , THANKS YOU . this make me understand more about animation than ever .
I just animated my first bouncing ball! Thank you so much for these easy lessons!
Nice. The first animation exercise all animators go through and teaches squash and stretch! 😃👍
Finally! They are back!!!🎉🎉🎉
Animation is indeed fun and easy.....first time I tried it I thought it wouldn't take long too get a 5 min animation. and let me tell you.
it took way longer than 5 minutes
I started on animation with no tutorial, I was good at it but not too good. But that’s when I watched this and I got better at it! Thanks a lot for this :)
Thanks for making me feel more confident.
You're the only person I saw so far who doesn't have the Apple pen.
I have the same drawing bad as you and it makes me happy of how good you're using it
This is amazing! I've been looking for some animation tips and things like that, and this helps a lot! Can't wait to see the next video! :D
What software do you guys use? It looks like it may be easy to get used to the interface for the kind of art i plan on doing!
Just by looking at it I can instantly tell it’s adobe animate
Do not attempt any form of animation until you do a ball bounce. Oh gosh I think I messed up oops well I'm just going to compare with my living island meme I didn't do anything but when I posted my tests I did the sketch and a ball bounce so progress!
I'm so glad I found this. I decided to learn to animate yesterday :3 Let's see if I manage... Yesterday I borrowed a drawing pad, downloaded a software and drew a character design on paper.
BaM please come back :(
Which app do u find the best/one of the bests for animating?
FlipaClip (I know it’s pretty basic but I absolutely love it
One little question what software do you animate on?
I learned so much from this video and now i am more confident as my animation skills continue to improve. Thank you so much guys
The Legends are back!!!!
Every year you wait your drawing to pop up since 2019 👁️👄👁️
Great video! Only criticism is that the ball you animated with the squash and stretch becomes larger and smaller, which happens when you forget to squash it and only focus on the stretch.
Otherwise incredibly helpful! This will surely help many beginner animators in the future.
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Lol, I already love you guys.
For me it wasn't about the principles, it was about the approach. Far too many animation channels exist for so few to actually undergo teaching how you should apply and start these principles in executing an actual scene with actual characters for an actual production. Finding this channel again, I love how every video has a segment where these principles and lessons are actually executed and shown to animation learners starting from either scratch, rubble, expertise, or a decent foundation how to actually approach a scene and the required or recommended workflow that can work out on tons of programs especially modern animation ones.
Its so hard to find a way to approach modern animation and its these kinds of videos that have revived my interests in it.
@April Chan Your comments are interesting. I do not see the lack of a bridge between technique and practical implementation the way you do. I suspect this is subjective. We all have gaps or holes or blank spaces in our process when we are learning. Even when enrolled in formal courses which ought to contain every step in graduated sequence, they do not always meet our individual needs and we may finish them without taking with us a consistent pathway from idea to execution. Good for you! that you have found such gratification here with BaM Animation videos!
I appreciate the quality and production of your videos. Their presence may be sporadic but I appreciate them like a fine wine!
Foolishly, I did a walk cycle and a little character animation before I did a bouncing ball or pendulum animation.
Instructions unclear: I started WW3
In your dreams
How the (censored) did you go from animating to starting a war?
Everybody here is a animator?
Well, me at least
I am I just don’t post about it :(
No but I’m interested
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I’m a animator 😎👌
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Hearing that is took a year is so overwhelming!! I have a story idea I really want to animate, even if it'll take years...I've never animated before but I'm determined to master the basics and not give up!!! 💥💥💥💥💥💥
It's been like almost a year.. damn
4:56 just a question, isnt that called smear frames not squash and strech?
There is no such principle called “smear” in the 12 principles of animation. Squash and stretch (not paired together exclusively so in this case stretch) covers a drawing which represents a motion-blurring of an object depicted in motion. IOW, there is more than one way to depict motion in a drawing. Just one way is to represent a blur or smear. Both involve a form of stretching.
@@SM-bm6jo i didnt say it was a principle, i just said isnt that called a smear?
@@heqmersaltaccountfolio You said, "...isnt that called smear frames not squash and strech?" Squash and Stretch is one of the principles of animation. So perhaps without realizing it you were referring to a principle. They were referring to the principle which was most applicable to their objective. Wording your question differently might have avoided the confusion. For example: "Is this technique called drawing smear frames in the business? Notice how I asked the question without referring to a principle of animation.