Top 12 Animation Tips and Tricks to Master Tweening
Top 12 Animation Tips and Tricks to Master
If you are getting started on your path to become an animator or a visual artist, you should anticipate a high expectation from your clients. At some point it may feel overwhelming to say the least. So many pieces need to come together to create a great animation that possesses realistic movement and transitions.
Here are Top 12 Tips and Tricks To Practice
These 12 tips make-up Disney's 12 principles of Animation as referred to as “The Bible of Animation.” Som Singh - a 2D animation wizard from Lotus Animation - one of the best 2D animation companies in India shares his take on the 12 principles of animation.
Squashing and stretching an object when it moves creates the illusion of flexibility giving it a more natural appearance than just making it stiff. The
degree of squashing and stretching also gives viewers the information of how hard or soft the object is.
The “Anticipation” element gives viewers information about what will happen next. For example if a character jumps without bending its knees it will give it an unrealistic appearance. When you throw a ball you pull your arm back before thrusting it forward, these elements when added to the animation is called ‘anticipation.’ It gives the viewers the hint of what’s to come which prevents the appearance of the motion happening out of nowhere.
Ensuring All Movement Has Follow Through
Where “Anticipation” is all about how you started the movement, adding follow through is about ending it. Stopping the movement of an object at once makes it unrealistic as in real life an object will have some inertia that makes it follow through. So adding that small moment of inertia or follow-through in the end of the movement of an object will create a more realistic look.
Add Arcs to Create Natural Movement
Nothing in this natural world moves in a straight line. There’s an arc to every movement and when replicated in the animation it creates a more realistic look. If the moving object feels like it’s looking off, you could try softening the path of the movement with some arcs.
Ease In and Out of Your Movement
When an object moves, neither does it immediately start pacing nor does it come to a halt abruptly; the object also doesn’t remain at the same speed the whole time. According to this principle of slow in and slow out movement you want to make sure that all of the movement has a natural acceleration and deceleration. You can include this into your own animation by adding more frames at the start of the movement, fewer in the middle of the movement and then adding more frames at the end.
Create Intentional Timing
When animating a smooth transition for a moving object you should take the principle of timing into consideration. Here timing refers to how many frames your action takes and how they are laid out to bring the whole object in motion. By editing the number of frames at one time duration you can create the perceived speed and smoothness of the animation.
Secondary actions are the movements that aren’t essential to the scene to be created but supports the main movement in making it more natural so that the final animation doesn’t look flat.
Exaggerating Your Movement
While some animations are created to give the motion a naturalisting appearance, most animation has the element of exaggeration. Subtlety is more appreciated in other forms of art such as writing or painting but with animation adding a dramatic effect makes it more appealing to the viewers.
Staging the Most Important Elements
Staging is all about bringing the audience’s attention to the most important part of the object in a scene. You can visually highlight the movement or an object in a scene by adding other small elements only to the highlighted object and keeping the rest of the scene as it is.
Choose the Right Animation Strategy for Your Scene
When animating a scene frame-by-frame you can either animate with the straight ahead approach or pose to pose approach.
With the straight ahead approach you start at the beginning and animate the movement of the object frame-by-frame individually. With the post to post approach you animate the beginning, end and middle of the movement and then fill the gaps with frames.
Straight ahead approach is best when you need to create a fluid, photorealistic movement. Pose-by-pose approach is best when you need control over the movement of the object and when you want to add dramatic effects to the motion.
Making 2D Objects Look Realistic as if in 3D
Solid objects are ubiquitous in 2D animation, to give it a 3D appearance the artists need to have a firm understanding of its anatomy, volume, lighting and shadows.
Making Your Animations Appealing
In the end, your animation needs to be appealing to your audience. Instead of focusing on the technical aspects of animation try to add some variety, beauty and fun to your animations. There is no one way to achieve it, instead you can start with character development to tell a story through your animation.
Top Tips to Become a Master Animator
Study real movements in the real world
Practice beginners exercises such as animating a bouncing object
Study other animations by watching it frame-by-frame
Recreate those animations on your own
Join the community and follow other animators
Keep practising and be OK when you fail
To master the subtle art of animation learning these 12 principles becomes paramount for all animators and artists. These 12 principles apply to all types of animated motion pictures. Animators must be well-versed with these animation principles to work in top 2D animation companies in India; if you too are passionate about digital animation practising and mastering these 12 principles will be your first step.
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