Watch the video above to learn about the most important ingredient of animated motion.
When you learn animation, you will gain an incredible super power.
The super power to create motion, emotion and life from nothing – like an almighty god.
But to make these worlds, characters and stories become a reality on screen, you need to do more than just somehow moving things around.
As an animator you need to be able to tell your audience if what they see is heavy, light, sad or happy – just by the way it moves.
There are many principles, tools and rules that help you to become an animator. But it all comes down to this:
You have to control how motions look and feel
And the most powerful tool that you have to control how a motion feels is spacingSpacing is the distance an element travels between two frames of an animation. By increasing and decreasing the spacings... More.
SpacingSpacing is the distance an element travels between two frames of an animation. By increasing and decreasing the spacings... More is the distance an element travels between two frames of an animation.
Small spacingSpacing is the distance an element travels between two frames of an animation. By increasing and decreasing the spacings... More = small movement
Big spacingSpacing is the distance an element travels between two frames of an animation. By increasing and decreasing the spacings... More = big movement
By increasing and decreasing the spacings over the course of multiple frames, easingEasing describes how softly a motion starts and ends through acceleration and deceleration. This is achieved by graduadl... More can be added to a motion.
A motion with the same spacingSpacing is the distance an element travels between two frames of an animation. By increasing and decreasing the spacings... More between each frame is called a linear motion. This only occurs very rarely in nature and usually needs to be avoided.
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