Hi everybody, Frequently people mix up Timing and Spacing. Timing is the time it takes to an action to happen, the arcs describes the usual path of a structure with joints and Spacing refers to […]

Hi everybody, Keys or key poses are drawings describing the motion in an animation sequence. That's why I like to refer to them as extrems, whether in position or in time. Often […]

Hi everybody, The first thing you learn when you study animation is the 12 principles and nowaday they still are the fundamental rules of the animators. But just knowing them is useless (except perhaps if […]

Hi everybody, We can often watch some students works which are not credible because of a lack of knowledge or misinterpretation of forces. We all have faced one day a famous critique "Your animation is […]

Hi everybody, It is easier to detect bad timing problems rather than to explain how to do it right, Yet I think from my point of view, it's like the sense of rythm, it's quite innate. Basically, the timing is […]

Hi everybody, I wanted to write some articles about the different stages of workflow, until I realized that I had to talk about the cornerstone of animation first : The pose. I was recently talking with a former student […]