Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing - TED-Ed 

I thought the same thing, was it that hard for my teacher to explain like this instead of just read or repeat like a robot??

That’s why I dropped out of art school cause I learned more on my own than those teachers taught us

Omg are you me?? First day of school our prof hands us an x sheet, says “fill it out” and nothing else and then fails a third of the class on the first assignment because none of us knew how to label properly 😭

I really like your animations,man!keep it up!

@@nuttynoah5342 Thanks, I really appreciate that :) Working on new animations and animation tutorials.

Luv your stuff m8

so true :')

Ikr

😭soo true also a animator 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

they have 11 total lessons :) ed.ted.com/series/?series=animation-basics

@@edenweb370 You were four years late on answering him

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@@jamiejones6236 you were 2 years late and i am one month late

@@BlazeZ__ You were 1 month late and I am 4 months late

Same! Have you ended up figuring it out? I'm still at a loss, haha

@@cornonthecob9294 I'm still fairly inexperienced. But I think it could help to make really rough sketches again and again until you feel like the timing is ok. That way, even if your animation doesn't end up looking right at first, you can at least save time before having to do it again.

1:44 You need to act it out or to experience it as it would happen in real time. That means you should perform the action or simulate it in some way while also measuring with a timer. There's an Android app called Animation Timer which was developed by a student animator which measures time and also converts it to different frame rates to make things easy for animators. If you can, you should film yourself performing the action and setting the camera to the same frame rate you're animating in or edit the footage to fit frame rates. You would have perfect reference for the length, the timing and the spacing.

Theres a thing Don Bluth talks about called Beats Per Frame I think, look into that too, interesting stuff for me, cus planning the timing and spacing still kinda fucks me up, I make my main keys/poses and sort of... I guess "space" them out on the timeline, usually 3 poses. I use FlipAClip so the spaces/frames are literally blank until the next pose (or sometimes just the previous pose copy pasted until the next pose, it really depends on what I'm doing) If its slow movement, my main keys/poses are WAAAAY far apart. I label them A1 A2 ect. Once I get that rhythm im looking for, then sort of just draw more poses in between it all (label those B1, then C1 and so forth), until I'm satisfied. Sometimes I draw tweens while still finding the rhythm cus sometimes 3 poses isn't enough. Like the previous comments mentioned, definitely use a clock your movements. Storyboard and thumbnail if you have to just to get a feel of it. If youre running on 24fps, 24 frames (drawings) per second, and your movement is 2 seconds, then youre gonna need at least 48 drawings (24 x 2).