The 12 Principles of Animation Explained — The Most Important Rules for Animating
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Published 2024-04-15
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to the Principles of Animation
01:10 - History of the Principles of Animation
02:40 - Squash & Stretch
04:21 - Anticipation
05:55 - Staging
09:21 - Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
10:50 - Follow Through & Overlapping Action
13:30 - Slow In & Slow Out
14:36 - Arcs
15:35 - Secondary Action
17:21 - Timing
19:45 - Exaggeration
21:40 - Solid Drawing
23:30 - Appeal
26:23 - Takeaways
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THE ILLUSION OF LIFE, EXPLAINED
In this episode of the Shot List, we break down the 12 principles of animation, how they work, and why animators continue to use them to this day.
APPLY THE 12 PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION
Squash and Stretch: Deforming objects or characters to emphasize their weight, elasticity, or flexibility.
Anticipation: Preparing the audience for an upcoming action by showing a brief movement or change in expression.
Staging: Presenting ideas or actions in a clear and visually interesting way, directing the audience's attention to convey the intended message.
Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose: Two different approaches to animating movement. Straight ahead animates each frame in sequence, while pose to pose plans key poses first.
Follow Through and Overlapping Action: Continuing movement after the main action stops and parts of a character or object moving at different speeds or times.
Slow In and Slow Out: Gradually increasing or decreasing the speed of movement at the beginning and end of an action.
Arcs: Animating objects and characters along curved trajectories, mimicking real-world motion.
Secondary Action: Additional movements that complement the main action, adding depth and context to a character's performance.
Timing: The speed and rhythm of movements in animation, essential for conveying weight, energy, and emotion effectively.
Exaggeration: Pushing movements and expressions beyond reality to make them more dynamic and expressive.
Solid Drawing: Creating characters and objects with volume, weight, and dimensionality, making animation appear more believable and three-dimensional.
Appeal: Making characters and animation visually interesting and appealing, designing characters with unique personalities and maintaining consistency in design and performance.
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All Comments (21)
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"Animation is not a genre for kids. It's a medium for art, it's a medium for film, and I think animation should stay in the conversation." Guillermo Del Toro
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This is what makes animation appealing to audiences of ALL ages and not simply a child’s medium - the attention to detail and realism. I don’t understand the assumption of many that “cartoons” (animation) are just for kids. It does a great disservice to the artists and that thinking is a sign of a lack of imagination.
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"They must be prepared for the next movement..." while showing a shot from the "Be Prepared" sequence from The Lion King (4:43). This is the top-shelf content that I come here to see!
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Animation Movies are Masterpieces! This video is a complete audiovisual encyclopedia about how Animation works. Thousand Thanks StudioBinder for this Inspiring video. All the Best to come.💯💯💯
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It's always nice to watch about the base principles, no matter how long you have worked in animation. Thanks a lot. Very well crafted video
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Glad StudioBinder is giving the Animation medium the respect it deserves. This is a fantastic video. Would love to see more like this!
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"Exaggeration can serve the emotional reality of a sequence". "Emotional reality" is such a good phrase, I'm going to try remembering this more often when I animate. Since I don't think it applies to just the principle of exaggeration but the art of animation as a whole. We're not simply depicting movement, but stories and emotions. Like the name implies, we aren't movement artists (for lack of a better term), but animators. Thanks for this well put together video!
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Would definitely to see more videos about each steps of the animation production in the future🙏🏾
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This is awesome one thing i love about studio binder is how the breakdown is done have learnt so much from the videos that even when i do my first full animation story will be amazing
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Keep up the great work StudioBinder! Very well done!
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Thanks for this in-depth look at animation! Much of this I already knew but there is so much more that goes into animation. Heck, a single frame animation is a mini-production. My hat is off to all those old school animators (independent and pro) who gave us hours of animated features!!! I think I will stick to live humans to make my features, but there is much to take away from this lesson of animation for filmmaking.
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Always nice to have a refresher on these basics!
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I'm EXTREMELY grateful for dis video
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Amazing! A true animation class!
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I have to say, yall knock it out the park, Im working on my animation short and decided to get a little lesson in of filmmaking that I could apply to animation, whatever but this is the video I really wanted. Good job
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This is incredibly interesting! I never knew any of this about animation and i've been watching disney and cartoons for years.
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This video is perfect! Very inspiring
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What are Media Text, Niche Culture, High Art, Low Art, Pop Culture, Representation, Iconography and Semiotics in film studies could you please make a video on these?❤
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Awesome video like always. I wonder when are we getting a video about music editing in movies, or anything related to sounds.
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Once again you guys have neiled down. Thanks for such awesome content
