#animation exercises

The magic dot warmups return and this time it is done on Krita.

As per Alex Griggs's instructions and for most of my Magic Dot animations, the animation was made at 12 frames per second.

Waving Flag Cycle Study - From "Timing for Animation" By Harold Whitaker & John Halas

I'm procrastinating my (rigged) animation homework! And you'll never guess what with....animation studies! Throughout the past year I've been constantly reflecting, frustrated with myself for not being a good animator. Despite me now nearing the end of my first semester as a 2nd year in animation school, I still don't know a lot of the fundamental basics. So alongside the 51 exercises I'm doing (I'm doing it...I swear...exercise 3 is almost done just some volume and easing issues to be adjusted) I'm also just going to make myself pick up the pen and animate! Studies are really fun to me, it's mostly just copying instructions and provided images, then playing around with the drawings slightly.

Our Animation blogger, Nicola, shares some animation exercises that she completed. Although Nicola is wonderful at what she does, she shares why it’s important to master the basics, and that it’s never a bad idea to refresh your mind on the fundamentals!

These are three animation exercises I did to practice the basics. I’ve done a few of these exercises before, but it’s always a good idea to return to the foundational ideas. I made a short animation last semester for Digital Illustration with Kevin O’Neill, and I found that even stuff I thought would be simple was a lot more confusing than I expected! So here I am trying to get a solid…