Sometimes a character looks correct in one frame and then very strange a couple of frames later. The head gets bigger, the eyes float up, the arms become different lengths, or the jacket rides up the body. All of these…
Put a ball drawing near the top of the screen and another drawing much lower where it meets the ground. You already have two drawings of a bounce. The upper drawing is the peak of the bounce. The bottom drawing…
Animation timing and spacing can alter the feel of movement even when the start and end poses don’t change. For example, the first frame might show a character’s hand in a down position. The last frame has the hand raised…
Let’s say we want to animate a character reaching for a cup. One way to approach this would be to draw every frame leading up to the character picking up the cup, but that’s a lot of work before we…