a summary of animation tutorial by Jacob Patrick

• What is animation? -----Animation is all about bringing a life to the scen
• Characters need to look believable
• Take note!!----take note from your teachers, senior animators and friends. write them down spefically, frame number etc...
• Use Video Reference!!
• 80/20 rule----80% of the whole work finishes by 20% of the time and the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time.
• Look direction----not only eyes but also the brows changes the shape to indicate where the audience is supposed to look.
• Order of event-----ex) eyes go first and then brows go up and heard turns...need to be specific before go into computer
• Mouth arc-----mouth also draw arc when we are at polishing stage we need to look carefully all those stuff
• Holding one pose-----Do not change each pose until the character need to change it with reason
• When to blink-----do not have the character blink at random, characters do blink with reasons
• Act it out-----step away from the computer
• Use your SHOULDER ------most of the time, characters move their shoulder than we are thinking
• How much anticipate-----big movement need to have big anticipation (equal with the movement itself)