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Applying the Foundations of Animation

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Ready to use your animation skills in a real-world project? Learn how to apply Dermot O’ Connor’s 21 foundations of animation to create a classical animated scene.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The 21 foundations
1. Planning a Scene
  • Appeal and design
  • Dialog and accents
  • Staging, acting, and thumbnails
2. Applying the Foundations
  • Pose to pose the primary keys
  • Timing and spacing
  • Anticipation, overshoot, and settle
  • Plot arcs
  • Squash and stretch
  • Silhouette, line of action, and reversal
  • Opposing actions and counterpose
  • Leading action and breaking joints
  • Breaking down the action
  • Secondary, overlap, and straight ahead
  • Exaggeration and plussing
  • Planning the scene
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Dermot O' Connor

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