New to Animation? Start Here

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00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - Bouncing Ball
02:04 - Spinning Ball
03:39 - Pendulum
05:40 - Hammer
06:20 - Variations on the exercises
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Takeaways:
- The slower the movement the more images you'll draw
- During fast movements the objects seems to stretch
- Soft objects deform during impact

[OFFICALBREEMATIONSTATION]

This helped me realize why I wasn't improving much in animation, when I started I tried to go from a bouncing ball to acting in animation, this caused me to have little improvement since I first started in 2020. Now I'm going back and starting from the beginning and now I'm gradually building up knowledge by doing these exercises and im actually improving.

Advice: don't rush it.

[reidious]

I had seen most of these before, but this video was so approachable that I'm doing many for the first time now! Every part of this video is spot on. 10/ 10 will watch again and again and again

[inisipisTV]

Just a little suggestion for the Pendulum Animation. Don't put an IB frame on the Middle of the Arc. It causes a little Jarring motion when drawn there (noticeable when the frames are Cleaned-up and colored). It's an old Animation trick. You either put it in slightly to the left or right of the middle, depending on your timing and direction.

[ZOMBIEGAMER_YT]

Thx for the help, I've always wanted to animate, and learn how, but I couldn't understand a lot of it, but your video really helped me

[shaggybro]

2:03 I was just going to watch the rest of the video but because of your immense trust in me, I did the exercise :, )

[debrachambers]

To be an absolute nerd here-
Gravity is quadratic, so the amount a falling object goes down between frames is like this:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9...
And the reverse for something going up. If the object has an initial velocity up or down, you just add that to each frame. Say it goes down with an initial velocity of 10 per frame. Then between each frame it goes down by:
11, 13, 15, 17, 19...

[BlueDevil]

I like when the blue ball bouncing away from us in perspective on the 4th loop, looks like it bounces off the horizon line. Great video. Thank you for taking the time to make it and share it with us. Much much appreciated.

[marisamakesthings]

These exercises are literally more detailed than the ones we had my college’s 2D animation class (though the professor did suddenly retire a few weeks in, so that certainly didn’t help…) I’m definitely gonna be looking through your YouTube videos and checking out your lessons on your personal website. Idk how much time I have but I’d really like to try some of these out. Thank you so much for posting them!

[ArvensisAndromeda]

I love the movement and weight aspects that can be achieved through animation. When probably done, it's visually astounding and I really really hope I get to that level someday.

[smiley_worth]

I did this for a whole week. 1 animation a day. This was really helpful, it helped me get out of my comfort zone and really challenged me to do animation and problem solve everything. I genuinely believe I have learned a lot just by watching this video. Thank you, James!

[Jasper]

A very big thank you from me, ive never actually took timing & spacing and making an animation look smooth seriously but now bc of you i finally have and i just made a bouncy ball that im actually quite proud of, and im going to keep working to make more, thank you!

[vonniebunny]

Every time I see the bouncing ball animation exercise I always have to comment about my university teacher for animation. Who told us in our first lesson. "I'm not going to do the bouncing ball stuff cause you could just learn that in a book, you can do it in your own time if you want" Then proceeded to teach us nothing for 3 years. Thankyou everyone who posts this stuff on youtube.

[DesecratedTTV]

I've been using Blender for 3D animation for a couple of years now and have always wanted to give its 2D animation engine a try; Thank you for helping me get started with that :)

[thatgamerboy]

I've always wanted to do animation because it can make my art come to life, now i like seeing my own animated bouncy ball bounce.

[TehWarriorGecko]

I didn't lie about nothin, it's just 3am and half n hour into a melatonin for me my guy. Good shit!!!

[KingofKings]

FINALLY!!!! I’ve been looking all over for this

[thestarship]

My friend told me that there's 2 ways to learn thing: For example, being taught how to swim through people being beside you and teaching you how, or someone throwing you into the middle of the pool and hope you don't drown.

Now learned to swim the second way. (spoiler: I'm not very good at swimming.)
Anyway this video helps a lot!! Thank you!!

[artcatdraws]

Where has this channel been my whole life. Have my sub sir

[KiyoshiKat]

THE MILLENIUM PUZZLE
all joking aside I tried the first exercise and was immediately feeling more confident than when i was just animating with no practice