5. Follow Through & Overlapping Action - 12 Principles of Animation

This is my video series highlighting each of the 12 Principles of Animation as described by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in their book "The Illusion of Life".

[raedwa]

This guy is giving us a book made out of 200 pages into a 2 min video, great job man

[bielboyster]

Man, you have no idea how these videos are helping me. I've animated before using programs like Pivot, when I was a kid, and after that I just "stopped" the dream. I'm now trying to study animation for real and the way everything works, and your videos are helping me A LOT! Thank you so much for providing these incredible lessons on YouTube. You're awesome!

[Dianimations_]

this is kinda genius ! ur explaining method is amazing ! respect man !

[duckthrowingupgangsigns]

i was like... ''this guy is pretty good at animating'' and then i saw his name and was like: HOLY SHIT THIS GUY IS ANIMATOR VS. ANIMATION GUY!!!! Anyway ty for the help. Thumbs up! :D

[MastaOfTrouble]

Thank you so much! This is very useful since I study 3D Animation :)

[MrTimSultan]

Great explanations! Thanx a lot for those series! Waiting for the next

[SonicFanGirl]

These are extremely helpful! Thank you!

[toonybrain]

I'm really enjoying these videos. KISS in all its veritable glory!

[josh]

Almost half way there xD

Nice tutorial Alan! :D

[m.yunusyunus]

great ....great...great yours basics and actions and principles...

[avrdragonlilili]

Great demonstration!

I wanted complain about making only 5 from 12. But then realized that video are not 10-20 years old, as i tought. Thank you and keep going :)

[heathjgrant]

This is a great video series.  I teach animation at a High School and am using these to help teach the 12 principles.  Thanks again.  

[HunterA]

Hi Alen! I've been a huge fan of yours since you first started animating. I'm going to start animating soon and I'll be using Adobe Flash as well. Are there any tips you can give me or any ideas on what I should animate?

[Ben-synp]

All love these videos keep them up and I loved the animator vs animation do you think you would make more

[frogpaintartist]

Would you make the hair/cloth on a separate layer and make them have more frames than the main animation? I'm never sure how to handle it, wish I could see an example of somebody's timeline with overlapping action. Any advice?

[ajaychoudhari]

nice, please upload more videos Thank You

[wedb]

Wow awesome vids ! u help me so much thanks <3

[GetToDaChoppa-kr]

This is great. I love how you shamelessly ripped off Richard William's bulldog though ha ha.

[MonsterMustache]

These videos helps so much! Thank you! :D

Could you maybe make a tutorial on how to make faces "come to life"?
Cause when I look at my own animations my faces and expressions looks so dead. Do I need to add colors/shading and details to the Eyes so it feels like the characters have a "soul". Or just add more movement to the mouth, nose, face, Eyes, etc?

[brandon_]

I was wondering if I can make make the upper layer totally cover up the under layer Ex (Hair over head and ears). Especially when animating.

If I don’t color and it’s just black and white, I’d presume it wouldn’t work regardless. But do I have to add color to cover up the under layer so the hair can run over normally, or is there a way to do without?