The #1 Skill YOU NEED For Animation Today..

I'm going to show you one of the BEST principles of animation. This principle elevated my animations tenfold once I understood the power of the technique and also when, and, how to apply it to my own work.

The principle I'm talking about is Anticipation or Antics as it's known in the industry. It’s one of the 12 core principles of animation and to better understand this, I've demonstrated two different scenarios in this video so you can see the difference.

We will follow this up with another example showing how crucial anticipation is to mastering motion and why it is the guiding force behind almost all main actions!

Following this, I show you when not to use anticipation. Essentially, if it isn't 'Animated' or 'Alive' then it isn't necessarily required.

To finish up, we will break down a scene from Sony Animation's 'Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse' to drive home the lessons learned in the video!
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[Smeaf]

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[jdesrochers]

If you haven’t already, you should make a video for each of the 12 principals. This is great.

[pianoatthirty]

What’s so amazing about your Blender tutorials is that you explain things quickly with such laser sharp focus, but also do it in a way that is engaging and entertaining. It’s refreshing. I see so many blender tutorials that are either way too slow, requiring you to watch their 45 min video at 2x speed so as to not fall asleep, or go way too fast, where you wonder if the person is just wanting to show off their blender skills, rather than educate the viewer. You seem to magically achieve the perfect balance in your videos. Keep it up!!!

[SpaceMango]

I'm so glad i found this channel! It's the perfect length, easy to just skip to the correct part because you split up your videos in separate sections, and your voice is so nice to listen to. I've been using blender for many years and this channel has sparked so much more inspiration :D

[Stellarspace]

This video is so golden. Not only because it's the one trick to learn all subsequent tricks but because it's the exact animation I want to reproduce on a text :')

[octopusfly]

Classic.
This is a great tip.
Fundamentals are evergreen.

[samuelking]

Thank you for keeping your content short yet still informative and entertaining.

[yg_sthth]

Mans strike again with another animation hot take. Thank you for your service.

[davids]

I'm impressed with the information and presentation. I hope I can incorporate some of this knowledge into my previously lackluster animations.

[m.j.nilsson]

Good video. This gets more tricky with video game character animations, because everything has to happen immediately

[CreativeSteve]

these were very helpful tips Smeaf. Thanks for sharing them. Will definitely give this a try.

[samdzn]

man i love your works and quick and short videos but would love to see long form tutorials!

[Light]

YOU. ARE. UNDERRATED. You deserve much more love and support cuz im a beginner at blender and i wont necessarily use these tips but im very sure that ill need them one day in the future hopefully oh and also one small request uhhh i want to learn blender more im not a complete beginner i know how to make objects i can kind of model i made one rig and im not sure if it works properly cuz i gave up halfway through adjusting the weight paint im kinda in need of a tutorial that goes over the basics of rigging and animation and modelling tbh and some of those pesky hidden unknown keyboard shortcuts....buuuut you are amazing thanks for your amazing content dude i subbed to ya you deserve it <3

[BingsBuddery]

This was a fantastic video, thank you for sharing this concept. Subbed.

[GamerReality]

Ayyy the camera is in focus! You know the video will be good!

[mind_of_a_darkhorse]

You are doing a great job! That tip is very helpful!

[en]

Would you consider doing some longer videos? It seems you have a lot of knowledge and while I like how "to the point" these short snappy vids are, some more in depth vids would be very appreciated!

[drinnerd]

I had a feeling that this video, as handy as it was, was going to give answers to the two questions I didn't have (WHAT is Anticipation and WHEN do you use it?...) and not give an answer to the one question I did have... HOW do you implement these techniques? Like, HOW specifically, in Blender?... I guess I did see something about "shape keys". This is usually what happens in these types of videos. A certain technique is described but there's no technical explanation or literal steps given on how to use something like shape keys or whatever other methods could be implemented to obtain the technique being described. So, I guess I'm wondering what video I need to be looking for?

[thebanjo]

This is really helpful, thank you! And if I may ask, how did you make the render look like that? With the textures and what looked like a filter? It’s really neat.

[bradonhoover]

When he said "Big anticipation translates into big action, " all I could think of was Nick Cage and The Slap of God