A Love Letter to The 12 Principles of Animation

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Learning the 12 Principles of Animation is the biggest hurdle all animators must overcome. But how can these principles remain constant in a medium that is constatly changing? This is the untold story of the 12 Principles of Animation and why they will remain. Forever.

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00:00 The Rules of The Game
00:54 The Origin of The Principles
02:15 #1 Squash and Stretch
02:34 #2 Timing
02:56 #3 Anticipation
03:12 #4 Staging
03:30 #5 Slow In & Slow Out (Spacing)
03:44 #6 Arcs
03:57 #7 Pose to Pose
04:08 #8 Overlap & Followthrough
04:19 #9 Secondary Action
04:29 #10 Exaggeration
04:40 #11 Appeal
04:51 #12 Solid Drawing
05:29 Animation Changed Forever
07:20 Taking Them to the Limit
08:39 Richard’s Masterpiece
10:50 Character Animation Crash Course
11:05 Enter Computer Animation
11:20 Why They Remain Unchanged
12:48 We Are The Next Link

Since I started the channel, it was my dream to also make documentaries on the things I'm passionate about. One of them being the history of 2D animation, which I’m obsessed with, so I wanted to give myself a chance to explain the origin of the 12 principles. Hope you get inspired by what these unsung heroes did, we’re standing in the shoulder of giants!

Remember: "Every line you draw, you are one line closer to your dream!"
Thanks for watching!
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ManuMercurial
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Disney’s biggest mistake was dropping their 2D animation department

marcult
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Best advice I ever got was from a seasoned animator who worked on Disney films, Ghibli, Anime, was this: "everything is a bouncing ball"

twokindsofovenfries
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1. Squash & Stretch
2. Timing
3. Anticipation
4. Staging/silhouette
5. Fast -> slow -> fast -> …
6. Motion arcs
7. Pose to pose method
8. Overlap/follow through
9. Sec action
10. Exaggeration
11. Appeal
12. Solid outline/highlight

tea_are_riii
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I usually don't comment but this is one of the inspirational videos about animation! There aren't really much animators in the world but I'm glad the world is getting to see more animators! and this is so underrated!!

HatterTheRabbit
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No matter how bad the art slump, watching your videos makes me desparately want to draw every time. You're very inspiring and speak with so much passion and kindness, thank you!

TacTaxon
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“Animation is so hard! People who do this for a living deserve more credit and respect!” - Lord Hater

BenHopkins
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This video truly captures why I love animation so much, creating and watching. With so many things threatening 2D animation nowadays I think this was a very important video, not only do we need to protect Richard Williams' masterclass we need to protect this medium as a whole. People love 2D animation, I wish media companies would realise just how much we love it. 3D animation is beautiful and I'm very partial to the 2.5D styles being used nowadays but they all are built on the backs of stop motion and 2D animation and I don't want these mediums I love so much to die. It's satisfying animating in any genre, seeing something inanimate become alive is nothing short of magical, but I always fall back to 2D because nothing feels as magical as that.

vlddy
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This was such a great video dude, awesome work.

RubberRoss
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In 2015 I traditionally animated a bouncing ball, seeing the animation move filled me with such pride and joy never felt before. I lasted 2 weeks in college due to sever declining mental health and ran out of material to draw with, I felt great shame if I had to ask for a pencil and paper so I dropped out of the 1st yr. It's 2024, 27yrs old and still haven’t given up my love of animation, I'm a tattoo apprentice but I'm using tattooing to learn animation. Ex. I'm putting frames in tattoos flashes and timming lines.

VorpalSnickerSnack
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What an experience being an animator is, truly.

Luizo_
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I was an animator student back in my senior high days. However, I've never get to experience alot of getting an animated short. But this video motivates me for study more about animation. My teacher once taught about the 12 Principles of Animation, and mentioned this book. If I could have enough time to study it, I could be a freelance animator with a little experience for animation. Animation is pure art, tbh.

Anyways, I would be happy if you talk about Charles M. "Chuck" Jones. Keep it up, lad!

karlatepes
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Being an animator that will lead the future generation to creating their own animation stories is truly a dream come true.

ItzStarla_Galaxy
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Hey, thanks for the video. It's not just informative, but it also feels like a love letter to animation itself. That last segment actually made me cry. Seeing the history of animation come together and the real, feeling people who influenced all of our beloved media is both humbling and inspiring. I didn't know about Frank Thomas or Ollie Johnston until today, but they both look like they were incredible guys with a passion for life. All the people mentioned here left a wonderful legacy of art, emotions, and inspiration for all generations to come, and I'm so thankful for their work and to you for capturing it here.

denpa
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This is probably my favorite video about animation

SketchyDdleSketch
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To be honest, I don't have words to express the emotions I'm feeling right now. I stopped working on animation, cuz it was taking a lot of effort but seeing this...i came to know how wrong I was :(
Ive understood why should animate
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BECAUSE I CAN :)

Adinary
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Animation is just so incredible to me, early youtube animators I watched as a kid showed me that animation isn't just something from animation companies, but that individuals could learn and do it! Took a while but I'm gettin there lil by lil!

FrilledMayfly_AmberlyFerrule
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I drew my first walk cycle thanks to the Animator’s Survival Kit and had no idea until now because I found the reference image online while searching for walk cycles.

rowan
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This video managed to make me fall in love with a medium I already love.

Ilovemelonss
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The reason The Twelve Principles Of Animation will always be a thing and are what they are is because they're more or less observations of things that already existed--in and out of animation--and were refined over time. They're ideas that can be applied in pretty much any way, place and time, not hard rules of what to do or not. Disney didn't actually invent the principles like everyone assumes (you can find examples of them in works made before or contemporary with Disney's early stuff), but they nailed down what they are in a way that makes sense and did more to define them than anyone else. "The Illusion Of Life: Disney Animation" is to animators what Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War" is to strategists--Animation/War 101, not the end all be all of learning or doing them.

SparkyMK