Mastering Stylized Animation: A Comprehensive Guide

Here is a step-by-step guide to how a professional animator approaches stylizing character animation, as well as how to apply this to your own animations. If you're trying to push your animations to look like an anime, this would be the way to go about doing so to your own animations. Learn these tips and hacks and apply them to your own work!

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[AgoraCommunity]

Thank you so much for mentioning our rigs and other resources! We are so happy to welcome your friends and followers into our animation community 🤗

[cayminations]

Hi! So I'm a self-taught animation student who's animated on twos in blender a few times, and I'm pretty sure others have found this before me, but I have my own little camera trick. Whenever I animate on twos, before I start animating I use a "Child Of" constraint on the root bone of the rig, and parent it to the camera (or in my case, the bone controlling the camera, since I prefer to use a camera rig). That way any time the camera moves, the rig will ALWAYS stay in the same exact position in camera space, and I never have to worry about keeping the rig in-view of the camera.

This doesn't work for ALL motions - like for instance, if I was animating a dialogue scene, I wouldn't use this technique since it's more important for the character to inhabit the world around them than their position relative to camera. But anytime a character is in the air, or running, or generally doing a quick motion that involves movement, I always find this invaluable for keeping it readable even with a moving camera.

I don't know if this is the BEST way to do it, since I am just learning and coming up with methods as I go, but it's the way I found has worked for me.

[Cheesebio]

Damn this looks fire i can't belive a single can can produce this good animations keep going dude we will support you throughout yiur journey

[sabretoothstudios]

This is awesome! I love that you used a bionicle to teach, I’d love to see more like that!

[megapicsxl]

Great video!!! As for the camera movement with stepped interpolation, idk if this is the best way, but I tend to animate the main movement (like a jump for example) on the root bone and keep that on ones, and then do the poses with the rest of the bones on 2s. That way the actual directional movement isn’t choppy, but the poses are.

[iconicstills]

Amazing video and an incredible look behind the scenes as to how stepped animation works!!! It was a pleasure to work with you on this and bring your animation to life! 😊

[oisinholz]

I'm not an animator or anything but I adore the Spider-Verse movies so much because of how they are made. To find a channel that talks them up, and gives them all the credit they deserve AND is a Bionicle nerd? Oh boy that's an easy subscribe!

[karineSo]

9:05 that’s what I do when I don’t feel like using Epic pen and I thought I’m the only one abusing my monitor 😂😂 happy to have found your channel, it’s a treasure!

[XINNX]

Can you make a video focused on lighting and sound design?

[shanshansan]

Me looking at the 48, 219 mile wide penny line whilst my head is cursed to become an acrylic clapperboard

[Whykingdavid]

INCREDIBLE, WE LOVE AND SUPPORT YOU !!

[animable]

hey! very nice breakdown!..regarding Jarring the animation when he is flying, , in the air..i have a solution for that..

1) Make the Character's main control (Global Control) move in ones along with camera and make character change poses in 2's thats what we do in our projects!..hope it helped..thanks!

[That-One-Frog]

My man trying not to say Lego Movie 🗿

Great video, love your content.

[systudios]

where can i get the bionicle rig? animation looks fire btw!

[XINNX]

Great video! will you be making a new one about similar topics now that the strike is over? Would be great to see more videos like this. I didn't fully understand the part with the camera and finger placing

[jamescandyland]

Awesome stuff dude! Love the animation and deep analysis you do! just subbed!🤘

[antares]

That's so coool, love it! Thanks

[urgloryboy]

i really want to start animating, i don’t know what i would need to know im not really good at drawing but i would be dedicated to start learning, i keep telling myself im a little old for this BUT NEVER TO LATE I HOPE, tysm if u answer !

[montroski]

how can I do the scaling keys on the x axis in the graph editor in maya? is there an option in atools?