12 Principles of Animation Compilation

It's no secret that the 12 Principles of Animation are the fundamental building blocks for any animator. Get the hang of these basic techniques and you'll be on your way to understanding the language of animation.

First introduced in The Illusion of Life by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, these 12 principles have remained the quintessential roadmap for aspiring and experienced animators alike. Our animators are no exception! In fact, they have created their very own series of animation tutorials to explain the 12 Principles of Animation, using what you ask? Why, a brown bag, of course!

[parkerjohnson]

lovely video but that ding is very, very annoying

[dimitriskvirski]

A nice demonstration of animation principles but the sound design is horrendous.

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Pretty solid visual demonstration of the key principles.

[isaacholzwarth]

your demonstration of "timing" was incorrect, I believe. The bag falling demonstrated spacing. the bags began to fall at the same time and hit the ground at the same time, but their SPACING was different.:)

[Astronet]

It's "squash and stretch" not "squash or stretch".
When squash happens in one axis a stretch also happens in the opposite axis. So they always happen together. This is to make sure the volume is consistent.
It doesn't really happen individually as depicted here

[ZimCrusher]

0:57 Followthrough is wrong. That is DRAG.
followthrough is the using up of energy after an action is complete. This can use Overlap to achieve this, since overlap is how energy moves through a soft object, or series of objects. So one is part of an action, and the other is a method.
Follow through would be everything you do after you hit the ball with a bat.
Overlap would be your shoulders stopping first, then your arms, then the bat, as well as your hair (which is also secondary action)

1:40 is not timing. That's Spacing. The timing for the 2 bags is the same. They both start and stop at the same time, but the spacing between each position is what gives it the acceleration feeling. Timing is the position in time. So if one bag bounces in a steady beat, an the other bounced either in decay, or random beats, that would be an example of timing.

[IXFALLS]

I am going to study in Ballyfermot next year, and do a PLC Course, 2 years animation course, and then another 2 for my degree, so I can hopefully one day work with you guys (: Really proud to be Irish :3

[hadji]

thats not secondary. you are mixing up secondary with overlap. secondary is to reinforce the acting.

[romansavage.]

As an animator myself, this video bothered me if I am going to be completely honest. I’m not going to bash you and point out all of your mistakes, that is not why I am here, what I am going to say, is to do a little bit more research on each principle before you showcase it to be “facts”. Many of the principles were displayed incorrectly and / or were misleading to the untrained animator eye. A lot of people in the comments are saying that the video is not going to be perfect because it is just explaining the basics, but that is exactly the problem. Since you are explaining the basics, you need to make sure that you are presenting information that is 100% true. Like I said before, I am an animator so it was easy to catch the mistakes in this video, but to most people watching this (who I would assume are not animators simply because they clicked on a video about animating basics), this video appears completely true. All I am saying, is next time please confirm your data before posting it online because you are misleading many people right now, even if it is not your intent, that is the reality. Thank you for reading this if you did.

[KTANA_music]

i dont think the staging principle was properly demonstrated here

[chewrry]

Everything cool until you realised you need to do a flipbook by hand whit 50 pages total
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