3 Tips to improve your SENSE OF TIMING for animation!

Are you struggling with your sense of timing in your animation? In this video I break down my 3 main tips: Observe / Analyze / Practice
They have helped me tremendously throughout my career and I hope it's helpful to you too!

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[jeandenishaas]

Let me know if you have any questions! And what are your ways that have helped you refine your sense of timing?

[agercm]

after i became an animator, i never ever thought i would find bonfires and small cascades soo interesting and hypnotic

[mikezxd]

Doing references by my own is kinda cool, especially when its attack animations! Got me a feeling of an great game designer.

[agercm]

another thing that made me sense movement better, is to watch church pastors giving sermons, it opens your mind the way him talks and gesticulates

[komiuziya]

Thank you for listing the 3 tips at the beginning of the video and going on to analyze each later on in the video!!!

[rupeshmajumder]

Totally agree with you that Listening to Music or Playing any musical instruments helps a lot 🙌

[cgworld.online]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, mentioning of animating to music gave me the idea I needed, I just finished putting in the key poses, and found I was really struggling to adjust the timing in maya with some fast paced superhuman movement so finding reference would be difficult.
but then your idea of music, helped as in my head I can get a good idea of what i want, it's just hard applying that into maya,
but if I record myself making sound effects for the movements, i can use that timing for the character.

Thanks again for another great video!

[atamelon]

Hi sir, I’m a new animation student, and honestly was feeling kind of discouraged looking at how easily timing and animation comes to others yet so difficult to grasp for me. But this video gave me encouragement to keep trying. Thank you very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[plutonis]

Appreciate the tips and the mention of that Motion Actor channel. Great stuff! 👍

[TOJImation]

You are a GEM man! I mean that, this was SOO HELPFUL to improve my animation timing. Thank you so much!

I hope you all the best.

[BrandonBloxBB]

I’ll be looking forward to animating and story telling but I’m having fun learning lighting and about environments now in blender. I agree with a lot of what you were saying and I’ll take notes but what gets me excited to get better is getting feedback from lots of people and seeing how I can improve on anything i do! I don’t have much time with my 10 hour day job but I know I can do a lot in 3d one day if I keep at it! And it’s only getting easier to learn overtime.

[chadinnocent]

Bro. So glad I've landed on this. Thanks 🙏🙏🙏

[danielpeixe]

Thanks for the kind words!!, humbled! ☺

[TheWeakenedWarrior]

Great info. I loved Tangled. One of my favorite animated movies.

[hickmancreationsxdombrowsk]

This was really helpful and thanks for the amazing advice!

[harshal]

Always love a good FNA! Love the Lego analogy! 🤓
I follow one of your previously mentioned tips. That is, to make sounds to get the correct rhythm! 😃

[SouldAnimation]

Thank you Leon The professional, i like your tips!

[loranxu]

I can not stress how important it is to keep the shot short. I'm currently working on a 16 second shots, it is daunting. Not that I don't like animating, but it is important to consider how much time you want to spend on this practice, or this work?

[MaheshPagar]

Ha ha ... I am going frame by frame over the section [6:22] where you had sudden realisation of rhyme in "Overtime - sense of Timing". Nice head turn, slanted tilt, asymmetric smile of acknowledgement, nice lead and follow relationship between eyes and face, where eyes are first to react to the change and lead the chin for tilt.

[shi]

This channel is a god damn goldmine

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