IT'S FINALLY HERE!! thank you so much for using my drawing, it's so cool to see what you did with it!!! The video is amazing, all your hard work is really inspiring

The fact that you managed to squeeze in 3 months worth of animation basics training into a 16 minute video is the real magic here.

this is problably the best educational animation channel on KZfaq. I love to see a video notification from you guys!

I studied animation and no one had EVER mentioned copying and pasting parts directly from the model sheets onto your animation draft to make staying on model easier. This is honestly such a game-changer tutors should be legally obliged to talk about it lol

0:49 Start 1:27 The Four Principles 1:30 Easing 1:58 Constant Speed 3:42 Squash and Stretch 4:12 Anticipation 6:44 Model Sheet 7:16 Stick Figure: Animation Tips 9:44 Tracing the model sheet 13:01 Key poses, breakdowns, Inbetweens, and clean up 13:34 One question/Coloring 14:56 End

Hot tip: draw the extremes and breakdowns and leave blank frames between them to get a sense of movement. Don’t do the inbetweening. Clean the extremes and breakdowns then do the inbetweening with clean lines. It saves so much time and stops animation from being choppy if you’re not very good at cleaning.

We waited a year for a new episode because they had to make a few seconds-long loop of a cat dancing. Welcome to animation.

so good!!! i learned so much!!!

You do NOT understand how much this helped me, I’ve always wanted to learn but I couldn’t. Now, I can animate anything! Thank you guys so much, I love this channel! 🔥♥️

I love that you only go over 4 principles to make it easier to digest. Really well presented video for anyone wanting to understand animation!

I watched this video for the third time. I was both partially procrastinating and busy for a year. I forced myself to sit down today and Im really making a breakthrough with my animation skills. Thank you so much!

One of the only videos on the internet that is entertaining AND teaches you something, without it being boring and confusing

Student animator here and I just want to say how reassuring it is to know that even veteran animators take time with clean ups. I've been feeling crappy about my clean up process cause I felt I was really REALLY slow at it ;-;

This is perfect timing. I'm actually trying to create my first animation :D It's 20 seconds long, and it's a glorified lip-sync/emotion/body language test, all in a single shot, but I want to finish it!

9:43 this is VERY handy to know. I never thought of tracing the character sheet for parts of the character.

I was pretty confused about why my animations looked choppy before watching this video. I realised it was because I didn't follow the 12 rules of animation lol- Right now I'm trying to improve my animating skills by starting over again with the ball. Thank you so much for being such an inspiration!

Honestly this gotta be the best art youtube channel. They actually TEACH and break down fundamentals rather than taking the "this is how I do it" approach most use. I've taken a lot of art classes and consumed a lot of content in the form of tutorials and what not, but man these guys are so gifted at simplifying things! Also, uh yeah they're hella funny and cool too

Here's to remembering the first animation class where I created the classic bouncy ball animation and thought, "I'm going to make as many frames as possible to make this as smooth as possible." Pressed play and watched my ball snail down the screen... my professor didn't stop me. He wanted me to learn on my own, and then gave me extra time to complete the assignment, as he clearly predicted the inevitable failure. And gosh, I appreciate it. Learning through misstep keeps the lessons in my brain.

I feel like tracing the model is a good thing, even in art. It helps get the proportions right, and eventually you won't need them because of how many times you've drawn that character.

First of all I want to apologize for my bad English. The truth is I'm studying animation and I feel like I can't advance. But I would like to tell you that this video made me feel many things, from excitement to anxiety. Not because it's bad, on the contrary, it's because it made me realize that I want to do so many things before I even want to do the most basic things well. I thank you for the video, which is really very good at explaining and now I will practice every day without rest. 😁

Tracing the character sheet is such a useful tip that I've never thought of before! But it's so useful to keep the forms consistent!!! Great video!

You have no idea how much I missed this channel

I've been looking for some practical tips for just some minor animating stuff (for like advancing my illustrations to pretty gifs without them looking stiff) and you actually delivered some VERY useful points here! The onion layering, drawing different body parts on different layers (oooofffffff cannot stress enough how useful it is) and stick figure drawings for starting It is honestly a good starting point for me, thank you so much!!

Thank you for taking in the time to explain these concepts for us!! Animation takes time, but it feels so good when you're done:)

I think the best tip for animation is 'if it looks/feels right, then it most likely is right'

After so long it has been like a year and 8 months since last proper episode, I am just soo happy

Thank you for teaching me, now that I learned the skills, I'm starting an indie animation series :)

Honestly the first time I watched this I didn’t understand anything and immediately just tried to animate a character move, of course I failed, lost my interest and didn’t practice for like two months, now that school is almost ending though I had a lot more time practicing drawing and animation, came back here and finally starting to slowly understand and realizing how amazing you guys are, we had a class that also talked about the fundamentals of animation but honestly it wasn’t interesting and I didn’t really learn anything until I saw this vid again. You guys made this really interesting and fun to watch, amazing work! 👏👏👏✨✨✨✨

It's so reassuring to know it takes other people this long to animate

As someone who once was absolutely clueless and lost while doing animation, these tips are seriously helpful as a newbie (who may never even touched animation ever, I'd say) :' ) When I started getting back into animation in 2017, I was basically lost and kept questioning "how does one even animateeeee?!?!", but once I looked into some animation techniques as well as found out about the 12 principles of animation, it helped me sooo much into getting started with animation and helped me get a better understanding of how it all works/is put together, just a matter of practice from now and developing/learning more techniques (one key change for me was shifting away from pose-to-pose to straight ahead for each body part), and now I'm even amazed I can call myself a decent animator, got people and friends to say my animations look like Kekeflipnote's stuff, and getting 1st place for an advertisement contest (where I decided to animate the full thing for fun lol), and I don't animate regularly either (don't do that though, gotta keep going :o) so that's quite an achievement :' ) oh PS: smear frames are the best things ever to make

This video is an absolute necessity for beginner animators🙏🏽 Big help!

What software do you guys use? It looks like it may be easy to get used to the interface for the kind of art i plan on doing!

This is an incredible video for beginning animators, and a great reminder for myself stick to these basic principles! Definitely pinning this for future reference 👀

Yo, something I find really important and often overlooked is layout. Having even just a simple one-point perspective grid when animating gives you a point of impact and helps you stay consistent.

i cannot put into words how amazing this video is. thank you sooo much for taking the time to create this and thank you for showing such a real approach to what it’s like to learn animation. you showed us that it takes a lot of time but with enough effort you can get there and that sparked a lot of inspiration and motivation for me! love it!

This is so cool! I have friends who are learning to animate and seeing their amazing projects make animation seem like a really daunting skill to start learning, but this video broke it down really well and helped it seem like a lot less of an impossible thing to do. Thanks, great video :))

9:48 I love how you can tell what site they're referencing just by the layout and the colour scheme.

It was just about perfect time I got back to this channel and was rewatching its old videos lately. I'm so glad I'm finally going to see new stuff.

You're absolute life savers. I've been struggling on how to start on an animation project for school and this just puts it all in a way I can understand. Thank you so much!!!

You the man Brent! Always were. Good thing I've grown less envious in my older years, or I'd be ripping my hair out wishing I could do what you've been able to accomplish. Glad to see the success you've attained!

Excellent! I was thinking of starting animation but actually had no idea how to get started, this is going to be aawesome :D

this video couldn’t have come at a better time. i’m a highschool student looking to get back at animation again, but i forgot my old methods and my attempts have just been so overwhelming- i just didn’t know where to start. this video is genuinely so helpful. thank you guys for squeezing a ton of knowledge into a free-to-watch 16 minute video, it means so much

The amount of incredibly tedious work that goes into animating is beyond mind blowing. You guys are extraordinary! Thank you for this insightful education on the topic. Wow!!!

I appreciate the quality and production of your videos. Their presence may be sporadic but I appreciate them like a fine wine!

The only pro of finding this channel late was not waiting for this video for as long as other people here. Btw, A complete animation guide? LETSSSS GOOOOOO!!!

im so glad you didnt sugarcoat the animation process, especially showing at 15:19 theres a lot more personal practice that goes into it. thanks for creating these videos in your free time BaM!

Thank you for making this because you actually broke down the stuff that you need to animate in a way that was quick but also very informative way that makes it easier to understand unlike other people

I learned so much from this video and now i am more confident as my animation skills continue to improve. Thank you so much guys

You guys have no idea how excited I get whenever I see you've uploaded a new video. Whenever I've tried to do frame by frame animations I'd get discouraged by the fact it takes too long, and I always thought I was too slow. Knowing that you guys, professional animators took MONTHS to do this loop makes me realize this is just how hard animation actually is.

I had a class at Santa Barbara City College by a former Disney animator. Learning to animate this way, i.e. traditionally, is very useful even when you move on to CG or rigged animation. Look at Into The Spider-verse. It’s a CG film but it looks like a 2D one because it has all of these principles in it

ooooh god thats the first video on yt that talks about animation properly!!!!!! I always look for it andd FINALLYYYYY im so happy, ur guys r awesome!!!

I have watched many videos about animation but I've always been really confused about in-between frames. This broke it down in such a simple way thank you very much for creating this!

The tracing part legit blows my mind, no wonder why my animation looks off-model to my character. Thank you so much!!

The cat with 3D glasses is vibing around like a pro dancer he is and he's loving it.

Thank you guys for giving so many of us the motivation & free guidance to bring our ideas to life!! Without videos like this a lot more ppl would quit out of frustration before really starting. 🤘🤝

The most satisfying feeling is when you get a smooth movement after perfecting it 😌

I am starting on Animate and so far you are the only ones who take the time to explain it and not make it boring, we definitely need more videos like this, thank you 4 this

This is awesome! It’s a great feeling to finally see the animation you worked so hard on come to life. I made a dinky little animation for the first time yesterday and it was one of the most tedious and frustrating things ever. But I powered through it and seeing it complete was amazing c:

I’ve been making a bug animation project recently, but all the frames looked so choppy and smooth like how Imagined it. Your videos literally helped me improve! I know I still have a TON of years to keep improving but it’s nice to know that I learned the basics. Thank you so much for making this :D

This was such an informative video to watch, absolutely makes me want to give animation another go. Smear frames + squash and stretch seem super fun and I'd love see what I can do with it in my on work. Also! Haven, the person who sent in the original character design, is SUPER talented. I'd 100% recommend checking her out. Her art is just fantastic, as is she!

Oh my goodness I am SO happy you’re finally back. I missed this you guys so much and I can’t wait for the premiere of this video!

You guys are the most professional and entertaining KZfaq animation tutors

I did not expect the animation to actually take months. Well done guys

What an awesome overview of the entire animation process! 😀 Really impressive how you managed to fit so many explanations and examples into just 16 minutes. 😀

And when the world needed them the most, they returned!!! (You have no idea how much I wanted to say this 😭) The best art school on the internet is back in the session!

I’m impressed! Have to animate in my studies next semester and never done it before. I guess I just start trying to draw some movements right now :D thanks so much!

TY and also the background paintings, the top left one I insta-recognised as me Mum had that one (and I think she still has) when I was growing up. Whew. blast from the past.

I love this channel so much I can't even put it in words.

I love this episode. Ya'll know I'm not an animator, but I've learned so many animation concepts, and techniques, so now I can watch shows and identify when they're being used.

You answered every question I had when I struggled animating thank you so much 😭 it looks so clean and beautiful, I hope I can reach this level some day:)

This is very very humbling. Thank you folks for the insight ! I'll never look at any animation with bored eyes ever.

really needed this video, I took a 2 year animation course but haven't animated in about 2 years also and when I tried again I was making all those mistakes you guys mentioned, I reall gotta face that I forgot the fundamentals and gotta relearn and practice them :")

A lot of this I’ve never thought about. This really helps a lot, and makes it sound a LOT put like this. Not easy, but definitely helps enough that it’ll feel a lot easier.

THANK YOU!!!! This was so helpful I am in my thesis year of architecture school, and I've been trying to figure out how to convey my story graphically. Even thinking about drawing movement was so daunting, but after watching this have some courage!!!!!!!

i love that cat dance animation at the beginning, i still have this vid bookmarked and love to come back to who helped me the most to understand these concepts, love you guys

Everything about this video is so simplified it's brilliant. You guys somehow explain these concepts in the perfect way, with diagrams to help our understanding

This is amazing! I've been looking for some animation tips and things like that, and this helps a lot! Can't wait to see the next video! :D

thought you guys were done with this channel,,,,glad you finally back with new vid, 🎉

I've watched individual tutorials of all these points (easing, anticipation, inbetweening/drawing key points etc) it's nice to have all the info in one condensed video, and it didn't even lose any quality. Great video. Very easy to understand and not too overwhelming. Thank you! Love the cat!

Can you guys make a playlist with all your Animation Tips? This is such an incredible video, and would love to watch a series of these. For some reason, listening to how you two explain it feels chill and relaxing. Please do more!

THANK YOU FOR THIS. This'll really help me out, you guys are some of the only people that explain things clearly!!

I've watched some videos explaining how to start animation, and they didn't help that much. BUT this video, i got something out of it, and i'm grateful for that!!

I'm really into 2d animation so this channel is my favorite one ❤️

This is the only tutorial video I’ve watched that actually made sense to me. Thank you so much

Me and my cousin are making a animation show and he sent me this, ought to thank him 4 that

This video is so good, and is now one of my fave animation tutorials behind Alan Becker’s 12 principles of animation! I’ve made some small animations like a goo jumping (basically a ball bouncing but I added eyes-) and a cat loaf with just the tail moving and an ear flicking. I guess now I follow what you said about doing other small practices and build up to a walking cycle, thank you! I’m also doing an animatic, since I figured it would be good practice with less pressure to make everything clean. My brain needs my imaginings to be brought to life, but as a beginner, I dont want to immediately jump into clean animation that lasts a whole song and get burnt out. I tried that years ago and yes, it’s now sitting in my folders gathering dust once I got tired

Bro I've been searching for ever and you guys are the only one who has actually explained it on a level even an infant could understand. Tysm for the information keep it up

As an animator with little experience, these really help!

I quite literally took notes and drew out the animation processes of some of this so I could learn and study this. Thank you for the tutorial even if I’m definitely not 2 years late.

You’ve inspired me! Working on my ball bounce and having fun with it, thanks for making this video, I never thought I could do this but you made it seem approachable. Thanks so much

The film wolfwalkers has inspired me to learn animation and improve my drawing, I'm rather inexperienced but very keen on learning a similar art style. It'll be a long journey but a fun one :)

The return of the Kings :D

i absolutely love the way u guys explain all the steps. amazing job

This is the best video about animation I've seen. Thank you so much!

I literally started crying. I’ve been animating for…two years? And I didn’t know ANYTHING. I didn’t know about arcs, layers, copy pasting drawings, stick figures, basically everything you did in this video. I can’t thank you ENOUGH.

" we are youtube idiots with a camera, we have no time for that " This sentence make me laught so hard ! Thanks for your incredible channel guys! So helpful and fun!

I love the ending, as for a while, I noticed that I wasn’t going to go anywhere just by studying how to do something a certain way. I actually HAD to do it! Crazy when put into words, but getting good is a lot more than seeing, but actually experiencing what your doing

Thanks so much, this has helped my channel a good bit!😁😁😁😁

I just started animating with smear frames and this really helped. Thx! My way of practicing animation is posting it as videos so my subscribers can tell me anything about the animation. Then there I am at home, imagining some more animations and stuff, also practicing my imaginative movement off my couch. I jump off it bc its bouncy enough for a jump movement :D But this video can actually help me in what my animation looks like. I was already practicing smear frames on my newest animation that i'm still making. I can't wait for y'all to see it! 58 frames on the animation so far, using 6fps lets my eyes develop to what I'm seeing. I might practice better fps soon, and yeah. I was also trying to do anticipation for my smear frames too. My smear frames usually have a little anticipation and mostly just squash and stretch animation, sometimes I use actual smear frames.

Do not attempt any form of animation until you do a ball bounce. Oh gosh I think I messed up oops well I'm just going to compare with my living island meme I didn't do anything but when I posted my tests I did the sketch and a ball bounce so progress!