Hey great animation technique never goes out of style. :D Glad you enjoyed the video!

+GameDev Now Wow, thanks! :D So nice to hear, I feel honored.

EXACTLY!

yes absolutely!

So as my peen lmao 🤣😂😂

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Thank you for your kind comment!

Awesome! I am happy to help. :) Good luck for your studies! If you have any questions or a topic you would like to hear more about, don't hesitate to ask.

You are absolutely right of course! Thank you for pointing this out. I actually got taught this wrong myself and must have overlooked it since. 😨 I guess, I need to make a video about this now. Thanks again, I appreciate the correction!

I'm all for the other way. Ease into an action, Ease out of eat slowly. :)

I actually came in here looking to see if anyone had pointed this out and you had. I love Ferdinand and his tutorials so I don't doubt for a second that he knows what he's talking about. But he gave the explanation himself below here. 😊

Hey Paul, Growing up here in California, & having worked in N. Hollywood/Burbank, plus San Francisco, I can tell you that pro animators use BOTH terms and no one has the definitive final word on this point. You can ease into an action, then ease out of it ( that's what I prefer). But you can also ease out of a pose, and ease into another pose. Whichever works.

@@tonyclaar8567 Yeah, I'm far from an experienced animator - I'm entirely self taught - but I definitely feel the way you're explaining it is more natural sounding. That's something that's always confused me, because easing OUT at the beginning of an action just doesn't feel right to me. It seems you would be easing INTO the action and then easing out at the end, just as you said.

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for your positive comment :)

That's so great to hear :D Thank you very much.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you :D Do you mean offset keys for different body parts?

yes!!!! =D

It's so motivating to read your positive comment. Thank you very much! :D Yes, we would love to do more Master Studies (and Extra Credit is a one of my favorite channels by the way). My problem is that I always trail off when I analyze. I have an insane 10 page script looking at a tiny scene in Kung Fu Panda 2 shelved somewhere. And then there are some copyright restrictions that are always annoying to navigate around. But I will keep it in mind! There is so much great stuff to learn from and admire... :)

These damn copyrights... ^^ Well, I hope you'll manage to work around the details and share that with us, I can't wait to see it :)

Great to hear this video helped you. :) Thanks for your comment! Wow, I didn't notice that the picture was flipped and I cut these things for hours. Before every shooting I battle with the webcam settings in OBS... must have happened there somewhere. Hmm, I should figure out which one is the correct setting x)

+Patch Toons Yes, that is correct. Thank you for jumping in with your reply :)

Thanks...strangely after you mentioned it I'm seing toon boom harmony ads here on youtube lol

I appreciate your kind words! Thank you :) Yes, it's Toon Boom Harmony. It's my favorite animation program for 2D vector graphic and puppet rigging (I find Flash/Animate far more restrictive and buggy). There are so many functions that speed up coloring and inking a lot. However, the bitmap brushes are not too advanced yet... What software are you using?

AnimatorIslandTV Mostly now I use Blender and iClone (3D apps) as I enjoying making a characters once then just worry about animating it. Also, you can use mocaps and tons of free props sold me on the 3D but still I keep it looking 2D toon. When I was still doing vector animation I would use Anime Studio Pro, its only failing is not using traditional vector Bezier curves but has amazing puppet rigging and scripting control plus every feature Harmony has.

Blender is awesome! Unbelievable that such a powerful software is open source. And I saw on your channel that you seem to be able to control the toon look quite well. Back when I tried it like ten years ago the outline and shadow borders wiggled far too much. I always wanted to try Anime Studio Pro, because I heard a lot of good things about it (especially for quick and dirty rig projects).

The auto toon lines still lack of refinement to this day. I use instead backface culling to make lines. Imagine a blue ball with a slightly bigger black one at the same location that only its inside walls are visible thus no matter how you view it looks like a blue ball with a black line around it.

+Dragon Skunk Ah nice technique! I remember it from toon looking games... never thought about using it for rendered material. So simple, but effective. Thanks for sharing your approach!

You are correct. Ease out is at the start, ease in at the end of the motion. I got this wrong in some of my older videos.

AnimatorIslandTV Lol. Ok

They are in between two keyframes but they are more important than normal inbetweens, because they define the path of the motion. They also give you information about which parts are leading the action. Normal inbetweens just "follow" these instructions.

That's a very interesting discussion that I have heard many different takes on. Even the Animator's Survival Kit is very indecisive about this. Williams first calls the middle position of a pendulum (p. 49), the middle of a headturn (p. 89) and the highs of a walk a 'breakdown'. He also calls overshoots breakdowns (e.g. p. 292). If we take the definition of an extreme (namely the extreme point of a motion before it changes direction) there is barely anything that is not an extreme. Some body part or axis is always changing direction - which happens frequently in those poses that people refer to as breakdowns. As it's very hard to solve this on a definition basis I prefer to teach what matters to the workflow: nobody forgets to define the keys; most people remember anticipation and overshoot as the most important extremes - but what even pros have to battle with is a weak middle position. That's why I think the passing inbetween or extreme often times both deserve to be called breakdown. And yes, technically it often becomes an extreme by definition. But then you can go in between those two poses and pretty much anything you can do to make it more interesting (snapping joint, pushing the arc) will also lift it to become an extreme. Many animators I know and worked with put in the keys first, extremes next and then deal with the middle between those keyframes and call them breakdown - regardless if those are passing inbetweens or extremes. How do you define extremes vs breakdowns?

@@AnimatorIsland first off thanks a lot for the video as it sheds light to something that often times are obscured in understanding from a beginner standpoint. I'm sure it will help lot of people trying to get into this amazing profession and hopefully apply it on both 2d and 3d animation as the core of the fundamentals has been the case since the 9 old man and way before them. Ok back to the topic and thank you for such an answer, and the definition of what's extreme or the breakdown comes down to what the object is that's being animated. You are right regarding the challenging aspect of the definition in the case of the Whip, any keyframe in-between those two key poses can be defined as extreme as it's not a static object, it moves and is very flexible, changing direction all the time so hence why i pointed out it being the extreme key, although the case will be different when animating semi-static objects or characters when not all the parts are flexible as our Whip here. Another thing with the 3d as well where according to Alex Williams, son of Richard points out that in 3D (Maya or any) you can pretty much ignore breakdowns and inbeetweens and the computer does it for you for free.

This video is about breakdowns. Favoring and easing is a whole different topic that I should cover in another video soon 🤔 Or am I misunderstanding your comment? What exactly is your question or criticism? :)

I should have said more. Great video. You mentioned the word without defining it too much and I had to look up its animation meaning. Minus 1. You still get a 99 percent.

Thanks for pointing it out and the still generous score! 😊 I will try to fit in little definitions for everything, but sometimes I might overlook some terms that I've gotten used to.