"Does this work in--" Yes. Yes it does. These techniques are not program specific, they are principles that apply to everything from paper and pen to Blender's grease pencil.

So I sat here and watched the whole video.. Never animated in my life..

Step one: Learn how to draw Step two: make sketch Step three: trace your sketch Step four: get insecurity from flipaclip animatiors

I feel attacked by the very first “point” Edit: I feel attacked by all these points

Finally! Now I know how to animate smoothly! Now I just need to figure out how to draw...

Wait?.. Did i just learn a 4 year animation course in 11 mins?

"step 0: plan your stuff out seriously" Oh man, how many times I tell this to people and they're like "Nah, no need to waste time on this I got EVERYTHING visualised in my head". Then they're stuck not knowing how to transition something or what camera angle to choose almose instantly, chearching for excuses then giving up "because not in artsy mood today"...Planning is a really important step.

when he said give a damn about the time, i thought he'd say not to stay up until 4:36am to finish an animation, and to get rest. still, good advice.

I animate in FlipaClip... I got a hang of it now, thanks for the suggestions, all!

"You wanna animate some grade A anime tidy?" I died

This is one of the best tutorials honestly. Every time whenever I teach someone animation, I send this video and 12 principles by Alan Becker.

"Scrub your animations" Me: *gets sponge and scrubs the screen**

Actually, these 7 tips are valid in 3D animation too. There might be some differences, i.e. with no-motions which tend to look "dead" easier in 3D thant in 2D. But the base cores are quite same.

"Animate in just two goddamn frames" that part made me laugh xD Nice tutorial tho

"How to make smooth animations" Me: *cries in Flipaclip*

Another little tip: don’t expect it to always be perfect! Learn from the mistakes and try again, practice makes better, not perfect 🥰

*Honestly I appreciate you just for using the word ||Inertia||*

oh wow, I've been critiqued, thank yo.

In case anyone wants to easily jump around in this video. 1:10 tip 0 plan your work out before hand 1:30 tip 1 not everything needs to be animated on ones (aka every frame doesn't need to be a new drawing 2:01 tip 2 prioritize your frames 2:35 tip 3 weight 3:09 tip 4 timing 4:11 tip 5 distortion think smear and deformation for fast motion 5:03 tip 6 scrub your animations 5:42 tip 7 you don't need constant motion you need better timing.

Him: **says inertia** Me: "INERTIA IS A PROPERTY OF MATTER"

Some very good points, I'll try to follow these steps next time I animate.

man im so guilty of forgetting to plan my stuff out. i need to keep reminding myself whenever i start something to lay off and let it be rough

I wasn't convinced until "Grade A anime tiddy", now I'm all in.

Me : *looks at my animations* *looks at captain underpants* **Cries**

I’m still trying to figure out how to draw a circle... Why am I here? What is life? *Why is Gamora?*

4:38 Ha. Knowing Zedrin, I wonder what on Earth that would be 4:45 ZEDRIN YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GIVE THE ANSWER Seriously though, nice video. Subbed to your channel because of the flash tutorials you did way back when, and I have yet to be disappointed.

As an aspiring high school animator I live for these kinds of videos. Just treat me like a newborn and give me all the obvious information, I’m sure it’ll soak in eventually. Thank you 🙏

Zedrin: “clip studio pant” Captions:” *studio pain* “

4:44 Okay I got what I needed bye

When using flipaclip i usally use three to 6 differnt frames for a smooth animation, i use 12 frames per sec then I usally copy and paste my end parts 2 then keep the others leading up to it 1 frame and this makes it smooth This all to help some people plz dont get mad

"even on pen and paper" Me: *war flash backs*

never realized that Tom and Jerry get this so goddamn right (golden age at least)

First time seeing him, like him already

This and the twelve principles of animation help alot

Wow. Thank you so, so much! I love every tip you have given! Hopefully, I can start making smooth “not choppy” animations! You’ve given a lot of good advice which honestly, makes me super hyped and inspired! Thanks once again!

Well put explanation. Timing and planning are so damn important! And you have great shapes and posing that flow well from A to B. As much as I rely a lot on timing, I equally rely on the shapes of the inbetweens for clarifying the movement.

Video came out great! Also I sincerely appreciate the critique, I kept looking at my animation and it just wasn't coming out how I wanted, so thanks so much for helping me with the timing man.

I expected this to be another animation tutorial by a Richard Williams flunky but you are actually teaching how to get the most out of economical animation, nice. Subbed.

I'm currently looking into animation on Adobe Animate and i'm trying to pick up new tricks to start a hobby of making stick figure/simple character animation. I'm slowly gaining more understanding of tweening and simple fluids of shapes (Easing in, out, etc.) but I still have a long way to go. However, I've learned even further on how long animation takes! It's crazy that in most cases animators aren't recognized enough as video-gamers. They put in so much effort and they should get the recognition they deserve!

Dude, thanks sooooo much, since I am just learning the basics, making an arm wave was hard. I knew the principals of animation in theory, but your video made me think critically. Because of that, I was able to make the wave look smoother than anything I have ever made before.

discord.gg/Wsq3pNE Btw, for anyone interested, I have a public Discord server. Find out when I'm streaming, share art, find people to play games with, ask me questions, etc. btw while this vid is popular, check out my animation from my webcomic while you're at it :V kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9Sdi9GQncvJfnk.html

Thanks, this really filled in a couple holes I felt I had in my process. Thinking about some of the finer things you mentioned, like working on pieces at a time to prevent wobbling is a huge one to me, will definitely change my process for the better. You got my sub, I hope to see more discussions about animation soon (=

I keep finding you in my recommendations and I appreciate it

I constantly send this video to my friends whenever they are starting animation. Same with 12 principles of animation. These two videos are just the top tutorials on animation not gonna lie.

great video, there are so many people with great art and consistent forms and could be great animators but there big problem is timing, for some reason most people dont plot out timing, i think its because you dont really do that kindof thing in any other art form and is a strange concept to people who have been illustrating and are just starting animation. glad to see someone address that :D good job

Well spoken! I still remember the days that I only worked in 1's and the belief that raising the framerate would help. But when you export 28 fps as 24 fps the frames kinda lag behind a bit and make the overall flow a lot more stiff :,) I think the only thing I struggle with is consistency (sometimes I forget a few features of the character and I can't really fix it in post production) and making believable smear frames.

"If your animation is legible without the frame, it's not a key frame" writing this so it sticks in my memory

The examples at the end went a huge way in showing the importance of timing n frames Thank you so much for this reference!

6:25 *a certain CN show that just got announced needs to know this*

The second I heard his voice, his humor, etc. I subbed as well as liked!

Tip 8 If you're a beginner animator. Begin with circles and stickmans. Practicing distortions will be good with shapes, and practicing different actions and poses will be good with starting with stickmans...

Needless to say I'm gonna be watching this over and over while animating

I love your content, Zedrin, but I simply must point out that studying the 12 Principles of Animation will provide most of what an amateur will need, at least when it comes to understanding the core theory behind the craft. Not to undermine your efforts here, but I think just telling people to do a little research by reminding them that these principles exist is fair and acceptable. Keep up the good work, Zedrin! Your webcomic is really a joy to read!

Nice explanation of the basics! This is why doing stuff like bouncing balls and walk cycles are great for learning timing. I used to study classical animation where you really need to learn it by heart since you cant look at it right away.~~

No matter how good your animation is some like it but some hate it no matter HOW HARD you work on it the hate wont stop

Hello! I’ve been having troubles with frame by frame and animation in general, and this video is really gonna help me once I have the moavation to start or work on a animation! I’m a beginner animator, and to just say beginning is really hard, but my mindset is to have fun and improve! So thank you for this video! It really helped!

Aww man, I used to do all sorts of crazy shitty animations when I was 16 - 17 years old in Flash and it's all coming back to me 😬👌 today I remembered how good just the simple brush tool was in Flash (no other app seems to have that smoothing) but now I just wanna animate again and this time actually learn it. Now I have an incentive as well; I could put these animations into my KZfaq videos or something

“Buttered baby seal” will never be unfunny to me

3:09 Number 4 was something I had fun learning when trying to do my own animations, definitely a good tip. I had known of the idea "Animating on 2's" and used that a basis for when I plugged in my frames. But when I played back the animation it read fine but wasn't as smooth as I thought it would/could be. I messed around with how long each frame stayed out changing some of them to 1s and others even extended to 3s to emphasive some key motions, and before I knew I it my animation was looking a lot smoother and reading just how I imagined it should

dude, very nice video, im not rlly new to drawing but animation is a completely new beast to me, ive been reading the animators survival kit, but this video is an amazing complement to that, thx a bunch :)

I think the key term to remember for animation is to give the “illusion” of movement. Not drawing every single action. Good tips.

When he said "you want to draw grade A anime tiddy?", that hit so hard, I learned to animate

I've looked all around youtube for animations and tutorials for animation but you are super talented.

I just got the Animation Desk app and I found this while looking up how to animate on it. I will be practicing with it and I'll be sure to keep these tips in mind. Thanks for the video! 😊

4:41 whoops indeed

When he said: *Smooth Animation that look like garbage* *i felt that* 😔👌

Thanks for explaining the different timing speeds. I have built multiple css animations and it was a pain attempting to get the right timing function without a proper understanding of what each is for.

I suspected of some stuff in animation on how to do them and finally I got actual answers to exactly what I needed to know, will be hard to since I'm just starting animation but I hope it'll go well

software name?

thank you so much! im trying out animation and this was a great video! (by that i mean it wasnt filled with too much animation and it was a "relatable" way of teaching me the basics) you really deserve more views!

this guy is throwing away everything i know about animation and doing it angrily

Your instructions were well made and made animating simpler I'm now subscribing You deserve this

Hey there, just saw your page on fb, I aint a animator or artist or anything lmao but I do enjoy your videos lol keep it up

And that's what my teacher teach in one semester in 11 minutes

I just love how bold and honest you are about this-

The part where you saw other people's work is incredible. That really helps out. Thank you.

Butter baby seal smoothed, shit guess I'm a sanded man child rough.

"Step 0" - You already lost me >:(

Heya! Just wanted to say I followed the tips here and... holy hell it made a difference! o.o; I redid a small animation, an axe kick, and just the legs alone looked better than my first attempt X'D thanks for the video!

I’ve just started making short animations for my channel to express things more freely and creatively. I don’t know anything ab app to make animations But KZfaq algorithms brought me here for some reason. I wanna learn more ab it. Great tutorial. Thx.

I feel like when it comes down to smoothness and beautiful visuals, I feel like there is a balanced spot somewhere. Just gotta find it.

(A lot of these principles are v helpful when translated to comic illustration and panel continuity, as well as character movement and positioning)

Thank you very much for these tips and make me realize that I have been very unpatient and is just overall not knowing what I was doing when I got into animation. Now I shall make smooth animations when necessary and not occasionally

this is the best animation video on this whole website

OH MY GOD THANK YOU YOU”RE SERIOUSLY HELPING ME! You got a new2 sub ;3

4:44 NOW you've got my attention

Thanks for the tip, Zedrin! You've inspired me to animate.

I've watched this video at least 5 times, it's really useful! Great video!

*You aiming in for that glib smoothness like a buttered, baby seal?* -Zedrin

Zedrin: **gives a tip called: distortion** Calobi Productions: *that's an error*

Thank you! I'm a fairly new animator and really needed to learn about some of this!

Please the sound every time you show what to do is so cute

You didn't mention flipaclip... ;-; OH WELL IMMA USE THOSE TIPS ON FLIPACLIP TOO, THANKS!! :D

Students: We're going to be learning about animation!!! Teacher: Today's class is going to be all about stretch and weight, visualised by this boob. Students: CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES C'MON!!!

Thank you so much! I'm using your ease in/out points as a guide, you're a lifesaver! ;;

Thank you! I was actually making my first animation and thanks to this video it actually looks much better!

RIP flipaclip users

1:07 oh. OOOOH. that's why I get overwhelmed and never get anything finished.

this really helped i feel it was made in that kind of tough love tone so it was really serious to good job

The fact that you were entertaining the entirety of this lesson made me stay and follow along