From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Animating on paper

Animating on paper

From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Animating on paper

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- [Instructor] So traditional animation involves drawing a series of key frames on paper. And then you stack the paper pages on a pegboard and you begin rolling them. So the process looks something like that. And the flipping, if you do it fast enough, you can more or less get the impression of physical motion. So each key frame drawing is circled and they often contain a timing chart. And the timing chart instructs the assistant and the in-betweener about the spacing of the breakdown drawings and the in-between drawings. And these timing charts, they're usually drawn on the upper right side of the page. So here are some examples, I've shown you these in the previous movie, of timing charts with corresponding animations to show the effect. And I've rotated these charts to their horizontals for clarity, it's easier to read. Here are more examples. And in this case, the timing of the keys has been changed as well as the…

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