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Traditional animation process

Traditional animation process

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Traditional animation process

- [Instructor] So, traditional animation involves drawing a series of keyframes on paper, and then you stack the paper pages on a peg board, 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 keyframe drawing is circled, and they often contain a timing chart. And the timing chart instructs the assistant and the inbetweener about the spacing of the breakdown drawings and the inbetween 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 the horizontal, you know, 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 spacing of the inbetweens. So these charts are essential in…

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