From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Animation

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Using staging to focus the viewer's attention

Using staging to focus the viewer's attention

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Using staging to focus the viewer's attention

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- [Instructor] The next animation principle we'll look at is staging. If you want to follow along, we're in 02_03StagingAEP, if you have access to the exercise files, you can open that and follow along with us. So staging your animation is also referred to as setting the scene, and it involves attracting the viewer's attention and focusing it on a particular subject or area of the screen before the action takes place. You'll see here I've got quite a complicated composition and it has the word staging in it. As I said before, I ask my students to animate words that I give them, and sometimes I give them the principles of animation, like staging, anticipation, and ask them to animate them. And of course, I wouldn't ask them to do anything I don't want to do myself, so I've created this little animation here, which shows the principle of staging. So if we have a look at it first, you'll see a spotlight comes on, telling us something's about to happen, the curtains open, and then we have…

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