Learning how to animate a walk cycle is an incredibly tricky - but necessary - aspect of learning how to be an animator. Here, I describe 3 major takeaways from reading a passage from The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams, on tips and guidelines for tackling walk cycle creation. The motion of animation doesn't always follow "realistic" anatomy guidelines. That is to say, to create a smoother, more "realistic" flow in animation cycles, it might benefit the animator m

"McLeod discusses what he calls the "iconic" nature of comics, specifically in terms of the human face. What does he mean by this, and...

Robo-Ky is a playable character from the Guilty Gear fighting game series, and one of my absolute favorite fighting game characters,...

In the end, I wound up greatly reducing my scope for this animation, due to two factors: the limitations of puppet pinning, and realizing...

Decided to make a new character - Arnold Francis Ricardo (a slime-based, fish-like creature that can stretch his body and can swap easily...

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The short animation Lapsus, created by Pablo Zaramella, excels at playing around with the 2D animation medium, and its use of a...

My WIP is very bare-bones, as I need to add more shapes and general animation. For now, I've animated the creature's neck and jaw, along...

So far in my project, I have animated the robot's eyes and mouth, and the general flow of the lava from its bucket, and illustrated the...

Don Hertzfeldt has an interesting use of morbid humor in his work, creating a surprisingly dark animation (for the style it is drawn in)...

Arcs as an animation principle are used to make fast movement and rotations appear more realistic, or to emphasize weight and gravity....