10:SOLIDITY OF DRAWING

When you do ita animation don't drawing...SCULPTS.
You must do it a solid drawing, remember where the lines are curves and when solid objects overaly on others.(as the nose for example).
We will seeing a correct anatomycal construction for animator in the next tutorials so we can seeing the way to give "solidity" to your characters.

Star Trek Tribute

Before to sleep iìve do it this little tribute to Star Trek..

9:EXAGGERATION

As we have seen in the animation one of the most important thing to remember are to create contrast to helps audience to understand well what's happens.
So exaggerates are one way to create contrast..
If you give a look to sample above the same drawing are exaggerate (left) and normal(right).
The pose on left are clearly hungry..the pose on the right are ambiguos...
Please always exaggerate, a emotion, a pose, an arc...but be carefull, don't exaggerate everything, cause the scene can be reads by audience as "distorce".
Always use your sense of balance.
Balance are the heart of any art.

8:TIMING

Timing are the thing makes difference between a good animation and a bad animation...
You can have good drawings, wonderfull arcs, sweet overlappings..but if you haven't timing, the animation are bad..
Timing are strictly linked to x-sheet and the use of charts...of course slow in and slow out are part of timing.
When i animate i try to imagine a kind of musical rhythm....
music..pause..music...
The pause are important....the pause are everywhere...a music, a sing without pause are flat,boring..try to give rhythm to your animation and you will give life....

SAMPLE OF SECONDARY ACTION

7:SECONDARY ACTIONS

The secondary action as an animation wich are necessary to underlines the primary action.
THE SECONDARY ACTION ARE NOT THE OVERLAPPING AND THE FOLLOW-TROUGH
A character enter in the stage walking and stops (master pose) are very worried... (i think are the singer of a band, before the test for x-factor)
On this pose the animator developped other animations called SECONDARY ACTIONS to increases the mood of the character.
The finger taps nervous on the table...the expression are really in panic.
Usually when i've done the full master animation (without overlapping and secondary action)i taking one more time the animation and on the master pose WHERE I INDICATE SECONDARY ACTION i begin to drawing secondary action (also the moving hold are considered a sort of secondary action but i will talking about...)

SAMPLE ARCS