Lately I'm so interested with classical animation. With so many animation software nowadays, less and less people are still doing classical in my country. The reason is simply because it's the most basic form of animation and it's the hardest to master. Requires tons of effort and years of training. But thats definetely why it's fun to challenge.
If you don't know what is called classical animation, it is an animation that is done frame by frame without involving any motion or shape tweening from any digital software. Some people only call it classical if it is done manually by hand drawing on papers. But with the existence of Wacom, we can actually draw frame by frame directly on a software and I still prefer to call it classical animation.
What I want to share today is a great lecture (in three parts) by Glen Keane on his approach to animating a scene. You can learn so much by just "looking over the shoulder" of these great animators as they animate.
Look at how he did the antics (anticipation) strongly, it's not just about getting off the chair. He's actually applying all those 12 principles of animation on this one simple scene. Count how many frames he take in this movement, learn the gesture, and then try to do the same animation for practice. Remember, it's how much you pay attention to little details that differs an 'OK' animator with a GREAT animator. You'll know what that means when you have experienced it.
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