Animation Principles

Abstract

So, you’ve got as far as making your animatic and you’re ready to dive in and bring your animation to life. It is at this stage that many a good film has been ruined by low quality animation. So, in this chapter, we’re going to give you a crash course in traditional animation principles, before transposing these techniques to Flash in the next chapter. This chapter is mainly theoretical, but it is important for you to have a good grasp of traditional animation methods, as these are the origins of the techniques that we use in Flash.