I studied animation in college and struggled a lot. These videos have somehow filled in a lot of the gaps that I feel like I missed and are genuinely making me excited to start animating again. Thank you for this!
Oh I'm really glad! I think part of the reason I wanted to make this series was because I also struggled with how animation was taught at university and wnated to try a different way of approaching it. I'm glad you found it useful :)
@@AlexGriggAnimationit’s not just in animation, it seems like something that’s a problem within all visual arts departments. I think the university/college system is detrimental to teaching the visual arts. One artist I knew that used to be a painting professor went so far as to say that you can’t teach people to paint at a high level within the university system. Even the professors have too many obligations and deadlines with too many students to grade. Often professors don’t have time to deeply dive into concepts and practices. Students get pushed through the ringer and it’s not to their benefit. There’s got to be a better way. It makes me sad for all the visual creatives that seek education in that system.
Sometimes I think going to school for artistic things can kind of hinder us. I will become discouraged and start to resent things if I am pushed on a deadline on projects I dont understand.
@@cmygamelifeyou are so right, at the end of every year I’m so burnt out I want nothing to do with art, thank God for summer, because it gave me time to rediscover my passions. The deadlines and all the pressure really quells the creative flame.
This series is brilliant, Alex. Massive amounts of information so clearly conveyed in such a concise and entertaining manner. You’re putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into these and I hope you’re rewarded as much as the viewer!
I know this is video on animation, but it was also an amazing example of science communication, when explaining the physics behind motion, you made sure you did not use any physics jargon, nor any complicated maths to demonstrate Newtons laws of motion. This has really inspired me to take the medium of animation to communicate other topics in physics. You are a legend! 👍
This is mind blowing to me. Your execution, the script, the editing and just the overall content is amazing. It takes me around 3 weeks to make a two minute video and that’s with cutting corners. This must have taken you months to make! Keep it up! You will be at 100k subs next year. 🎉
Thank you for these lessons! The way you explain basic moments is so clear and understandable. And also the lessons are so beautifully made, it's a pleasure to watch them. I can't wait for the next lesson!
This video was so so helpful! I love scientific explanantions, they help. me understand better and go really in depth! Thank you for this, I owe my progress in animation to you!
I really love this channel, to the point with great info for people who wanna get into animation. I would really love a video of different types of workflow that animators usually go by. like drafting, planning ect. keep up the good work! looking forward to more videos!
Im enjoying a lot the way you explain all of this content! I'm re-learning animation and the way you explain both in words as well as visually makes me feel less anxious about the whole process. THANK U!
So nice again Alex! Spacing is really hard to break down in an easy understandable way. I too found the analytical/scienc-y way the simplest and most understandable. Really recommend the homework exercises, doing these small isolated exercises really helps each individual principle to sink in before you combine all of them into sth. more complex. Lovely work Alex!
Would be nice if animation software could add simple simulation markers to a canvas. Could be controlled by simply dragging and setting relative (multiple) force vectors in the direction of ones liking. Add a acceleration slider (+-) and we'd be golden. Shouldn't be to performance hungry, as the math is pretty simple.
So glad I found this channel. Really easy to understand lessons with an appealing style. Bingeing these for some personal animation projects for my future music releases (thanks to procreate dreams).
It takes practice, but usually animators break down their subject into simple shapes that they use as a guide (for example- a ball or a box). I think of these shapes a bit like a water balloon because unlike a balloon full of air water balloons don't change volume when you apply force to them, they just change shape. I still struggle with volumes though!
Hi!, I loved this video, I'm an ameteur and its very informative :,) but I have questions, how do you make something shake or vibrate, everytime I try to shake my animation for shock sake It looks really bad and I don't know how to fix it, if someone can give me some idea of how to fix that it would be appreciated 🥰
Thanks for this amazing series. On a slightly different note: what is the project/animation you show at 05:37? I'd be curious to see the whole piece if available somewhere!!
Man, I'd love to help you translate and VO them in Spanish because I'd LOVE to show them to my kids. I have decent audio equipment and I can even help you translate the animations.
I'd LOVE that. French and Spanish language versions are both things I'd love to pursue if I figure out a way to raise some money in the future. I'd also like to do Australian Sign Language, and Japanese. The hardest bit is figuring out how to change the text on screen, because many times I've hand animated it.... maybe there's a way around that though.
@@SaChInRaJpUt-pc7wp Not all people like reading captions. Even more so when it comes to instructional videos like these. It's much better to have everything in the video in a the viewer's native language. This partial language barrier plays a large role in pushing me away from Domestica's courses, since I don't understand Spanish. This is specifically my preference for instructional content, as opposed to entertainment, where I'd prefer hearing the original language, since that is part of the original performance made by the actors.
ok ok, but look... Let's say that I'm animating on 3's at 24 FPS, if I want to create a 10 seconds animation, I need in total 240 poses. How does this works exactly ??? Like, if I'm posing my characters every 3 frames, the spacing will happen between these frames ??? I'm getting really confused because I'm not very good at managing speed in animation because I'm always posing every 3 frames, but them the speed doesn't change and I get confused because if I want to animate on 3's I can't put spacing between those and I start to freak out PLS HELP!!!! Ps: I don't know if it makes sense, if it doesn't, sorry :/
Oh interesting question! If you're animating on 3s and animating 10 seconds you'll only have 80 poses/frames. You won't put inbetweens between those because it would mean you would be animating on ones. Essentially you'd be animating at 8frames per second. Does that make sense?
@@AlexGriggAnimation so does that means my main poses will be at 8 frames, but when it comes to spacing, it will be 3 frames ?? The space between each pose is 8 frames?
Hey Brian, there are two things at play here in the question that you asked. Frames and drawings. For animating in 3s, it means each drawing is held for 3 frames, which implies you have 8 drawings per second (or per 24 frames). As for choosing the spacing of the poses, that basically means choosing the spacing of each drawing and not the frames on the timeline. For example, let's say I want to animate a car starting it's engine and moving ahead on 3s at 24fps. For my first frame, the car is static. This drawing is held for 3 frames. On the 4th frame, I change the position of the car slightly (which means, it's a new pose for the car). This drawing is again held for three frames. So on the 7th frame, I again change the position of the car a little, but this time I make the distance between the drawing on frame 7 and frame 4 more than the distance between the drawings on frame 4 and frame 1. This means my car is accelerating. So even though the frames on the timeline are evenly spaced (in this case, each drawing is held for 3 frames), the actual distance between each drawing changes, which is what Alex was saying in his video. I really hope I could help and didn't confuse you further.
Ah! I think I understand now. Yes, Spacing only refers to screen space, not the distance between keys in the timeline. In retrospect I should have been clearer about that during the lesson. I cover it in detail in class two though so hopefully there's some helpful info in that vid.
I studied animation in college and struggled a lot. These videos have somehow filled in a lot of the gaps that I feel like I missed and are genuinely making me excited to start animating again. Thank you for this!
Oh I'm really glad! I think part of the reason I wanted to make this series was because I also struggled with how animation was taught at university and wnated to try a different way of approaching it. I'm glad you found it useful :)
@@AlexGriggAnimation These have been wonderfully useful and definitely have helped making animation feel more accessible!
@@AlexGriggAnimationit’s not just in animation, it seems like something that’s a problem within all visual arts departments. I think the university/college system is detrimental to teaching the visual arts. One artist I knew that used to be a painting professor went so far as to say that you can’t teach people to paint at a high level within the university system. Even the professors have too many obligations and deadlines with too many students to grade. Often professors don’t have time to deeply dive into concepts and practices. Students get pushed through the ringer and it’s not to their benefit. There’s got to be a better way.
It makes me sad for all the visual creatives that seek education in that system.
Sometimes I think going to school for artistic things can kind of hinder us. I will become discouraged and start to resent things if I am pushed on a deadline on projects I dont understand.
@@cmygamelifeyou are so right, at the end of every year I’m so burnt out I want nothing to do with art, thank God for summer, because it gave me time to rediscover my passions. The deadlines and all the pressure really quells the creative flame.
This series is brilliant, Alex. Massive amounts of information so clearly conveyed in such a concise and entertaining manner. You’re putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into these and I hope you’re rewarded as much as the viewer!
Hey thanks Greg :)
These are the best animation lessons on RUclips. Please keep it up
Finally, an animation tutorial that isn't advertising the animation program
I know this is video on animation, but it was also an amazing example of science communication, when explaining the physics behind motion, you made sure you did not use any physics jargon, nor any complicated maths to demonstrate Newtons laws of motion. This has really inspired me to take the medium of animation to communicate other topics in physics. You are a legend! 👍
As a beginner in animation, I have learned quite a lot in this video. Subscribed.
Hey thanks Joe
Same
THE ANIMATION QUALITY!!! Even in its simplicity.....is splendid!
These video lessons are CRAZY appealing.
This is mind blowing to me. Your execution, the script, the editing and just the overall content is amazing. It takes me around 3 weeks to make a two minute video and that’s with cutting corners. This must have taken you months to make!
Keep it up! You will be at 100k subs next year. 🎉
man i love this channel so much , youre a blessing
this is like a fun tedtalk but specifically on animation. you're a godsend
Thank you for being such a great teacher I'm loving this series a lot!!
Thank you for these lessons! The way you explain basic moments is so clear and understandable. And also the lessons are so beautifully made, it's a pleasure to watch them. I can't wait for the next lesson!
Thank you so much, Alex! Your videos are priceless!💙💛
it felt like watching headspace.. so relaxing!
Haha I'm glad!
cant wait for more vids thank you so much
Me too!
This is fantastic. I have always wanted to learn how to animate. Your style of teaching is very informative and easy to follow. Thanks so much!
Wow, I’ve watched tons of tutorials on animation and this is the most clear and interesting serie.
Thank you and please keep making videos. ❤
You seriously make some of the best content on youtube
wow, what a GEM!
love that i found this channel today
thank you, you've been very helpful. waiting for your new videos
I'm learning to animate on the School of RUclips and these vids are epic. Thank you 😭
Thank's a lot, one of the best and simple understanding animation theory
Another fantastic lesson Alex! Loving this series so far, superb work!
No way I finally found a video explaining animation with physics!
The two stuff I _love_
Thank you!
You are doing great job teaching animation here this way. Keep on making more videos. Now I can finally learn
A clear and concise tutorial. Thank you!
Thanks!
Masterpieces, all of them
I just looked at the likes and realized this is UNDERRATED. This masterpiece is to amazing to not have a million likes
your channel is a blessing
This video was so so helpful!
I love scientific explanantions, they help.
me understand better and go really in depth!
Thank you for this, I owe my progress in animation to you!
I really love this channel, to the point with great info for people who wanna get into animation. I would really love a video of different types of workflow that animators usually go by. like drafting, planning ect.
keep up the good work! looking forward to more videos!
Awesome video ! Your videos really helped me to finally understand animation. Thanks a lot Alex for sharing your knowledge !
I'm really glad I could help :)
Really loving this. Thank you for this.
This is amazing thank you so much for your work 🙏
This video really makes alot of sense and helps me understand spacing of my jittery animation
This was great! Thank you
Awesome explanation Alex, thanks a lot, really practical fro beginners and anyone who wants to learn animation :D
This is very helpful to start animation 🙏
Struggling For Senior High School Learning but the video I watch is easily understanding ❤
I love all the videos so far, they are awesome. Thank you so much for sharing
Im enjoying a lot the way you explain all of this content! I'm re-learning animation and the way you explain both in words as well as visually makes me feel less anxious about the whole process. THANK U!
SO cool to hear :)
God bless! Prayer here when wanted and thank you for this!
I am still my thoughts on tools and concentrating on basics thankyou
Very enjoyable and quite inspiring. Thanks
So nice again Alex! Spacing is really hard to break down in an easy understandable way. I too found the analytical/scienc-y way the simplest and most understandable. Really recommend the homework exercises, doing these small isolated exercises really helps each individual principle to sink in before you combine all of them into sth. more complex. Lovely work Alex!
This is amazing! Keep it up man!
This was AWESOME 👏🏻 🤩👌🏻
Thank you Mary :)
Your every word in your videos is worthy for me
Thanks for making such great videos❤
WOW!!!! This is so easy to understand! Million thanks, genius! Subscribed!!!!
sooooooooooo unbelievably helpful, tysm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brilliant!!!!!! CONGRATS.
Would be nice if animation software could add simple simulation markers to a canvas. Could be controlled by simply dragging and setting relative (multiple) force vectors in the direction of ones liking. Add a acceleration slider (+-) and we'd be golden.
Shouldn't be to performance hungry, as the math is pretty simple.
Aaaa working on an animation commission, such a life saver. I was just wondering how to do this!!
You are killing it with these m8
Love how you gave us homework
These videos are great!
So glad I found this channel. Really easy to understand lessons with an appealing style. Bingeing these for some personal animation projects for my future music releases (thanks to procreate dreams).
ur my hero
Fantastic, really well produced! Love this series!
fantastic
Great content! Appreciate you putting in the time to create this for us!
Love it!
I could eat this tutorial.
alex thank yo so musch
Very good👍
man your visual are awesome
love it
Master!
Super Alex! Great video and content ;)
Thanks mate 🙏
Thank you very much!
Thanks pal, it will really help me ;)
I wish you had a full course on 2d animation with adobe animate
Man u really gonna make me an animator I'll show u my animation when I master this skill. Bless me sensai (in Japanese teacher) (learnt from anime😅)
So early, loving the series so far :)
I love these videos, how I would love them to have subtitles in Spanish, because I speak Spanish, but I have to translate comments to fit in HAHA
Thanks!
Could you please explain how you did the hand drawn animations of the car and man pushing the stone etc?
thx!!!!!!!!!!
Damn good content
You’re the bessssssst
amazing!!! ❤❤
will you havee videoo aboutt how to improve your solidd drawinggg ??? , btww love this video thanks for makingg thiss videoo 🤩
Best thing ever
Thanks :)
I did it!!!! :'D
Thank you for the video and i have a basic question, how to maintain volume of an object while squash and stretch
It takes practice, but usually animators break down their subject into simple shapes that they use as a guide (for example- a ball or a box). I think of these shapes a bit like a water balloon because unlike a balloon full of air water balloons don't change volume when you apply force to them, they just change shape.
I still struggle with volumes though!
Hi!, I loved this video, I'm an ameteur and its very informative :,) but I have questions, how do you make something shake or vibrate, everytime I try to shake my animation for shock sake It looks really bad and I don't know how to fix it, if someone can give me some idea of how to fix that it would be appreciated 🥰
Thanks for this amazing series.
On a slightly different note: what is the project/animation you show at 05:37? I'd be curious to see the whole piece if available somewhere!!
Thanks! this was one of my loopdeloop projects. You can check it out here www.alexgrigg.com/portfolio/tower-block-loopdeloop
@@AlexGriggAnimation Oh, thanks a lot :) It was already a "like" in my Vimeo 👏
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I love the cyclist
Bro with your advice i animate character dance animation own my own 😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Which is the best and easy software to use...plz help.....and it would be very nice if it's free
Man, I'd love to help you translate and VO them in Spanish because I'd LOVE to show them to my kids. I have decent audio equipment and I can even help you translate the animations.
I'd LOVE that. French and Spanish language versions are both things I'd love to pursue if I figure out a way to raise some money in the future. I'd also like to do Australian Sign Language, and Japanese. The hardest bit is figuring out how to change the text on screen, because many times I've hand animated it.... maybe there's a way around that though.
@@AlexGriggAnimation why to change text on screen you can simply use captions on RUclips to write in desired language
@@SaChInRaJpUt-pc7wp Not all people like reading captions. Even more so when it comes to instructional videos like these. It's much better to have everything in the video in a the viewer's native language.
This partial language barrier plays a large role in pushing me away from Domestica's courses, since I don't understand Spanish.
This is specifically my preference for instructional content, as opposed to entertainment, where I'd prefer hearing the original language, since that is part of the original performance made by the actors.
@@AlexGriggAnimation I can hand animate those instances too, I'll DM you on Twitter.
With what software do you animate?
How do you do this meaning which app?
5:32
ok ok, but look... Let's say that I'm animating on 3's at 24 FPS, if I want to create a 10 seconds animation, I need in total 240 poses. How does this works exactly ??? Like, if I'm posing my characters every 3 frames, the spacing will happen between these frames ??? I'm getting really confused because I'm not very good at managing speed in animation because I'm always posing every 3 frames, but them the speed doesn't change and I get confused because if I want to animate on 3's I can't put spacing between those and I start to freak out PLS HELP!!!!
Ps: I don't know if it makes sense, if it doesn't, sorry :/
Oh interesting question! If you're animating on 3s and animating 10 seconds you'll only have 80 poses/frames. You won't put inbetweens between those because it would mean you would be animating on ones. Essentially you'd be animating at 8frames per second.
Does that make sense?
@@AlexGriggAnimation so does that means my main poses will be at 8 frames, but when it comes to spacing, it will be 3 frames ?? The space between each pose is 8 frames?
Hey Brian, there are two things at play here in the question that you asked. Frames and drawings. For animating in 3s, it means each drawing is held for 3 frames, which implies you have 8 drawings per second (or per 24 frames). As for choosing the spacing of the poses, that basically means choosing the spacing of each drawing and not the frames on the timeline. For example, let's say I want to animate a car starting it's engine and moving ahead on 3s at 24fps. For my first frame, the car is static. This drawing is held for 3 frames. On the 4th frame, I change the position of the car slightly (which means, it's a new pose for the car). This drawing is again held for three frames. So on the 7th frame, I again change the position of the car a little, but this time I make the distance between the drawing on frame 7 and frame 4 more than the distance between the drawings on frame 4 and frame 1. This means my car is accelerating. So even though the frames on the timeline are evenly spaced (in this case, each drawing is held for 3 frames), the actual distance between each drawing changes, which is what Alex was saying in his video. I really hope I could help and didn't confuse you further.
Ah! I think I understand now. Yes, Spacing only refers to screen space, not the distance between keys in the timeline. In retrospect I should have been clearer about that during the lesson. I cover it in detail in class two though so hopefully there's some helpful info in that vid.
ok guys, I think I get it. I get confused with spacing and inbetweens. I still don't know exactly how the timeline is supposed to look like.
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4:23 Sisyphus moment