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Thank you for this , this was deeply needed , perfectly simplified and to the point and im glad my google , "how to make timing charts " made this video recommended to me
Hi! Glad to know that this video finally helped you understand timing charts. You're so welcome! 🙌 I hope you'll keep on animating. Keep going! Keep learning and keep animating 😁
I tried animation in the past, frame by frame and it's really demotivating when you spend a lot of time on drawing and the end result is bad or not what you hoped for. This video might help me in the future since it motivates me to try again. Thanks!
Hi! I hope you'll try to animate again 😊 Animation can take up a lot of time but it can also feel so fulfilling. It's not for everyone. But if it's your passion, I hope you'll give it another go. Expect the result will be bad. We've all been there but I hope that won't demotivate you because the next try will probably be a little bit better, and the next one after that and so on.
I'm currently doing my own research on the principles of animation as a beginner, and this simple yet very complete guide motivated me to get my pencil, and have fun doing simple animations again. Thank you so much!
I think I read somewhere that timing charts come from actually timing out an action, like on a stop watch. You would act out an action or scene, you would time how long it takes to do the action, and you would mark your poses on the timing chart. Then you would go back through it and mark out the in-betweens. Hence it being called a timing chart instead of spacing chart.
Thank you sooooo much!! After watch a lot of videos about timing charts FINALLY I found one video that explains in a clarity and easy way, I understood everything. As a 2D animator beginner is super useful, right now I will practice with this new knowledge and I will recommend this video too
Oh my gosh. I've finally understood this. I stopped using timing charts because I hot a feeling I didn't understand it. As I watched the video I quickly did a simple animation using what I have learnt and I got it. My main issue was confusing it as "timing" chart instead of a "spacing chart."
Thank you so much for making this video, its really opened my eyes to how i can make animating easier since it always felt impossible to me. I’ll forever use this video as a guide for timing and spacing.
I never started animation because I didn’t understand anything I was watching or reading about. But I might try again after this video. I’m gonna go watch your other stuff now. Instant subscribe!
Your video might be the clearest and easy-to-understand animation tutorial I've ever seen. Recently I didn't really have a clear depiction of the breakdown and it made me struggle for a while until you showed a jumping animation with the depiction of the breakdown. That literally blew my mind it feels like something just clicked in my head that adding a breakdown could make a huge improvement in movement. Thanks for the tutorial, keep up your work.
You're very welcome! Thanks for letting us know you also watched the jump tutorial! 🙌 Glad to know our videos helped you in understanding animation better. Keep at it! 🙌
Oh my god this is great. I feel like I can already start helping myself with my shots and animations using this. I like also how you say “it’s a puzzle to solve” that’s honestly what gets me excited about drawing, every time I get to invent, solve and present new problems to solve and ways to achieve emotional effects. Thanks!
One thing that's rarely discussed is why you do inbetweens sounds kind of crazy, but the people who are really into animation, it's good to say that it's always easier to draw a frame in between two keyframes and then the drawer another frame in between those two gear frames. Yours halving every time you're animating just makes the drawing process or the tracing process easier. It seems obvious to say this but you would be surprised how many times people get stuck on this little thing and once they understand that's why you are creating these in-betweens and twins. It clicks for people or at least I found it for the people that I've I've spoken to. It's like one of those things you only get if you animate.
I recently just told a ytber that I wasnt sure how to read timing chart, lo and behold this video is so timely. I understood it, the explanation was very succinct! thank you very much for the video
I watched many timing charts in yt. same as you, I read books and watched a lot of tutorials and still don't get it. this is an informative video. and you make it easy to understand. best teacher. I need to stay on this channel. thank you so much, sir.❤
Thanks for the explanation, this is the type of explanation that I understand, detailed, without skipping the smallest detail no matter how obvious it may be. Watching other videos, people usually skip mentioning details, as if it were easy to conclude the answer, no they aren't easy. That thing you did by repeating consecutively that frame (n) is the half of frame (n) and frame (n), must be tiring, but it really helps to memorize, instead of just saying it once and it only remains as a detail that will be forgotten and that is not so important, when it is. Thank you.
Honestly the editing on this video could not be more perfect. Everything just helps point out how things are related between the timing chart and frame timeline
I just got to the timing charts chapter in the Animation Survival Kit and i got super scared cause i thought they looked too complicated but you explained it so well, thanks💕
Another tip, try to keep your key poses on odd numbers if possible, it saves a lot of headache. Sometimes you have no choice but to use even numbers, but try to keep them odd.
@@merryherb because it stops you chart from dividing weirdly if that makes sense. It could sometimes make the chart go into thirds unintentionally. Test it out, make a chart with keys from 1 and 8 and try to divide it evenly
Genuinely the best breakdown and explanation of this process I’ve seen! I have watched so many videos about timing charts and still couldn’t understand it. Thank you so much for this you’re a life saver 🙏❤️
Hello! I am a young artist who is interested in animating, this is the first video I've seen with timing charts and I immediately went from knowing nothing at the beginning to understanding everything you said at the end! This was a very easy to understand video that did teach me a lot! This was also the first video I've seen from this channel and I do plan on watching more! You earned a new subscriber and I am glad that I stumbled upon this!
As someone who does no animation whatsoever, this was a really cool breakdown on a process I thought would be much more complicated than it actually is!
it'll get a bit intimidating once you get to see an actual time sheet..lol! that's what the oldtimers did before..plus the timing bars written on the top right/left of every animation sheet.
I left a question typed out, but looked at the chapters and I think it should be answered by another chapter. You're teaching so well that you're anticipating your student's questions!! question for reference, thinking it will be answered in "with multiple keyposes": Question, sometimes I see animations "overshooting" or "bouncing" (not sure how to call it, but it's like if the end pose frame 9, it would overshoot on frame 11 and go back to what it was in 9 on 13)
You're very welcome! Glad it was helpful. 😊 Sometimes I also wish too that we started teaching on RUclips 10 years ago. But then again we still didn't possess the skills we have now. And we have now, and we'll keep on posting from now on, and you're here. Glad to have you around our channel. 😊
@plainlysimple My only source for Animation tutorials we're Walt Disney or Richard Williams guide book for digital animation. I only did ugly Story Boards with 3 or 4 keyframes but they we're a good reference. My High-school lied to me about there not being jobs for that field & I called them out on it. So glad RUclips exsist now to further my career choices.
Hey, this is an amazing video, very clear and helped a lot with the timing, but could you make one explaining a little more what are the breakdown poses?
wow, I had no idea how you gonna manage that mid 13 frame and you just killed it on 23:53 OMG. good job man. also this is a very good video, I wanted to understand this method for a while
I took courses years ago and we never really dove into charts, how they worked, why. This made me understand. I wonder why they didn't just name it a spacing chart instead???
just going from changing the name from “timing chart” to “spacing chart” actually made it make a lot more sense to me. the name always made me confused and resulted in me putting the *spacing* on the *timeline* , not spacing the drawings themselves. who the hell decided to call it a TIMING chart?? they made it so confusing for no reason
sorry to break it to you, but timing charts are pretty hard. The average person just won't be able to get it without actually using it on a regular basis, the nature of a timing chart simply varies too much. Its easier to understand that each thing happens seperately, but in the animation you bring them together, so all you have to do is align them and make the illusion of it happing at once. It's way easier to explain that to people and then get them to make their own jank timing charts.
This is fantastic. Totally get it now. Let's get a petition going to rename it the SPACING chart and save future generations from easily avoidable confusion.
I've been animating on my own for years, but I needed to learn this, so I can prepare myself when I eventually animate with someone else, thank you so much!! great video and explaining!
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Thank you for this , this was deeply needed , perfectly simplified and to the point
and im glad my google , "how to make timing charts " made this video recommended to me
As someone who did go to animation school, you did a much better job explaining it than any of my teachers
Wow! That's so nice of you. Thanks! 🙌
True 🤣
No bro it's because by watching this video you learning it the second time, check back to your lectures, it's the same.
@@ribos2762 who are you to decide that LOL
Ditto.
"Timing charts" should really be called "spacing charts" because that's how you read them.
Agreed! 🙌
timing chart being about spacing is the missing piece i needed xD
Right? They should have named it spacing chart 😂
I HAVE BEEN CONFUSED ON THIS FOR AGES. AGES. THANK YOU, I AM FOREVER INDEBTED TO YOU. HALLELUJAH 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Hi! Glad to know that this video finally helped you understand timing charts. You're so welcome! 🙌 I hope you'll keep on animating. Keep going! Keep learning and keep animating 😁
A timing chart is not for timing, but for spacing. Usually with equal time
Exactly! Glad to know you got this key take away from the video 😁
then its spacing charts
@3than0lvideos22 Nope. It's A timing chart to know how keys are "spaced" in "time".
IVE BEEN WAITIN YEARS FOR THIS GOOD GOD MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED, thank you
You're welcome!
its not hard to google
Unless you forgot what a fram chart is called
I tried animation in the past, frame by frame and it's really demotivating when you spend a lot of time on drawing and the end result is bad or not what you hoped for.
This video might help me in the future since it motivates me to try again.
Thanks!
Hi! I hope you'll try to animate again 😊 Animation can take up a lot of time but it can also feel so fulfilling. It's not for everyone. But if it's your passion, I hope you'll give it another go. Expect the result will be bad. We've all been there but I hope that won't demotivate you because the next try will probably be a little bit better, and the next one after that and so on.
@@plainlysimple Thank you for the reply. I actually have all character designs ready so i will give it another go soon! Thanks for motivating me!
As an animator, I commend this video, it even taught me things about timing charts I didn’t even know, specifically the use of curves in the charts.
Happy to help 🙌
As someone who has been animating for years, i finally understand it
Glad to know that 😁
Ah, that's what I need. Thank you for making this, as a self-taught animator, I feel discouraged because I didn't go to animation school.
Glad to hear that! 🙌 I'm a self-taught animator too. Don't feel discouraged. Just keep going! 🙌
Same! But it feels great when something clicks!!
Never thought ,that the day I join ,I will get the video on the topic I really needed
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I've been animating for years and timing charts were never my friend, I needed to hear that it was about spacing all along! Thank you :)
I'm currently doing my own research on the principles of animation as a beginner, and this simple yet very complete guide motivated me to get my pencil, and have fun doing simple animations again. Thank you so much!
By far the quickest way I’ve learned and I’ve watched a lot of these but you make it so easy to follow. Thanx
I think I read somewhere that timing charts come from actually timing out an action, like on a stop watch. You would act out an action or scene, you would time how long it takes to do the action, and you would mark your poses on the timing chart. Then you would go back through it and mark out the in-betweens. Hence it being called a timing chart instead of spacing chart.
I was so confused about timing charts for so long and now it makes sense. Thank you so much you are a lifesaver
Thank you sooooo much!! After watch a lot of videos about timing charts FINALLY I found one video that explains in a clarity and easy way, I understood everything. As a 2D animator beginner is super useful, right now I will practice with this new knowledge and I will recommend this video too
Amazing explanation! Unlike some YT art channels, this one really helped me. Thanks!
I was able to understand the timing chart because you were able to explain it in easy-to-understand terms.
You did a better job at explaining it then the adjunct instructor my college hired. Keep it up!👍
Oh my gosh. I've finally understood this. I stopped using timing charts because I hot a feeling I didn't understand it. As I watched the video I quickly did a simple animation using what I have learnt and I got it. My main issue was confusing it as "timing" chart instead of a "spacing chart."
Finally I understand these charts bless you for this work
Thank you so much for making this video, its really opened my eyes to how i can make animating easier since it always felt impossible to me. I’ll forever use this video as a guide for timing and spacing.
I think thus is one of the best animation tutorials I have ever seing
I never started animation because I didn’t understand anything I was watching or reading about. But I might try again after this video. I’m gonna go watch your other stuff now. Instant subscribe!
Your video might be the clearest and easy-to-understand animation tutorial I've ever seen. Recently I didn't really have a clear depiction of the breakdown and it made me struggle for a while until you showed a jumping animation with the depiction of the breakdown. That literally blew my mind it feels like something just clicked in my head that adding a breakdown could make a huge improvement in movement. Thanks for the tutorial, keep up your work.
You're very welcome! Thanks for letting us know you also watched the jump tutorial! 🙌 Glad to know our videos helped you in understanding animation better. Keep at it! 🙌
There's breakdown example and demonstrations! wow! I understand it now.
Oh my god this is great. I feel like I can already start helping myself with my shots and animations using this. I like also how you say “it’s a puzzle to solve” that’s honestly what gets me excited about drawing, every time I get to invent, solve and present new problems to solve and ways to achieve emotional effects. Thanks!
That's great to hear! Hopefully this information would help you improve your shots! Let's keep learning and animating! 🙌
I've never heard of timing charts before, but now I understand them ;)
Thank you. You made such a complex subject seem "Plainly Simple" to me.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much for providing this amazing resource.
One thing that's rarely discussed is why you do inbetweens sounds kind of crazy, but the people who are really into animation, it's good to say that it's always easier to draw a frame in between two keyframes and then the drawer another frame in between those two gear frames. Yours halving every time you're animating just makes the drawing process or the tracing process easier. It seems obvious to say this but you would be surprised how many times people get stuck on this little thing and once they understand that's why you are creating these in-betweens and twins. It clicks for people or at least I found it for the people that I've I've spoken to. It's like one of those things you only get if you animate.
Thank you brother for this wonderful video... I finally understood the concept❤
What a great explanation, thank you so much!
I recently just told a ytber that I wasnt sure how to read timing chart, lo and behold this video is so timely. I understood it, the explanation was very succinct! thank you very much for the video
This man is saving US OUT HERE. I always wondered why I wasn’t getting this. The naming threw me off and now I completely get it. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH
I get it now!!! Just subbed because of it! Thanks so much!
I watched many timing charts in yt. same as you, I read books and watched a lot of tutorials and still don't get it.
this is an informative video. and you make it easy to understand. best teacher. I need to stay on this channel. thank you so much, sir.❤
very well explained thank you
Thanks for the explanation, this is the type of explanation that I understand, detailed, without skipping the smallest detail no matter how obvious it may be. Watching other videos, people usually skip mentioning details, as if it were easy to conclude the answer, no they aren't easy. That thing you did by repeating consecutively that frame (n) is the half of frame (n) and frame (n), must be tiring, but it really helps to memorize, instead of just saying it once and it only remains as a detail that will be forgotten and that is not so important, when it is. Thank you.
Honestly the editing on this video could not be more perfect. Everything just helps point out how things are related between the timing chart and frame timeline
Thanks! We put a lot of effort into editing. So you noticing the editing part made it worth it 😄
This is the best explanation, thank you so much, this video answered many questions I had
this was soooo helpfull, the name is so confusing. Such a good video
I just got to the timing charts chapter in the Animation Survival Kit and i got super scared cause i thought they looked too complicated but you explained it so well, thanks💕
i finaly unserstood time charts man, really thank you!
You really helped me a lot brother.. thanks 🙏🏻
Thank you so much! It has been extremely helpful!
Another tip, try to keep your key poses on odd numbers if possible, it saves a lot of headache. Sometimes you have no choice but to use even numbers, but try to keep them odd.
Nice tip. 😊
i was wondering the ‘why’ behind this tip :O? i hope thats ok!
@@merryherb because it stops you chart from dividing weirdly if that makes sense. It could sometimes make the chart go into thirds unintentionally. Test it out, make a chart with keys from 1 and 8 and try to divide it evenly
Great top
Genuinely the best breakdown and explanation of this process I’ve seen! I have watched so many videos about timing charts and still couldn’t understand it. Thank you so much for this you’re a life saver 🙏❤️
Wow! Thanks for the kind words. Glad you feel this way about our tutorial. 😊
WOAH, I really needed this. I think I finally understand it but I'll have to mess around and practice with it. But I'll do my best to keep it in mind!
Hello! I am a young artist who is interested in animating, this is the first video I've seen with timing charts and I immediately went from knowing nothing at the beginning to understanding everything you said at the end! This was a very easy to understand video that did teach me a lot! This was also the first video I've seen from this channel and I do plan on watching more! You earned a new subscriber and I am glad that I stumbled upon this!
As someone who does no animation whatsoever, this was a really cool breakdown on a process I thought would be much more complicated than it actually is!
Glad you liked it. 😁 Hope you'll give animation a try soon! 😄
it'll get a bit intimidating once you get to see an actual time sheet..lol! that's what the oldtimers did before..plus the timing bars written on the top right/left of every animation sheet.
Thanks so much I did vaguely understand timing charts but now I might start using them😆
I left a question typed out, but looked at the chapters and I think it should be answered by another chapter. You're teaching so well that you're anticipating your student's questions!!
question for reference, thinking it will be answered in "with multiple keyposes": Question, sometimes I see animations "overshooting" or "bouncing" (not sure how to call it, but it's like if the end pose frame 9, it would overshoot on frame 11 and go back to what it was in 9 on 13)
Amazing tutorial. Really helpful. Thank you
Thank you so much. This was the best explanation for timing charts I've come across. xD
great explanation, I'm a self thought animator and I wish I had this video long ago when I started animating.
nice explanation and graphs 👌
I wish you were my Animation Teacher over 10 years ago when RUclips was still young. Thank you for this simple yet informative tutorial. ❤
You're very welcome! Glad it was helpful. 😊 Sometimes I also wish too that we started teaching on RUclips 10 years ago. But then again we still didn't possess the skills we have now. And we have now, and we'll keep on posting from now on, and you're here. Glad to have you around our channel. 😊
@plainlysimple
My only source for Animation tutorials we're Walt Disney or Richard Williams guide book for digital animation. I only did ugly Story Boards with 3 or 4 keyframes but they we're a good reference. My High-school lied to me about there not being jobs for that field & I called them out on it. So glad RUclips exsist now to further my career choices.
Thank you. Super clear now. Very well spelled out. Great video.
You're very welcome! Glad to know that. 🙏
Thank you for saying it means SPACING chart besides the name, I haven't heard that even at the animation college
Thank you these finally make sense!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! ive watched SO many tutorials and i couldnt understand them at all, and this was very straightforward!!!!!!!
You're welcome! Glad that you finally understood timing charts with this video 😄 Keep learning and animating! ✨
Hey, this is an amazing video, very clear and helped a lot with the timing, but could you make one explaining a little more what are the breakdown poses?
the way you explain things really do make me feel excited to learn new things again!! leaving a comment to boost engagement!!
Great Video. Helped me a lot!!!
wow, I had no idea how you gonna manage that mid 13 frame and you just killed it on 23:53 OMG. good job man. also this is a very good video, I wanted to understand this method for a while
Hi! Thanks! Glad you liked that part. 😊 And glad to know you finally understand timing charts now. 🙌
hey man, this was very informative. thank you
Thanks a lot bud for this vidéo. It really helps me
As someone who just recently understood timing charts, have classmates who dont undersand them yet. This is huge, thanks!
You're welcome!! Send this to your classmates who don't understand them yet 😄
Well explained, I learned something new 🙏🏻
I only animation sometimes for fun so I never knew about any of this. I appreciate how easy the video was to follow
i thought i understood timing charts, but this actually clarified a lot of misconceptions i had thanks! :)
You're welcome! 🙌 We learned a lot too trying to teach this. It solidified a lot of concepts in our heads. 😊
10:46 after all these years I can finally understabd why those curves exista, thanks!
Haha, I also had the same sentiment years ago. Glad that this helped! 😊
This is the best animation I have seen
Animation tutorial *
Feels illegal to watch it for free on RUclips 😄
Thanks! 🙌 You can also become a member if you want to. 😉😄
I always don't understand that until watch this one. THANK YOU BROOOO SO MUCH
You're so welcome! 😁
Easily the best tutorial on this I’ve seen. Thanks!!
Wow, thanks! And you're welcome! 😁
Super clear and finally I had all information I struggled to find on context , thank you very much ·
You're very welcome! 🙌
ThIs is gold!!! THANKS!!!!!
I took courses years ago and we never really dove into charts, how they worked, why. This made me understand. I wonder why they didn't just name it a spacing chart instead???
Glad to know this video helped 😊 And I'm wondering that myself 😄 I hope they just named it spacing chart from the start 😄
Finally understood timing charts!
just going from changing the name from “timing chart” to “spacing chart” actually made it make a lot more sense to me. the name always made me confused and resulted in me putting the *spacing* on the *timeline* , not spacing the drawings themselves. who the hell decided to call it a TIMING chart?? they made it so confusing for no reason
Right? Spacing chart makes more sense 😄
thank you finally it all makes sense
This has been very informative, tysm !!
You’re so welcome! 😁 Glad to know that!
sorry to break it to you, but timing charts are pretty hard. The average person just won't be able to get it without actually using it on a regular basis, the nature of a timing chart simply varies too much. Its easier to understand that each thing happens seperately, but in the animation you bring them together, so all you have to do is align them and make the illusion of it happing at once. It's way easier to explain that to people and then get them to make their own jank timing charts.
This is fantastic. Totally get it now. Let's get a petition going to rename it the SPACING chart and save future generations from easily avoidable confusion.
I know understand timing charts! Thank you!
thank you very much for this video!!!
Sir please create a tutorial for background lighting your video timing is 19:59 type background lighting please sir one create video
That could be an idea for the next video
Thanks 👍
thanks . now i understands timing chart.
Exceptional Video, very detailed, simply delivered and extremely informative, TYSM for your hard work! ❤
You're so welcome! ❤️
I get it now!
Hopefully I don't forget in my sleep.
As a motion designer I finally can understand these 😂😂
Wow! ❤ I thought I already understood it but now I really understand it. Thank you! I'm going straight to putting it into practice. Excellent video! ❤
You're so welcome! Keep it up! 🙌
I've been animating on my own for years, but I needed to learn this, so I can prepare myself when I eventually animate with someone else, thank you so much!! great video and explaining!
The video was super helpul. Thank you for that!
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful 🙌
i was sceptical i'd ever understand this, but you explained it so well!
Glad that you understood it 😊