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This is an animation critique for one of my students. She did a fantastic job with understanding the characters' attitudes, values and motivations, but there is still a lot to tweak with regard to timing and posing to ensure everything comes across clearly.
Click on "read more" to see the core lessons of this animation critique.

At first special thanks to Sam for showing her animation to the world and allowing us to all learn and improve together!

2:23 - Lesson 1: Use the tools you have access to! Draw all characters on separate layers so timing each is easier.

3:44 - Lesson 2: Only have one important thing happening on screen at once!

9:18 - Lesson 3: Big motions take away the attention from small motions.

10:11 - Pacifying gestures: Rubbing and squeezing motions used to calm ourselves down.

11:38 - Lesson 4: Remember: Everything important needs to come across when watching it for the first time!

13:08 - Lesson 5: For good acting references: Don't observe at the same time, but really become the character as much as possible

14:36 - Lesson 6: Forcing characters with different values to interact, will bring an interesting conflict to a situation.

15:30 - Lesson 7: Humans are always doing something: We always have an opinion, attitude or emotion.

16:43 Lesson 8: You need to leave some time for the character to process a thought! We see, then judge, then act!

18:43 Lesson 9: Construction scribbles and thumbnails help you to find the most expressive pose and then stay on track!

20:29 - Straight against curves: A contrast that creates an appealing design.

20:43 - Tilts: Contrasting tilts and angles bring rhythm to a pose.

23:24 - Posing Checklist:
Silhouette clear?
Line of Action strong?
Tilts have different angles?
Avoided symmetry?

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