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Some Basic Resources
2 Tony White's Fundamentals of 2D Animation
4 Idleworm
Animation Tutorials
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Idlework Walk Cycles
5 Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair
6 Camera Shots For Storyboards
7 Lasseter's Principles of Animation
9 spickycricket.com's walk cycles
Books
The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams
Published by Faber and Faber Limited
The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne
Published by Crown Publishers, Inc.
The Animator's Workbook by Tony White
Published by Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of Billboard Publications,
Inc.
Supplies
Animation bond paper, peg bars, VHS videotape and art supplies (pencils, erasers).
Animation supplies can be purchased from the following vendors:
*Cartoon Colour Company, Inc.
9024 Lindblade Street
Culver City, CA 90232-2584
Phone: 800-523-3665
*Continental Art Supply
7041 Reseda Blvd
Reseda, CA 91355
Information from the Illustrated glossary of Animation and freetoon.com below:
Stretch and Squash
The form of the object changes to denote force against that object. This is
also used to emphasize speed and direction of motion. This strengthens and
exaggerates expressions
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Anticipation: Action, Reaction
Anticipation
is subtle movement that occurs right before a major action. For example, an
arm moving back before it is raised.
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Straight-Ahead and Rhythm Animation
Straight-Ahead Animation (drawing each move from the beginning in a growth
sequence) is used for action that involves rhythm in character movements.
They are impossible to pose-plan. To do this, you can visualize the entire scene,
draw projection poses at critical points (using them as guides but not final
exact poses if they don't work) and then animate straight-ahead from the
start into the projected poses.
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Pose-Planning Animation
Pose-planning involves drawing defined poses where in-between drawings
will be necessary to complete the animation. It is used when the gesture, drama,
and attitude of poses are particularly significant to the animation.
walk
cycles
download sample
walk cycles