12 Principles of Animation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation

Thumbnail gallery

Check out Victor Navone's thumbnail gallery below. Victor works @ Pixar, so he knows what's up.

http://blog.navone.org/2007/11/animation-thumbnail-gallery-added.html

For Wednesday, please have your characters rigged, and at least a full page of thumbnails. The point of thumbnails is to explore actions with ROUGH sketches - NOT high quality drawings. Stick figures work great.

Stick figure theatre

Stick figures rule! Check out some of the links below to see some really great stick figure animations. Remember - stick figures take very little time to model, leaving you more time for...animation!

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This one is a bit long and could be "snappier", but the concept is great. Feel free to animate a cube for this project!

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In addition, check out Carlos Baena's animation gallery below. Carlos is an animator at Pixar, and almost all of his personal work is comprised of simple, short animations with 3d stick figures!

Carlos's Gallery

Neat animation test

Check out this super cool animation test. Simple character, simple scene, simple story = success.

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Mental Ray Tutorials

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