Character animation crash course!

Conception : Attitude poses

Acting in animation: part 1. Getting started

Acting in animation: part 2. Dialogue

Character construction and design

Drawing in animation

Technique : The exposure sheet

Layout and staging

Timing

Spacing

Having a breakdown!

Squash and stretch

Overlapping action

Weight, balance, mass and volume

Properties of matter

Facial expressions

Lip-sync

Animating shapes

Flexible drawing for graphic characters

Animating to music

Gimmicks!

Putting it all together : Approach to a scene

Things for animators to do to make their lives (and everyone else's) easier!

Is that all, folks?