How to do 2d animation; flicking!

[angelwing978534]

need better quality :( I couldn't see.

[CMBTV64]

I use a big stack of sticky notes

[lockingfrench]

I...I...cccc....can't doooo tthat TT^TT I'm a European turned ignorant...I have awesome talent to draw but I can't spoon that

[gcdvclassof09]

and even though i love the 3d CGI animations i think ill always be a 2D girl :)

[Optics233]

No sound?

[AnimationBooks]

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[queenofsheba1000]

@AnimationBooks ---- thanks 4 the link

[AnimationBooks]

@queenofsheba1000 np :)

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[xgustavoex]

im reading The animators Survival Kit! isnt it better to use pegs in the top?

[Regna]

I just cant flick the page's i just do a quick line test im a flickin noob

[MonsterandSpot]

Where do you get this paper? Sorry if this is an odd question. I"m just working on designing something to help my animation techniques and I was wondering

A. Where I can get this paper

B. What the dimensions are (Length and width along with the hole sizes and spacing.

C. What company/ brand name sells this

Sorry, this is my sisters account and I don't feel like logging off so the videos are weird... O.O

Anyway thanks and get back to me as soon as you can.

[BrownAcid373]

i just tried this with a bouncing ball.....its harder than it looks

[StudioSambodia]

there's a teacher in my school who flicks with his four fingers, mad crazy and fast.

[VenetianSky]

Oh, I was trying to figure out a good way to do it traditionally... this helps! Thanks.

[falley11]

lawl, i just didn't understand

[k1ssmyc0w]

i have a homemade lightbox :D havent used it yet though haha

[probounderxxx]

huuuu......id rather use flash 2009 for drawing....

ctrl+z FTW

[Anduvu]

OMG get life

[probounderxxx]

Go on ebay and buy a life for urself :D

[Jaeqo]

classics cooler to me

[nagranok]

uh ok.. i think ill use MAYA =P

[beloveene]

where can i get one of those tables.

[2DD]

it's just a lightbox, the one shown is homemade, steve shows you how to make on his webpage,

characteranimationin3d(dot)com

[CronosGuy]

I wish that I had a pegs like that on my desk.

[TristramHale]

Why use such big papper for such a little animation (If you can call it that?? its only three pictures)

[JeffZHigs1]

cause he wouldn't be finished and the point isnt the animation but how to flick the paper

[xgustavoex]

@TristramHale was an exampleeeeeee dumbass

[SunnyShawFilms]

What is this

[clay82es]

In my opinion I think sometimes is better to use an Animation Software, like Flash, TVPaint, Retas ...

because the traditional way is much more expensive staff and equipment.

[NarutoAngel00]

But i think that the traditional way give the chareter or whatever is animated more soul :)

[clay82es]

I think the 2 options are the same thing.

In this times what is the difference to use a Wacom Screen or use a paper?

Everything requires an skill, but with the time the result is the same.

Is only my opinion.

BEST.

[coxisaxo]

mmmm... use flash its better

[TRCOOLGUY]

It doesn't have as much feeling, bud.

[2benja2]

stupid..

[MasterCritic7]

what the he double hockey stick

[InklingStudio]

But , yeah, to agree with Ray Pointer's comment , this procedure shown here is usually known as "rolling" the drawings, not "flicking" (at least in the U.S. animation industry) .  A helpful hint is to stretch a rubber band over the pegs so that it holds the drawings securely on the peg bar (you can see in the video where the drawings start to slip off a few times)

[RayPointer]

This is not "Flicking" as referred to in the United States. Not to be silly or nit-picky, but this is called "Rolling." The "Flipping" is the rolling of all of the finished drawings viewed in action order.

[avenged90]

lol .. it's too easy to show it on youtube, i should make something interesting -moving character, moving ball, car etc...

I'm going to make animation - fighting with 3D elements, on paper blocks :P and show it, and maybe i show how to make it.

[ToMiTzZzA]

oh man **** u u are so clever!

[jamalanimation]

i love to animate using an animating desc , thanks for posting this

[astr0Z0mbiE3]

me neither

[2beasy]

i don't understand...

[sakurasanx]

i know, i don't understand either.

[dbag333]

"flipping" flick is what you do to boogers at clits

[CharacterAnimation3D]

No, this is called flicking. You place the paper that you are drawing on the top, and the two drawings you are inbetweening undernieth. Flipping is when you have all the drawings in order.

[RayPointer]

@CharacterAnimation3D Flipping is done when you are inbetweening and checking your work. You can roll four or five drawings between your fingers to check for hitches in the flow. When you take the whole stack you "roll" through it. There is no term, "flicking" used in the profession.

[RayPointer]

@RayPointer I realized that you are in the UK. Perhaps the terms are a bit different there. But since the advancements in 2D Animation came largely from the United States, the majority of the terminology is based on that. Therefore you will see some amont of debate. Just as in the U.S. the term, Ink and Paint was used on the west coast, where it was called Ink and Opaque on the east coast. Nevertheless, we do need to clarify our use of terms within their proper context.

[ssscybro2]

@dbag333 i know its been 2 years but....pwned...learn your stuff.

[Bobman4671]

@dbag333 You have an odd sex habit.

[reapermaycry]

oh really i bet u wont do 24 picture for just 1 second in animation when ur 9

animation is an art of patience

[thetrojan01gr]

Daaahh :) I did this when I was 9 years old! :P

[Deathetta666]

O.K! Good!

[karcreat]

I thought it was called 'tweening'...?

K

[CharacterAnimation3D]

'tweening' is a horrible new word invented by computer animators who can't be bothered to add the 'inbe' at the start!

[karcreat]

'tweening' is a horrible new word invented by computer animators who can't be bothered to add the 'inbe' at the start!

____

No, honestly, I hear that term years before CGI was common, I could swear it was in reference to the artists that go back and add the extra drawings between the main action ones...they were refered to as 'tweens' (the pages)...

[CharacterAnimation3D]

I never heard the phrase before 1993-4. I refuse to use it!

[boru25]

I really wanna animate! I';m trying to do this sceane where a T-Rex is about to grasp a dog in his mouth! Its not fluet animation. Just frame by frame. It's just 11 frames of a t-rex catching a dog in his mouth, scooping him up, filng him into his mouth, chewing & swallowing! I want all his joints to be perfect but I don't know how to keep track of them cause I don't understand the body! Any advise?

[CharacterAnimation3D]

The key to being a good animator is to not make life to difficult for yourself. Start with a longshot of dog and dinosaur, then cut to close up of dog and just have the dino's head come in and grab dog in jaws.

[boru25]

So your saying I should do a big drawing of the T-Rex grabing the dog in its mouth?

[lNllClK]

just keep it simple and rough, you should start small with a ball bounce or a walk cycle or something.

[punkistah1]

just try and try untill you get it right ok ...try looking at your self at the mirror and think ur a t-rex and try to look at ur self and later on youll get it right ok belive on your self

[InklingStudio]

Agreed. "tweening" is a word which sets my teeth on edge.

The drawings are called inbetweens and the process of drawing inbetweens is called inbetweening.

Just Say NO to "tweens"

[Monkeymauler20]

Excuse me, I'm rather interested in traditional animation and I hope to be in the business of it one day, would you happen to know the machine the rapidly takes photos of an image, removes top image, takes another etc.? It's the final process in capturing animation before syncing it with sound and such.

Thanks :)

[CharacterAnimation3D]

I use a program calle digicel flipbook. This has a free version and a bsic version for $99! It also has a full version that does camera moves and colours in. There is also a free program called monkey jam. Have a look at my website characteranimationin3d dot com slash links.

[Monkeymauler20]

Thanks a lot!

[JasonTCampbell]

That must be what it is, toe-may-toe, toe-mah-tow. over the pond and all.

It's all good, great that you are sharing this stuff. Have to keep 2D alive.

[JasonTCampbell]

I'll take your word for it though, I was never trying to be argumentative about it, just not what I had heard it called, that's all.

[CharacterAnimation3D]

Maybe it's a limey term (I worked for Disney in London). Maybe it's a term used by assistants (I was an assistent at the time and did a lot of "flicking" for an animator called Bob McKnight). The basic priciple is when doing an inbetween you look at the drawing you are coming from (bottom on the lightbox) then look at the drawing you are working on (top) then at the drawing you are going to (middle ). Mind you I haven't done any of this for years and I'm very rusty!

[JasonTCampbell]

I havent been doing this for 25 years but I have worked for disney feature animation myself as well and I have never heard the term flicking used to describe what is going on here.

[JasonTCampbell]

Not trying to bash, I appreciate your sharing the technique. It is however called "Flipping" not "Flicking".

[CharacterAnimation3D]

I've been animating for over 25 years and I've worked for companies like Disney and Warner Brothers. This is called flicking. See my other videos on how to flip flick and roll!

[cartman651]

that wat ur mother said after i banged her, whofarted9

owned! lol

[whofarted95]

Very blurry i can't see a thing.