3 Tips to improve your SENSE OF TIMING for animation!

Let me know if you have any questions! And what are your ways that have helped you refine your sense of timing?

Is it really true that even simple animations like south park do reference shots I'm just curious if you know?

Great info. I loved Tangled. One of my favorite animated movies.

Thank you sir❤🙏 , i am learning animation and i struggle with timing a lot

I’ll be looking forward to animating and story telling but I’m having fun learning lighting and about environments now in blender. I agree with a lot of what you were saying and I’ll take notes but what gets me excited to get better is getting feedback from lots of people and seeing how I can improve on anything i do! I don’t have much time with my 10 hour day job but I know I can do a lot in 3d one day if I keep at it! And it’s only getting easier to learn overtime.

Thank you Leon The professional, i like your tips!

Doing references by my own is kinda cool, especially when its attack animations! Got me a feeling of an great game designer.

just loved it boosted me ....

This channel is a god damn goldmine

Don't mind me carrying off all the riches...

As or the music part, you can study old Disney shorts called Silly Symphonies or the old Tom and Jerry cartoons. They use musical foley. That's how I learned my sense of rhythm as I grew up.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, mentioning of animating to music gave me the idea I needed, I just finished putting in the key poses, and found I was really struggling to adjust the timing in maya with some fast paced superhuman movement so finding reference would be difficult.
but then your idea of music, helped as in my head I can get a good idea of what i want, it's just hard applying that into maya,
but if I record myself making sound effects for the movements, i can use that timing for the character.

Thanks again for another great video!

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Thanks for the tips sir.
For all viewer, feel free to check my animation in my channel. open for comment and improvement, I am still learning and practice.

References are really important, i learnt this pretty late but better late than never

Rhythm! More of a tool to add to the timing arsenal. But, separating out beats arrhythmically can really give your shot a satisfying feeling that is almost intangible. So not 1... 2... 3... 4... More like 1.2........3....4

Thanks for the kind words!!, humbled! ☺

i forgot this another thing: watching fish aquariums! fish will never stop moving around aquarium, you get a sense of how much time the fish moves from point a to b after you stare at it

Appreciate the tips and the mention of that Motion Actor channel. Great stuff! 👍

Great advices!!!

Totally agree with you that Listening to Music or Playing any musical instruments helps a lot 🙌

very good

Your an inspiration 🙌

THANK YOUU

Hi JD!
Hope you're doing well!

I like how down to earth and sincere this video is
It's not clickbait if you deliver on the promise haha

I have been following this channel for a while now
But I gotta say I can't keep up with your speed of uploading acting analyses and tutorials XD
Keep up the awesome work! I'll try to catch up someday (not too soon probably but still :D )

A quick question since I'm supposed to start an internship at Technicolor/MPC soon-
Since it's a more a VFX studio, I was wondering types of shots are assigned to beginners?
I had heard for feature animation, you usually get background characters and basic physicality shots. But I hadn't heard about something like that for VFX.

Thank you for your time! :)

Always love a good FNA! Love the Lego analogy! 🤓
I follow one of your previously mentioned tips. That is, to make sounds to get the correct rhythm! 😃

Awesome video! Any tips on how to have a better sense of timing with stylized creatures? Do I just experiment till it works? Or is that a bad mistake haha

another thing that made me sense movement better, is to watch church pastors giving sermons, it opens your mind the way him talks and gesticulates

after i became an animator, i never ever thought i would find bonfires and small cascades soo interesting and hypnotic

This was really helpful and thanks for the amazing advice!