Thought I'd share a type of animation practice.

[WillW]

A long while ago (roughly 2 years) I set myself a little task to in between two professional key frames of a sequence. It was a great practice as it showed me exactly what I was doing wrong and how far I needed to improve. I would certainly recommend any one to give it a go, it throws you right in the deep end and forces you right outside your comfort zone. the only problem really is finding the key frames to actually do this, one thing I used to do was look at model/expression sheets to find two different poses that could be inbetweened but this isn't really the most Ideal way of doing it.

I'm really tempted to give this a try again but I would want to try it with more then just 2 key frames. Wandering if anyone knew a good place to find such images from or if people think this is actually a good way of practicing animation at all.

heres the last one I tried, (link) (http://tyokio.deviantart.com/art/Charlie-B-Barkin-challange-72217619)

tell me what you think of this kind of practice : D

[lavallelee]

i think yes! this sounds fun

also great job on charlie! pac man style

[jeremyfries]

Fantastic idea! I've saved lots of pictures of animation drawings that I liked on my hard drive for reference purposes, but for some reason it never really occurred to me to try to inbetween them. Thanks!!!

[SmithyGCN]

Sure looks awesome! :)
I'd like to try it myself.

Had a load of animation references here on my hard drive until it crashed last month... oh, well, I'd better get to hunting.

[wolfsymphony]

This is a great idea! I don't know why I never though of doing this before, shall definitely be trying something like this soon!

[macprofilms]

This is a great idea, actually have been doing it for some time now. I have used many of the key drawings from Illustion of life book. (Frank and Ollie) I then do all the inbetweens for a scene. This gives you a great scence of the movement, and what the master animator was thinking at the time.

[Don Bluth]

A long while ago (roughly 2 years) I set myself a little task to in between two professional key frames of a sequence. It was a great practice as it showed me exactly what I was doing wrong and how far I needed to improve. I would certainly recommend any one to give it a go, it throws you right in the deep end and forces you right outside your comfort zone. the only problem really is finding the key frames to actually do this, one thing I used to do was look at model/expression sheets to find two different poses that could be inbetweened but this isn't really the most Ideal way of doing it.

I'm really tempted to give this a try again but I would want to try it with more then just 2 key frames. Wandering if anyone knew a good place to find such images from or if people think this is actually a good way of practicing animation at all.

heres the last one I tried, (link) (http://tyokio.deviantart.com/art/Charlie-B-Barkin-challange-72217619)

tell me what you think of this kind of practice : D


Will,
I think the animation of Charlie shows that you have an excellent understanding of the art of In-betweening. Accurate in-betweens make the animation smooth and a joy to watch. The reverse of that is jittery, unstable shapes. Try to do your next test on pencil and paper.
Don