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Key concepts<\/h1>\n

Straight-ahead (review)<\/h3>\n

The pose-to-pose approach was really useful for our bouncing ball exercise (helping us with timing, transitioning from squash to stretch etc.). However, animating straight ahead can yield very nice results when applied to the right subject. Particles and effects (i.e: smoke, water, fire etc.) tend to be very fluid and a bit unpredictable -two good reasons to apply the straight ahead technique! Some aspects of a character can also benefit from this approach: animators often use pose-to-pose to animate the character\u2019s main limbs and features, and use straight-ahead for\u00a0secondary action<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0such as hair, clothes, tails, ears etc.<\/p>\n

This sequence from Disney\u2019s\u00a0Pinocchio<\/em>\u00a0(1940)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a beautiful example of traditionally-animated effects animation (likely created with the straight-ahead approach).<\/p>\n

Loops<\/h3>\n

A loop is an action that repeats seamlessly. The first and last frames of a loop are likely to be almost identical.<\/p>\n

Here’s a very simple animation of a fire.<\/p>\n

\"animated<\/p>\n

Loops can be very useful: \u00a0instead of drawing a walk cycle or blink cycle several times, an animator can create it once and repeat over time. Looping GIFs and animations also make for powerful web and social media content (look at\u00a0this page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for inspiration).<\/p>\n

Video Tutorials<\/h3>\n

Here’s a few videos that cover some techniques in Animate.<\/p>\n