Timing

 Timing is essential when it comes to animation but also it helps you improve as an artist/animator as well. Animation veteran has sat down and taught us why timing is important and how it can also be fun to do also.

    Timing involves how fast something moves and how long it stays still. Slowing an object represents weight, gravity, mass and speeding up an object adds speed, energy, and lightness. When working on timing, it is a good idea to work on the poses that you want in an animation, and number the poses as to where it breaks down, this allows you to know ahead of time if the rhythm is right and if the poses work out together or not. 

        Your key poses help set up how the rest of the poses will turn out, they aren't shown for that long, only for a quarter to half of a second but you can stretch out the time a little bit so your audience is able to see them. The amount of time a pose is shown can be different from any character depending on how light or heavy the character is, for example a heavier character pose can be held for 8/10 frames while a lighter character pose can be held for 2/3 frames.

               I thought this article was very interesting and it actually taught a lot that involves timing, I knew it was important but I didn't know that so much goes into it, even for a few poses.

       I recommend that anyone that has an interest in animation as far as wanting to go into the field or just has an appreciation for it, read this.