What you’ll explore
- Weight, anticipation, and follow-through.
- Timing charts and onion skin workflows.
- Stylized FX like smears, ghosts, and particle bursts.
Learn to animate
Timing, spacing, and the satisfying snap of good easing. This track leans on short loops and playful experiments.
12 principles
Looping gifs
Motion references
Starter missions
- Bounce a ball with three timing variations.
- Animate a quick character blink and idle sway.
- Create a looping effect that could live in a game UI.
Practice cadence
Animate tiny, post often, and keep a library of reference footage. The more you compare side-by-side, the quicker timing intuition lands.