Animation Lesson - Overlapping Action and Drag

In this excerpt from Aaron Blaise's successful Animation Fundamentals and Scene Approach course, watch and learn as Aaron takes you through two of the key fundamentals of animation: overlapping action and drag. Learn how to add these key components of real world physics to your animation to ground it in reality, giving it life and believability.
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Aaron Blaise is an animation feature film director and wildlife artist.
For 21 years Aaron worked with Disney helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time he worked as an animator or supervising animator on "The Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan" and more.
In 2003 he was co-director of "Brother Bear" for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film.
After "Brother Bear" he helped to develop several projects but ultimately left Disney to pursue an opportunity back home in Florida. Aaron recently served as 2D Animation Supervisor and Character Designer for the "The Bear and the Hare" an advertisement loved by millions around the world. ( • Video )
Aaron currently is working on his mission to bring affordable art education and animation training to the world through his website: CreatureArtTeacher.com/?src=yt

[@mycollegeshirt]

I bought the scene approach course last week, there is no lecture series that comes close in quality and quantity and for the ridiculously affordable price

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

mycollegeshirt Thank you!!

[@ashikdennis9202]

Does studying this course help me while animating 3D scenes as well ? Can i carry the information over to 3D as well? I am a beginner. Kindly advice. The discounts have made this course very affordable for me

[@EFH2403]

it's official every good animator has a pony tail xD

[@violetapples29]

I’m an animator wearing a ponytail right now 😂

[@sammybandi8003]

@@violetapples29 same!!! but im not good

[@kiwiabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw]

@@cigarettesafterhours me, bald 😂

[@OolTube02]

And a beard like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast.

[@habits6000]

Man-bun animator here, lol 💫

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

I love that you used your pony tail as an example for overlapping action. You are delightful teacher.

[@YeganeMoghaddam-ye9ane]

Hey Aaron, not only you're an exceptional artist, but also a lovely instructor who generously shares his wealth of knowledge. This channel is only a glimpse of your monumental expertise and still a great collection of useful resources.

[@fox7378]

My heavens. You're my hero x'D So much talent in just one person.

[@AK-Drakoin]

Not an Animator, instead I want to be an illustrator, but I just want to say that your channel is such a cool one. It’s awesome to see people of your age and talent share all that they know! You greats don’t have to do it but the fact that you do, and that you are all so generous and down to earth, really makes someone realize how peaceful and undemeaning this side of youtube can actually be. Thank you for the amazing videos sir, you are up there with the legends

[@marcelloascani]

i love you

[@ultimulcapcaun4766]

marcello ascani I think we all do! :)

[@BabyGirl-oi5uu]

Yup. Me too.

[@-zephyressence-2018]

i have finally found it. a real professional sharing their knowledge on youtube. This channel is a real hidden gem to find. SO hsppy and looking forward to exploring this channel more!

[@MrKhaosKid]

this is a very helpful tutorial thank you! I always love seeing how cloth sometimes echoes the shape of the arc of the animation. It curves to kind of show what path the body just took.

[@MauroPerasso]

This channel is just GOLD... my illustration is getting so much better thanks to your tips! the dangers of "evenness" is one of the greatest tips I ever got..

[@kavish.agrawal]

Huge respect for animators. So much thinking and hard work goes behind it. I am a cinematographer, and now I think filmmaking is a piece of cake in front of this. :D

[@EmEytch]

Hey, Aaron! I recently got interested in animation (currently learning the fundamentals of art by myself) and stumbled upon this video. This is so inspiring and the last sentence you said: -"And, you might create a little bit of life." just got me! I sat there with a big smile on my face! I kind of wanted to get into concept art or illustration but this was a moment where I realised: "I want to do this"! Thank you very much, gonna purchase your complete animation course right away!

[@horaciosalazargomez9488]

Hi Aaron! I think this is the first time I write to you (I don’t remember). Anyways, I’ve watched many of your videos, and it’s really cool that you share your knowledge to us the artists who want to improve in what we most like! All your art is very cool and the exercises are very accurate. Particularly, this lesson is very enricher on animation topic. Thanks a lot for sharing it! Well, I hope you keep posting material like this. I bet it’s been very appreciated for all the graphic art community. Have a good one!

[@maimaii4805]

i'm so happy that i've found your channel Aaron! thank you!

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

+Mai Maii I'm glad you found it too! Thanks for watching.

[@user-vn8gl4nb7d]

Arron can teach about the chart making process. I mean how to know what seconds to allocate to each action?

[@user-vn8gl4nb7d]

Also the use of the arc in creating a believable motion. How is acting supposed to be done right. Thanks

[@ImaFriedChicken]

I made a choice while attending RMCAD, I had the options to either go into illustration or animation and at the time Illustration turned out to be what I wanted more. Sadly I couldn't afford to finish the program, and I've always regretted not learning more about animation or at least trying it, but with your videos I now get a chance to learn, and I'm saving up to purchase the Complete Animation Course from your website here pretty soon, so I wanted to just thank you for doing something that until now has been incredibly unheard of. Thank you so much for everything Aaron!

[@BlueMaroonAnimations]

Going to buy all your lessons this summer Aaron :) Thank you for making such amazing video's that are so easily accessible to us!

[@EunSunSun]

I love your lessons

[@ulyssesvarona5074]

I never thought it took so much thought into it

[@OMantras]

Amazing Aaron.. Thank you very much for this

[@isaifdz1698]

Excellent work!!. Thanks for the tips. Greetings from Mexico.

[@eslamelshereef7604]

You're unbelievably awesome, Love you!

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

[@blackdragonshamrock4401]

The character is based on the artists wooden mannequin, I have one of those. I have found that it is so essential to have, to draw. I noticed how easy it is to make a character go from any type, male or female, just by basic shape. I noticed right away that wooden mannequin is what the character is, any person can be drawn from it's shape. I discovered that faces can easily go from male to female when using a mask like influence to get the basics of how to draw a cartoon face down. But the wooden mannequin that is the most doodled thing that I like to doodle and it is great to do that. Once I get it down, I feel like I can draw any character I might think up. It is great all the angles and depth the mannequin has, trying to get it down, just that, might take awhile, but it is the goal.

[@randomperson9886]

How did you do that? You have nothing on ur comment xD

[@LilAimus]

INCREDIBLE!

[@Silbusia]

For the reasons you mentioned I always associated animation with dancing and I think that's why animating always seemed so alluring to me :)

[@GamingPenis]

Thank you for this very insightful !

[@damotoneko1500]

You even present your videos like a Disney person. Like the introduction to Disney shows in christmas. Great work :D

[@gelica1996]

Thank you Aaron! :)

[@frankcastellanos]

i have that series and i have learn so much thanxs Mr. Aaron

[@yasmeens.h9846]

Hello Mr.Aaron! You are a huge inspiration for me, and I'm always willing to learn more and more about art and animation. Thank you for sharing your experience, these are great lessons! I want to ask you, when did you start drawing? I'd like to know how you started your art interest and how it grew. I'm still not in high school, but I really want to know how a great artist like you had their art skills growing like in my age. (14 yrs) Or how it looked like. Looking at old drawing of experts make me feel confident that in the future I can do better. Thank you!

[@ikuyimii8415]

this really helps me a lot since I'm so bad at animating XDDD thank you so much at your animation lessons Mr. Aaron!!

[@appleapple9922]

bless you! thank you so much!

[@m.yunusyunus6932]

wonderful tutorial sir i like so much each chapter i am watching and learning....great...

[@stuvs830]

Congrats to you Aaron and your team, on the launch! My suggestion is to hide your apps bar. People's eyes will wander! A demo artist trick is to create a User profile that leaves the screen clear of app icons and other personal goodies. Best wishes to you.

[@TheVampireRoxy]

you are amazing ! Your videos help a lot ! :)

[@RNorthex]

that's a pretty awesome tutorial! what i don't think i've seen in harry partridge's animation tutorial either that i think would be a good idea for beginner artists is to have another layer that has directional arrows to show how the air hits the objects i think "fighting" animations are very good for learning these, since dynamic action is one of the things that show off the most how drag and impact works

[@neonswaggydee7919]

im so happy that i found this channel!! cuz this would help me animate~!! but do you have a tutorial like to color it??

[@mandanarouzkhosh1832]

Thank you for your videos i'm learning so much from you ♡♡♡

[@user-zo8lx8pz5r]

I love you Aaron ❤♡

[@keshavanimationland6295]

Amazing sir

[@Punchetube]

Great job amigooo!

[@xlrouge]

You're great!!!

[@margotlth3371]

I love all your tips and lessons, you are a great teacher ! =)

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Ajhasse Thank you. I'm trying :O)

[@MrBongers]

This is great ! Hopefully this free sample will help anyone who is "on the fence" about purchasing it decide to get it . I purchased the entire Animation Fundamentals & Scene Approach series and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it to everyone .

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

MrBongers Thanks so much. Glad you are enjoying them. We've got more on the way soon.

[@ineine7400]

thank you!!

[@MarlonsNetwork]

Thank you

[@Hadya90]

Thank you this is very useful but i wanna know what is the program you animate on , on this video ?

[@kosugy]

amazing

[@malioglu9907]

thank you

[@zatch1617]

nice thank you for teaching can u tell me which animation software you use and teach me how to draw move it too

[@yohenson]

that guy is sooo good its unbelievable, no wonder he did big budget hollywood films

[@leda2760]

Thank you Aron you are really good in animation and thank you for teaching and shareing your knowledge can you just tell me where did you get tvpaint?

[@princesspasta]

this is great. what's a good starting animation program?

[@fcsteamboat]

Is truth what people say here in the comments, for me there are people who are pretty good in their craft but is just great when they also know how to teach. Thanks for this videos, been following since you opened the channel:)

[@blackdragonshamrock4401]

I have just started to use that tvpaint program to learn to draw. I have found that no matter the outcome, art is fun. It takes college to learn how to do it correctly, but you tube has a lot of fantastic how to's. I can get some art on paper. Right now I only have a mouse to work with on the computer but I have had some good results with it. My thing is, if you take the time, to imagine it, it can be drawn. If you allow art to be the recreation, even a doodle, it can become something even if it isn't really worth doing anything with, it gives the mind a good workout like music and is healthy. The healthy fun is what it is all about. It doesn't have to be good to be entertaining when your not looking to make money with it. The program tvpaint has a few flaws, but the newer versions are relatively safe from cracking, the updates are solid and the older version has a few quirks, but for the most part is a pretty reliable source of entertainment and looks to be worth the money. Art is all shape, designs with shape and if you can deal with the sloppy, imperfection and annoyance of a doodle and keep on learning art, it really can help quality of life even if you do not make money at it.

[@talksportgh1928]

Pls what software are you using to animate with the tablet?

[@patrickdeza]

Thank you for making these high quality animation tutorials Aaron! I have always loved animation and I am trying to teach myself to animate, so this helps me a lot. I tried to add you on FB but unfortunately you already reached the contacts limit, but I followed you on fb and youtube :-) Best wishes from Germany! Patrick

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Patrick Deza THANKS!

[@pazmapache]

Hi Aaron! I really love your Videos. I love to animate, and I have a question for you. I study cinema and I stand the film in 24 fps, and when I animate in twos or I see you keeping the frame like four or more frames I don´t understand why have so much movement, when I do this the animation is very static. And I don't know if I'm jumping an stage of the animation process or what. If you have a course on your website or in youtube focused in this aspect, please let me know. Thanks you very much. Paz.

[@movedtodifferentaccount2784]

Did you draw that wolf image in the background? Because it's so AMAZING Aaron I love your art so much!

[@michaelbacy3525]

what display is he using?

[@michaelbacy3525]

is UGEE display good enough?

[@2djourney811]

Greetings Aaron, just purchased some of your awesome tutorials... great and inspirational stuff. Can advice anyone to grab it, as its well worth the price. Thanks again for all your previous films and your efforts in the 2d scene in general... : )

[@briancraig4058]

I just across this video lesson on Animation Lesson - Overlapping Action and Drag it I have question may I ask for help sir? I have a link I can send you in how I am doing if that ok?

[@yellowcougar18]

I'm saving up for that animation package (the bundle), hope to be able to order it soon.

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Just as a heads up...we're doing a big sale this weekend.

[@yellowcougar18]

The Art of Aaron Blaise I don't know if I'll have the money by the weekend, more like the next few weeks...but I will post on one of your youtube videos, as soon as I have bought em. :) (Tho you'll know by the cash going into you account :) ). And no, I am not joking..

[@onii-chanmomo7932]

Is the complete animation course 12 videos?

[@alexandrakonyukhova6629]

Wooooooooow!

[@liane5503]

Hi Aaron!! Love this! I'm not even an animator myself but this made me even excited about animating haha. I saw on your facebook page that you asked people to give you feedback on what they want to see for your upcoming character design course. It doesn't let me comment there so I hope it gets to you this way!! For me I would like to see how you create young and young adult human characters and really learning to draw their features how you draw them, as well as drawing them from multiple angles. I love the way you draw human features on your cartoon characters and I struggle with that a lot. Maybe a section on how to draw the pose you are looking for correctly would be helpful too, but I don't mind as much about that, just throwing out ideas. Also, I would REALLY REALLY REALLY like to see a section on creating animal characters like the ones you create. There are some big cat chracters on your instagram, like leopards and lions that while they look realistic, they have cartoon eyes without making them too cartoony, if that makes sense. I love that style and would love to learn how to draw my characters like that: realistically but with expressive cartoon eyes and expression. Hope this wasn't too long, hope it made sense and hope it gets to you! MASSIVE thank you for all of your work! I've been purchasing stuff from your website this past week and I am in love with it!

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

liane5503 First off, Thank you!!! Secondly, I'll be covering everything you mentioned in my next set of videos!

[@liane5503]

SO COOL! Really can't wait! Thanks again Aaron!

[@blackdragonshamrock4401]

I think the mundane, the professional limitations that don't really allow doodling once you get to a stage in your career where everything you do needs to be organized, intellectual, is based on the source of income it could bring or even affect the teaching capacity might limit the creativity a bit because of the expectations that everything a professional animator does is by the book, for the comfort and just so they can draw. Which is what we, who are not, professional, look for in instruction, when we are trying to learn. I'd rather take a lesson seriously from someone who does everything professionally, like the teacher in the video, the soundness of mind is there, the artwork is clear, concise, the basic animation has a generally understood point and there are no questions of the man's psychology with what he is doing. Doodles leave so much room for speculation even if it is for character design and plot creation, where even the artist gets questioned a bit as to why it is they drew what they drew. Art has medical value now a days too, for therapy. So what he is doing is great, because it isn't like there is room for anything but learning. I like that. But I am not going to let all that limit my creativity and I do not have to, I don't plan on being professional with art, I just want my own art to be suitable entertainment and fun, which so far it is.

[@michaelbacy3525]

+Drakonis Aviaire is UGEE display good enough?

[@viki1398]

Software pls

[@trinitywilliams1670]

Music uses both sides :) Nice tutorial though!!

[@Vet4FallujahCJ]

Its always amazing to see a legend work. Didnt even catch the program used though. Not familiar with it. Ive used the lesser krita and clip studio programs. Is this program a more professional application?

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Hello yes TVPaint is more professional for animation. But if you are learning I have heard good things about the ones you mentioned.

[@JankyTrader57]

Great tutorial sir. Please what software is being used in your tutorials? Do you teach after effects and 3d animation too?

[@sarahc5147]

He's using TVPaint its like $800 for the standard :(

[@atharihd297]

Now I get it 🧐

[@rinchhana9925]

Will you be reviewing our work once we sign up at your website

[@lanasemeikina7910]

Thank you very much for the lessons. Lessons with facial expressions are very helpful. My big problem is timing. Could you lat me know, Do you have a lesson about timing, I did not find it. I really love your Mulan movie sketch that you unexpectedly found. Would you like to animate with it?

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

The course on my website has a lesson on timing. Right now the course is just $1 creatureartteacher.com/product/fundamentals-of-animation/

[@lanasemeikina7910]

@@AaronBlaiseArt thanks you , I check this out. 🤗

[@BigLoveAliciaX333]

Could you maybe tell me some animation software (for windows) wich aren't expensive? :) I wanted to started animations long time ago but I don't know good softwares. :( Great and helpfull video. :)

[@rumooooni]

Krita or flip a clip or procreate

[@hh-vj9yp]

What app do you use on your computer to draw that?

[@wareware_.]

tv paint

[@sketchstoriesofedrickgonza4368]

Sana lahat animator

[@cganhvn]

i love you! have you go to Viet Nam yet?

[@jeruelpeele9370]

what software ?

[@sarahc5147]

TVPaint

[@diennt2522]

i love 2d animation

[@meowdietalks1564]

I cry all the time just cause I don't have enough money to even get a cheap crappy laptop......I'm obsessed with art and practice everyday but there is no way that I can ever afford these things to be a professional animator, even though I have a job?!💔😔

[@yendo7019]

i feel you :(( try borrowing money and then pay it back later. i did with my laptop and now working hard to pay back the money :)) goodluck;))

[@spikejoseph5482]

Just get a lightbox and do hand drawn

[@spikejoseph5482]

You can get them for like $15 on amazon

[@jmalmsten]

Practice on paper. Find a way to transfer those drawings to digital. You have a phone with a camera? Then you have a scanner. Just rig it up like an animation camera and get an app that takes stills and exports videos and gifs. You only have an old 1Mp stills camera? Shoot with that. No digital? Maybe there's an old super8 camera around, even cheap models sometimes have single image capture. My point is, if you are dedicated there are ways to make stuff good enough. Even if all you end up with is a pile of copypaper, if the animation production manager is worth his or her salt then they would be able to judge your talent based on flipping through those sheets,, and if you're good enough that they see you as an investment that will make money, they will not hesitate to simply provide you with the necessary tech for the production. Because, tech is cheap compared with hard earned talent.

[@ditofuhrer9100]

agree, crappy laptop just hinder your works trust me, use traditional media that what most art school teach for their first two years to their students

[@supercalifragilisticexpeal5399]

Overlapping action , drag.

[@Ken-yp1ui]

Hello Aaron! I just wanted to say I'm a young artist but I'm going to strive to be like you one day, I'm an amateur but I want to let you know that your a huge inspiration! I wasted to know if you have art from when you were you younger like when you were 12 or around there. I'd really like to see who you drew then! :) thank you and keep doing what you do the best! ~fellow artist

[@Ken-yp1ui]

I wanted to know** if

[@kboogie2323]

went to the site but its still broken. was interested in learning more about the full course. but it says page not found. :(

[@stuvs830]

Just a shot in the dark, but try deleting the cookie on your computer set for Aaron's site, and quit your browser and relaunch. If that doesn't work, time for the old, "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?" It's a common joke, because the procedure works. ;) anyway, good luck to you.

[@kboogie2323]

Stu VS it magically started working. so im in the process of downloading the full course!!! woo hoo!!!

[@notherelol]

6:02

[@irishman6414]

Contrary to popular belief, the left and right sides of the brain aren't solely responsible for creativity and logic respectively. The left brain is responsible for very narrow focus activity and interprets things very literally. The right brain is more broad and open and understands things abstractly/metaphorically. So you can see how people would think that, but there's not really any activity you can perform without both working pretty evenly. It's more like eye glasses. Too near sighted or too far sighted, either way you can't see anything. It's one half of the brain's job to inhibit the other.

[@abbiegordon9673]

You need to do more wolf related videos i'd love to see some canine drawing tutorials and paintings you've made!

[@joned5746]

You are a guy 😜👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌

[@kingkash4869]

am late (2 years)

[@isachan834]

what if you're poor and cant afford photoshop or any of adobes over priced software?

[@jackiethegoldenjackal]

Isa Chan firealpaca is a free program

[@isachan834]

jackie the golden jackal is it better than gimp?

[@jackiethegoldenjackal]

Isa Chan for me gimp seems a bit difficult to understand and firealpaca is easier to download but idk much about gimp it seems to have more feature

[@samieb4712]

They both offer features with some overlap but with different intentions. Gimp is intended for photo editing. And I think Firealpaca is for painting. So you if you find some limitations with one try the other as well and you may have more features without having to resort to expensive software.

[@SufferDYT]

If your mainly into animation, try krita. It's free and has a great feature set, doesn't feel like free software at all. I've had it for a couple weeks and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

[@doctorco2089]

video starts at 2:34 thank me later xD

[@javid5863]

Dinosaur- ROAR Me (green shirt)- Hi, I’m Jay, stop it, get some help.

[@Amirahafed393]

you know why less people watch you ilove you but you should make tiny video