How to Keyframe Like a Pro! (Animation process for any software)

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Ever find animation overwhelming? It can be useful to have a simple process to approach your work. This class explores my process for keyframing and is based on a common keyframing process in the animation industry. It might not be for everyone but I use it almost daily and have found my work has become significantly faster and easier once I started using it.
Credits-
Made and Voiced by Alex Grigg
Music by Skillbard
Logo by Renaud Futterer
Typeface by Laurie Rollitt

[@hhboyo]

As a beginner animator I've been struggling with timing a lot and I've never seen anyone explain it using this method and just after watching this video I feel like I've learned so much. A++ I can't wait to watch more

[@myweirdanimations]

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[@Tatekingdom9]

As a beginner which software you are working

[@hhboyo]

@@Tatekingdom9 adobe animate but I've also been experimenting with the grease pencil in blender

[@Tatekingdom9]

Can you show me some of your work

[@Jrisin]

@@hhboyo does adobe animate cost money :(

[@interestingturkiye]

BRO YOU EVEN ANIMATED THE SOFTWARES HUD !

[@noel_curray]

I worked in 2d animation for 9 years and I can't still explain it like what you did here. And also you are right at the start of the video.. It is still overwhelming even if you have experience. I highly recommend your teaching for beginners and refreshers. a short Animation Survival kit

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks man. Haha this 2 minute explanation took about two years of rewriting to get right. I'm glad it resonated :)

[@noel_curray]

@@AlexGriggAnimation teaching animation (the practical way) and doing (pro) animation is a different skill. I'm happy (and envious) you get the same skill. Keep it up. I'm gonna watch more of your content to refresh.

[@Tatekingdom9]

Hey guys which software should I start as a beginner

[@noel_curray]

@@Tatekingdom9 doesnt matter which software actually. The principle is wjhats important.

[@PaperWolfe]

I really love your teaching style! It's concise and very clear. I enjoyed this class a lot

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

I'm so glad!

[@rafaeljtsilva]

Indeed, it's really appealing! Cheers and keep up the good work

[@Puttydude2]

Love this! Breaks down the animation process so well. Sometimes I get lost when animating, so its great to have a list to keep on track.

[@whats_a___taylor510]

I’ve been struggling with understanding how to adjust timing in my animations and the way you explained it has been so helpful, thank you so much for such a digestible break down!

[@AG-hf7hk]

that note about the perception of the length of the breakdown is one of the most valuable tips ive learned about animating this year. Been learning for a long time and that made a lot of concepts i've been mulling about click in a satisfying way. Thank you for your work!

[@senkail6625]

I really appreciate how much effort you put in to make the video look so perfect I can't wait to see more

[@max_ammo_]

These are amazing! I stopped doing animation for a while and I'm gearing myself towards it again. Seeing your videos bring nostalgia and comfort and also are pushing me towards trying again

[@marcoschin3306]

i'm learning so much from your videos..... searching online yours is by far the easiest to follow. there's a lot of content out there, but the way in which you organize your lessons and explain the steps makes so much sense and makes animation feel less intimidating.... thank you.

[@akshatsrivastava8229]

Best series of tutorials on KZbin. As an aspiring animator, these videos are really helpful to help streamlining my process! Thanks, Alex!

[@shubhamsonawane9872]

Being an animator, i feel the things are very well put in here. Every animator gets stuck into same things at beginning and you are explaining those really good with the visual representation. Im recommending this to all my fellow animators. Keep it up and all the best!!

[@mBluett]

Yes I'm so glad I found this! I've never seen another guide describe timing with holds like this. Anything involving a timing chart always assumes we're using a consistent timing (on ones, twos etc.)

[@annatish]

Beautifully made and so well explained! Thank you so much for sharing these classes.

[@ajorejay]

Thank you for sharing this process Alex, helps a lot! 💯

[@shanobicross]

Love your art, animation and teaching style Alex. Such great work man!

[@dragosbotcau]

I really appreciate the amount of work you put into animating and editing this tutorial. Great job!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks:) glad you enjoyed

[@xxghostxx4124]

This is a HUGE help! By far the cleanest explanation i have seen. for someone like me who is just starting out, i thank you so much for sharing this!

[@WhoIsJohnblack]

Guys get Alex's class. Its amazing!!! I just finished it and am going back to binge this content. Alex, you content is GOLD make more videos and classes please, we need your mad skillz taught to us!¡!¡!

[@husseinkobeisi5022]

I'm re-watching this yet again. And this truly is the most helpful thing I've scene on animating. It just gives you such a nice tool to understand how to do what you want to do. I love it

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks Hussein, I'm so glad that it's helping :)

[@LordRubino]

AMAZING! The blocking phase is so inspirational. Impeccable descriptions 👌👌😍🤩

[@Thexoxas0]

this series are great! you are an absolute gem!! thank you so much for this well explained and concise teaching videos. very helpful. hope you´ll keep doing more of these

[@msdady0]

I watched millions of videos about animation... But this is the best video ever Thank you so much for your hard work

[@mypalpronto4646]

Excellent stuff. Explained well, great production quality, encouraging perspective on learning. Top notch!

[@markokovacevic3225]

Just found your channel, and already see it's a gem! Really like this type of presentation! Great job!

[@CoconutJustice]

Absolutely great video. Congrats. I loved this. So simple yet TONS of informations. Great job.

[@jonathantewnes1224]

loving your breakdown. I am speaking with my artist now i think we will be using this process for our indie studio!!! thanks so much!!!

[@MP-zx8ig]

This was always a concept I struggled with and couldnt visualise the process. Thanks for walking us through this, key framing seems less spooky now

[@l_e__m___o____n_____.]

I’m starting to try some animation rn, and I’ve been a bit clueless recently. But this channel has been very helpful and I have more of an idea now! Ty so much

[@Arkapravo]

Great explanation, you are a very good teacher Alex.

[@samueljamespillar]

Really really helpful man, even for someone who has been animating for a while. The description of the timing between key frames and breakdown with the ball was great

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks Sam. I didn't learn this technique until I'd been animating professionally for about 4 years. Im glad you found it useful!

[@placeboblue]

This is an astonishingly useful and engaging explaination. This is seriously gonna help my workflow, many thanks

[@jeorc]

I just found this channel and I loved this video. I'm new to animation but what a great class and such a good rendition of the topic. Thanks.

[@ReezyResells]

Thanks again!! Loving these animation videos and I can't wait for each one ❤

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Happy to hear that!

[@lcaKB]

Bravo! I was stubbornly looking for software explanations, but your detailed explanation of the process help me understand why and what I had to do, and not how (click here or there). The software is secondary to the process of ideation and storyboarding.

[@guist_]

Animation student from Paris here ! Your videos are really amazing. They're so well put together and informative. They help me check up on my technic in a fun and quick way. Thanks for your videos, it's really wonderful people can have access to such informative videos for free. Keep up the good work ❤️

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey I'm glad you like them :)

[@jasperparkertrenfield8302]

This is the best example of how to take blocking to a final animation in a clear understandable way that I have ever seen. Good Job

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks jasper :)

[@adamtaylorart]

This series is so good, Alex!

[@atharvamahajan3940]

Thank you for making this class! It clears lots of doubts!!

[@deppitup]

This was super helpful and definitely makes tackling animation a little more palatable. Everytime I try to do an animating exercises I always get confused on where to add frames and if I'm even doing it right lol

[@adib_4075]

Bro, you're so underrated. like you need more attention! you really take good classes

[@HELLEKSONART]

This did help alot, I did alot of frame by frame, but it's more facial expressive/ science fiction / Effects type of animation. This is great tutorial for anatomy movement animations.

[@orianaquevedo1801]

I am learning so much. love your teaching style, thank you 👏🏻

[@echo5435]

THANK YOU! your videos are so helpful and made animation fun for me again after I lost motivation :)

[@ralex_nder]

Alex Grigg. You are an amazing instructor. Thanks for this.

[@yelyel6897]

Jesus this tutorial is smooth... Pleasure to eyes and senses. Thanks!

[@rufustangen]

Love this video serie. Best channel i have seen when it comes to drawing animation!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks Rufus!

[@timroberts9542]

I enjoyed seeing how you could do the blocking phase in After Effects - I spent a lot of the episode wondering how you could do it in AE, and lo and behold you covered it! As always, an amazing video

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Haha Thanks for sticking with it. I should have covered some of that earlier in the vid probably :)

[@dimitridehouck9506]

Oh god. Oh dear god!!! This is the best teaching I've ever seen here on KZbin. Your video's are absolutely invaluable! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks mate :)

[@megumegii]

oh my god this tutorial CHANGED EVERYTHING!!! thank you so much!!!!!!!

[@ramonesrocker]

Awesome video! Your art style is cool which also made this more enjoyable !

[@DallasCrane]

Great video! Makes animation more accessible

[@bilosofie]

beautiful video Alex ❤

[@clevermissfox]

Woah what a talented illustrator and animator !

[@mycollegeshirt]

just fantastically explained. I see aaron blaise do it like this all the time on his livestreams with the breakdown so I picked it up, but you verbalizing like this is so great

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Yeh it's definitely something you'll start noticing more now you're seen it once. Check out the blocking for Pixar and Disney 3d films. They're using the same technique

[@bihamdabih]

This is a really high quality video. Really worth the wait.

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey thanks so much

[@ayushganithri6094]

I really learn from your videos. It's very understandable.

[@_chrliymi]

Kept on watching animation tutorials but always ends up with ur vid 😂 its fun and you can understand it clearly. Love it!

[@AaaaNinja]

Even with stop motion there is a blocking stage. It's good to try out timing and it's also good for testing if the scene is possible with the puppet because it is a physical object. Like a rehearsal. And you take photographs as you go. And using the stills that you took they can be used as targets when animating the final shot.

[@XAVMotionDesign]

Highest learning value on KZbin! 🙌

[@farbodjavadian3580]

This was extremely helpful, Thank you so much❤

[@linathew0rld]

this is such a good video ! i’m learning animation by myself with youtube videos and this was really cool. after animating a lot on flipnote i tried different softwares but rn i like to draw on krita so i think i’m gonna focus on it for animation too ☺️

[@SayedSafwan]

Amazing!!Absolutely Amazing!!I LOVE IT!

[@balajimulik]

Just amazing work!

[@eliasmendezlicitra808]

Thank you so much, timing and Blocking its the hardest part for me since i usually just feel the movement and go for straight ahead, but usally is not convenient, tysm this istuff is not in the books at all

[@bayezidhossain8100]

this is a terrific keyframe animatoin tutorial,,,so helpful, you are genius, I really respect you from my heart and I hope you will give us more and more videos like this💝💝💝

[@1991alon]

The best animation video! thank you!

[@alan112223]

Alex, you're the man. Thanks!

[@BoshraAlkathir]

omg I'm so glad I found this channel!

[@pillowbull]

This is very easy to understand ^^ 🌸

[@Feli_Moonlight]

Duuude I can't believe you posted this and I totally missed it, I was struggling today with Key frames, you're the best! 😀

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey Im glad I could help :)

[@williamallotey270]

Please which app does he use to animate? I want to start learning animation

[@Fefs-yi1gf]

amazing channel! thank you , it was very informative, will put it into practice!

[@browniiemonicutte]

thanks so much im trying to practice for stop motion I cant really inbetween as I would in 2d but all the information is super clear, important and beautifully exemplified thanks for that!!

[@Christopherwilley]

Ok… for real, this is EXACTLY what I have been searching for!!! Thank you x 1000000000000000000^9

[@dasboot3420]

This is gold. Thank you!

[@lissyyy5500]

As a cpmplete beginner that was really helpful, thank you! I think I have to rewatch it a few times to fully understand

[@shern92]

Your classes are top notch and they helped me a lot! I am so much better because of you. I just hope you can make more of these classes, and would like you to know that you can simply show us the normal recording of animate UI without have to "redraw" the animate UI and also animating the UI. That must've taken you a lot of time! Anyway, that's just a personal comment to ease your workload to create these wonderful classes. Sincerely love your work.

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Haha yeh. I won't be doing the fake UI again. Glad you enjoyed!

[@OscarTorresWork]

Awesome video great workflow especially for any software thank you!

That was really helpful and enjoyable! Thanks for sharing :)

[@skateboardbruh]

This is amazing, not into Animation but I might just try to learn because of this video!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Can't wait to see what you make!

[@billiesguitar]

So helpful! Complete beginner to adobe animate here with coursework due soon!

[@bank8489]

this was a great video!

[@tomsouzas]

Perfect! Muito bom!!!

[@JeffSans]

Amazinggg. I love it. Now im excited and scared to do it

[@venverza3424]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Hey no sweat!

[@santiagoolagaray5974]

Impressive skills! Thank you for sharing.

[@keke_the_human]

This feels so easy to do now ! Thank you !!!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

So glad!

[@Atomic-toons00]

Is all about how to keep the track of animation smooth asf

[@Trogen-uo9gb]

thanks man, this massively applies to 3d animation.

[@thichuyen1597]

Worked smoothly, tysm

[@enshen2190]

This is so smart bro! Thanks! I think you got a new sub

[@fewocious6774]

literally this jus saved my life

[@KingZypt]

One word for this guy LEGEND

[@miguelestevao7768]

Very very good and simple to understand. Thats not easy to achieve! Thank you!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Pinkiepieisawsome]

Love this video

[@Sketching4Sanity]

Really dope and helpful content! Thankx! 🙏🏿😁

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Love your content man! Keep it up!

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Oh hey thanks Brookes. I just found your channel. Great ideas up there

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Oh hey thanks Brookes. I just found your channel. Great ideas up there

[@GaryHCM]

this is the best animation channel on youtube😁...belle animazioni

[@AlexGriggAnimation]

Wow, thanks! I'm glad youre enjoying the classes :)

[@seth_bortner]

This is so beautifully done and your style has such an approachable feel, I'm really inspired! Thanks and looking forward to more!

[@fahmimuhammad3279]

Wonderful, big thanks 🙏 ❤