Thumbnails and Planning

      Planning Planning Planning. Planning is one of the most important parts of animation. Without planing animating would be a nightmare, and movement would be very jarring. 

      By planning you can spend less time figuring out where to position and pose your characters, additionally planning allows you to test motion without having to go in and tediously put together each frame. Sketching out your shots also helps put together compositions that look good, being able to try different angles fast allows you to pick the best one for your shot.

     Only recently have I realized how important story-boarding, animatics, and roughs are. Time and time again would i find myself angry over how much time I had spent animating a scene only to realize it looks like bad. Eventually roughing out animation became one of the most important things in my process.