Summary The Animator's Survival Kit

Animator’s Survival Kit
History of the chart and inbetween


THE EXTREEMS AND THE INBETWEENS

EXTREME INBETWEEN EXTREME

1 5
2 3 4




ARC OF ACTION
ALSO CALLED:


- ‘BREAKDOWN’
DRAWING
- ‘PASSING POSITION’
BETWEEN TWO
EXTREMES
EXTREME 1 5 EXTREME

3

, ARC OF ACTION

EXTREME EXTREME

1 BREAKDOWN 5
INBETWEEN PASSING POSITION INBETWEEN
2 3 4




TO ADD SLOW EFFECTS:

YOU CAN CREATE A SLOW EFFECT
BY ADDING MORE INBETWEENS

TERMINOLOGY:
- SLOW OUT / EASE OUT 1 7
- SLOW IN / EASE IN 2 6
3 4 5
THE SLOWER YOU WANT YOUR SLO
ANIMATION, THE MORE EA W O N
SE U WI
INBETWEENS YOU ADD OU T SLO E IN
T EAS
KEN HARRIS CALLED IT 1 7
‘CUSHIONING’ 2 3 4 5 6




‘Animation has to have change of shape’ - Eric Larson