Animating in 2D: Breakdowns and Thumbnails
44mBeginner2018-02-16
Authors

Dermot O' Connor
Animator for Disney and Don Bluth
Course details
When you plan scenes in advance by animating breakdowns and thumbnails, you can enhance the quality of your animation and add interest to your scenes. In this course, Dermot O' Connor shares his time-tested techniques for animating breakdowns and thumbnails. Dermot begins by going over the basic principles, and then moves on to a discussion of breakdowns-including basic turns and reactions. He wraps up the course by covering basic, intermediate, and advanced thumbnail concepts.
Skills covered
2D AnimationAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Thumbnail and breakdown principles
1. Breakdowns
- 03 - Basic turns
- 04 - Basic reactions
- 05 - Breakdowns intermediate
- 06 - Breakdowns advanced
2. Thumbnails
- 07 - Thumbnails basic
- 08 - Thumbnails intermediate
- 09 - Thumbnails advanced
Conclusion
- 10 - Next steps