Why Your Animation Looks Bad | Fix Floaty Movements and Other Common Animation Problems

Are you wondering why your animation looks bad? Does your animation suffer from floaty movements, or is it just unconvincing or lacking something but you don’t know what? If so, this is probably the video for you. I’ll detail some of the most common animation problems and mistakes. Learn how to fix your floaty movements, and also find out why it looks that way. Learn about the things you should stop doing if you want to become a good animator. Things like visual white noise and the lack of anticipation, action and reaction. Learn about planning and blocking your animation, and using pose to pose versus straight ahead action when animating a scene. Learn about why the graph editor only wants what’s best for you - as do I. There are more things to learn, but I’ll leave it up to you to keep watching so you can learn how to fix your animation. #animationtips #becomeabetteranimator #commonanimationproblems 0:00 - Intro and why your animation looks bad 0:17 - Blocking/Planning 1:14 - Reasons for floaty movements 1:34 - Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose 3:11 - Importance of Slow in and Slow Out 3:41 - Timing/Spacing 4:36 - Constant Movement 6:37 - Purposeless Movement 8:01 - Shifty Eyes 8:35 - Anticipation, Action, Reaction 9:29 - Over Animating 10:45 - Too Many Keyframes - Using the graph editor 11:52 - Bobbing Heads My social media: Instagram: Facebook : Twitter: