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#thinklikeananimator

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#thinklikeananimator

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Kevin Grant Zack Sultan zsultan.tumblr.com @ZackSultan kevinthebigapple.tumblr.com @kevingrant5

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1. Animation’s early history 2. Properties of animation 3. How do you make it good?

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30,000 years ago 1. #thinklikeananimator

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Chauvet Cave

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Phenakistoscope (1841)

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Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

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Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)

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Alice’s Wonderland (1923)

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The Old Mill (1937)

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Nearly all good animation is based on 4 properties. 2. #thinklikeananimator

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You can animate anything* with these four properties. #thinklikeananimator

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What makes good animation? 3. #thinklikeananimator

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1930s

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12 Principles of Animation Collected by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas “The Illusion of Life” (1981) #thinklikeananimator

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1. Squash and Stretch 2. Anticipation 3. Staging 4. Straight ahead action vs. pose to pose 5. Follow through and Overlapping action 6. Secondary action 7. Slow in and Slow out 8. Arcs 9. Timing 10. Exaggeration 11. Solid drawing 12. Appeal #thinklikeananimator

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1. Squash and Stretch 2. Anticipation 3. Staging 4. Straight ahead action vs. pose to pose 5. Follow through and Overlapping action 6. Secondary action 7. Slow in and Slow out 8. Arcs 9. Timing 10. Exaggeration 11. Solid drawing 12. Appeal #thinklikeananimator

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1. Squash and Stretch 2. Anticipation 3. Staging 4. Straight ahead action vs. pose to pose 5. Follow through and Overlapping action 6. Secondary action 7. Slow in and Slow out 8. Arcs 9. Timing 10. Exaggeration 11. Solid drawing 12. Appeal??? ??? #thinklikeananimator

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6 Weird Tricks of App Animation #thinklikeananimator

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1. Direction 2. Ease 3. Anticipation, overshoot, and spring 4. Overlapping action 5. Timing 6. Consistency #thinklikeananimator

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Direction 1. #thinklikeananimator

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Bad direction #thinklikeananimator

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Custom example: Photo lightbox

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Custom example: Photo lightbox

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Example: Default back button

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“Meaningful transitions”

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Good animation is wayfinding #thinklikeananimator

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Ease 2.

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Frames “In betweens”

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In betweens

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Time Position

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Linear Eased

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Custom example: page reveal Custom example: page reveal Linear motion Ease

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Linear (Default) 1 2.5 5 ?

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Good animation is smooth. #notarobot #thinklikeananimator

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Anticipation, follow through, & spring #3

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Time Position

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Time Position

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Squash & Stretch

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Squash & Stretch

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Squash & Stretch

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Squash & Stretch

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Spring is the leather texture of UI animation #thinklikeananimator

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Dots

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Good animation is invisible #thinklikeananimator

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Overlapping action 4.

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Interfaces have skeletons #thinklikeananimator

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Say no to glop #thinklikeananimator

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Say yes to Spine #thinklikeananimator

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#minsdk21 Architect for animation #thinklikeananimator

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• Tightly Coupled • Inflexible • Hard to iterate Single Activity

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Dual Activity

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Good animation creates hierarchy #thinklikeananimator

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Timing 5.

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~300ms Golden timing: #thinklikeananimator

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700ms

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Never block user interactions #thinklikeananimator

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Good animation feels responsive. #thinklikeananimator

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Consistency #6 #thinklikeananimator

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Gmail search Play games

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Good animation is, above all, consistent. #thinklikeananimator

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A few last thoughts #thinklikeananimator

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You can be an animator #thinklikeananimator

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Design for the latest and greatest Gracefully degrade later #thinklikeananimator

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Less crazy, more better #thinklikeananimator

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