Skillshare Live: Creating Anticipation in Animation

Dive deep into one of the 12 principles of animation to learn how anticipation can make your animations stronger.

Learning to create strong animations is about more than being a strong illustrator or understanding the inner workings of After Effects—there are some core principles of movement and storytelling that turn an okay animation into an outstanding one. In this class—recorded using Zoom and featuring participation from the Skillshare community—animation designer Bee Grandinetti gives a crash course on one of her favorite principles, anticipation, explaining why it’s so powerful and how you can introduce it into your animations.

To start, Bee will walk you through exactly why anticipation is important and show you tons of fun examples, helping you turn on your radar for noticing anticipation in animation and in life. Next, you’ll get your hands dirty in Adobe After Effects to create three different bouncing boxes to understand firsthand the power of anticipation. Finally, Bee will quickly give you a peek into how she might approach adding more anticipation when animating in Photoshop.

While anyone can enjoy learning from Bee, you’ll probably have the easiest time following along if you’re already a little comfortable working in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. Along the way, students who participated in the live session were also able to ask Bee questions, so you’ll get an even deeper understanding of how she creates animation magic with anticipation.