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Here is a collection or work by of artists, animators and designers who inspire our project. Below, we’ve analyzed some of their animations to better help us learn how to break down the process of animation.
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Clockwise from top left:
Alexis Jamet, Kezia Gabrielle, Zhong Xian, and  Molly Fairhurst


Clockwise from top left:
Emily Downe, Alfonso De Anda, Molly Fairhurst and Clara Liu




Artists Who Do Frame Animation



Anna Firth    @tallgrill

Anna is a frame by frame whiz, and a master of ‘weaving loops’. She has lots of traditional animation tutorials available for free on her website. 

 
   

 


Nora Rodriguez   @noraphone

Nora is another frame-by-frame whiz. She uses lots of hand-drawn techniques and is able to achieve a lot of interest with a low amount of drawings.

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Molly Fairhurst  @molly.fairhurst

Molly rules at making animations that are rough yet engaging. She spends more time creating the artwork and less time breaking down the movement in lots of frames.  She often uses the boil technique (redrawing the exact same image over and over without adding movement).
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Luca di Battista  @luca_di_battista

Luca is another master of ‘doing a lot with a little’. Most of these animations are not terribly complex, but the art is bold and inventive so the final result is really energetic and effective.

 





Alice Bloomfield  @bl00mfield

Alice is another master of frame by frame and hand-drawn approach. She has a really unique, highly detailed style. Everything feels very organic. 

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Anna Mills  @annam.lls

Anna Mills is mostly famous for her high-personality hand-drawn letter forms. But she is also master of making simple frame-by-frames look really nice, like she does here in this third example. 

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...and a little peek at her process!

We can tell my the drawings that the flower on the left is 17 frames or more. It seems like she is just eyeballing / guessing how the flower should grow and bend from one drawing to the next. Impressive!

 




Clara Liu  @claraliu_
 
Clara Liu really understands how to combine minimal line drawings with natural movement. The first example is based of the character Joan from Madmen.

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Sara Hagale @shagey_

Sara is more of an illustrator per se, but has made some incredible frame animations. What she did in that first example with the legs is really brilliant—by repeating and offsetting the pair of legs, we get a really visually dazzling animation without her having to think about and draw lots of different objects and styles of movement.

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Marine Buffard @becomingamorningperson

Marine uses an iPad to do her frame animations. She sticks to using two contrasting styles in her art: delicate pencil lines and fuzzy, non-outlined color shapes or “fills”. She combines these two distinct styles in all of her work. This adds visual interest to her animations and gives her a really distinct, recognizable personal style as an art and animator.





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Aran Quinn  https://aranquinn.com/

Gah.  Aran is such a master natural, life-like movement. Very cool to reference and aspire to.


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FRAME - BY - FRAME (frame dissection)
Above: Dissecting scenes from Zhong Xian’s film, Space. 



Above: Dissecting scenes from an animation by Luca Di Battista.



Above: Cute boiling character by Hiller Goodspeed.











Motion Graphics & Other Techniques

Below are examples of motion graphics and other techniques that don’t require you to draw out the frames. 




Violaine & Jérémycreated these animated posters. They are just about creating interesting art / shapes and then applying motion to them (move across screen, rotate, etc). This is typically done in  AfterEffects.









  

Shira Inbar creates gorgeous motion graphics. No drawing! The lip posters simply combine motion tools with collage elements—in this case, cut off photos of lips wearing lipstick.




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Chloe Scheffe

These are actually outtakes from cover concepts from a design project, but when presented as an animation (a series of still images), they create a really cool collage-style animation that once again, requires zero drawing!







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