Best animation exercise for beginners - OpenToonz - How to animate 2D animation class [#004B]

You want to learn 2D animation? This exercise gets you started experiencing spacing, animation timing, arcs and more in a playful way using OpenToonz. Join the group mentoring on Patreon: http://animatorisland.com/group-mento... Get the mug: https://www.animatorisland.com/produc... Premium class - Fun with morphs: https://www.animatorisland.com/course... Learn of the basics how to animate in this beginner lesson of our 2D animation class. 0:00 Intro 00:51 Setting up OpenToonz 1:41 Plan the motion path with a lot of pleasing arcs. 2:40 Using the Control Point Editor 5:00 Changing the opacity of a layer 5:25 The biggest beginner mistakes in animation 6:40 The key to smooth animation 7:09 Timing charts 8:55 The halfing method for planning spacings 10:30 Onion skin 11:14 Creating the animation frames 12:22 Stretching to create motion blur 13:10 Keeping the volumes 14:24 Copying frames to stay on model 15:11 Copying on the timeline in OpenToonz 16:50 Making layer invisible 17:16 First playback 17:42 Get our cool mug! 18:31 Switching from Ones to Twos 20:11 The challenge of slower motions 20:54 Improvising straight ahead 22:53 Holding a constant speed 23:05 Fast motion in the spiral 23:57 Adding anticipation after a hold 25:29 Playing the loop 25:39 Tweaking the animation 26:41 Duplicating and offsetting the second ball 30:03 Coloring 31:03 Closing gaps 31:50 Adding different colors to the different layers