7 Tips and Tricks for making Animations for 2D Games

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7 Tips and Tricks for Making Animations for 2D
Games
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Index

• 7 Tips and Tricks for Making Animations for 2D
  Games

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Animations for 2D Games

• Animations attract the audience very much, and
  thats why animators have to keep up with the
  latest courses and to create more sophisticated
  and more real projects in a short time.
• We decided to present you some tips and tricks
  that can help you to make great animations for
  the 2D games.

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• Here are 7 Tips and Tricks that will help you in
  the process of animation.

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1. Plan

• You should know accurately what you have to do
  before starting the animation. So before starting
  animated, you should
• 1. Take notes and write what exact movements of
  the character.
• 2. Imagine how the scene will play out and write
  down all interesting things.

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• 3. Draw some thumbnails and figure out the
  characters gestures, and last but not the least
  thing about the timing, how much time each
  section will take to happen.
• If you follow this steps, you will transform the
  concept into the scenario, and then you can give
  life to your imagination.

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2. Push the Animations to Limit

• For more interesting animations you should use
  the extremes exaggeration, attraction, etc.,
  think of others people reaction and take them to
  the limit.
• If animations use the realistic expressions and
  movements, they don't succeed because people are
  familiar with those gestures and they are not
  impressed.

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• Extreme animations draw the attention of the
  audience and surely will have more success.

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3. Make all More Alive and Bouncy

• When the animating you have to be careful at the
  character, not to look rigid.
• Even if is a simple animation you should do more
  and always keep the character moving.

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• Also, you have to add bounce to the character,
  move their fists, their knees, make breathing
  sprites that give the impression that character
  is alive and real.

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4. Pay Attention to Facial Motion

• Your character must express the natural emotion
  and view the emotion in animation you should be
  careful with the facial motion.
• Analyze the movement of the face, observe the
  gestures and you will be able to communicate an
  emotion only by the movement of the face.

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• For example, you can make a character crying by
  animating a lip waving or if you want to animate
  the character who wants to avoid laughing you can
  do it by pressing its face tightly.

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5. Create Strong Key frames

• When animating the sprites, it is necessary to
  have strong and extreme key frames to highlight
  the particular movement.
• For a great animation, you must be careful at
  sprites to be all in order, not to have an arm
  inside the torso area, etc.

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6. Limit Animations Frames

• Animators may sometimes exaggerate with key
  frames, and they tend to add too many because
  they think it will have a more impact on the
  animation.
• But this is not always a good thing, and you have
  to limit the number of frames and highlight the
  important movements.

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7. Dont Care Too Much About the Craft

• On 2D games(Gaming Designing), animators can care
  too much about the craft, particular details and
  lose sight of the content.
• You should give more attention to the whole
  image, to take care it transmit the wanted
  message to the viewers.

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