THE IMPORTANCE OF TIMING IN ANIMATION

Animation is all about filling life into the character, and while you’re filling life you have to make sure that their actions are perfectly timed. If our favorite Jerry is one microsecond late in jumping over the fence, Tom would catch it, and how dreadful that would be!

The animation institute apart from teaching tools and techniques of animation, puts a lot of focus on the timings of the animated characters. Whether it’s a 25 seconds animated ad or a 3 hours long animated movie, timing is what helps a project tell a story. Here’s a list of some of the methods and tips of how to obtain a perfect timing for a neat performance.

•    Stopwatch: A stopwatch can be very helpful to attain a match. Quite a hard work I know- but the hard work is sure to pay you off!

•    Go slow: There is no scope of mismatch in an animated game or an animated film. The animation studios go as slow as they can to match with the one hundredth part of the second and it surely requires a lot of patience! Move your character slowly to practice the timing. Slow and steady will undoubtedly win the race.

•    Frame by frame: Use multiple frames to denote multiple acts. Do not try to limit your drawings. Instead use as many frames as you can to highlight even the smallest of change in the expression of your character.

•    Trial and error: Timing is a crucial thing to play with. Since it requires personal experimentation to achieve an expertise in timing, keep trying the things out. No matter how many replays does it take, make error and try again. Finally, you will find the acts in sync with the sound and dialogues.

So make your animated ads, films and games and time your characters, because timing is what gives meaning to animation!

Animated Films - A Late Entrant to the Oscars

So here’s the somewhat unbelievable truth about the Academy Awards and animated films –there wasn't even a permanent category for animated movies till the year 2001! So imagine globally beloved ‘Lion King’ not having won an Oscar for best animation, or even, best film (sure, they won Oscars for music, but that’s just not the same as ‘Best Picture’)! If there had been a category for the best animated film in 1994 –or if animated films could compete with feature films for the Best Film altogether- then Lion King would have definitely bagged both those awards, eh?

But that’s the somewhat unfortunate tale of animated feature films at the Oscars. The Academy was rather hesitant about creating an exclusive award for animated films sooner because they asserted that there just weren't enough productions to compete for an award each year at all. But with the advent of technology and animated films growing not only in popularity but also in number, the Academy had no option but to introduce a brand new category for the Best Animated Feature in the year 2001. And thus in 2001 commenced the short history of animated films at the Oscars.

Yet, the new category of best animated feature did not come without a set of rules and regulations. For instance, the Academy defined an animated feature film as one with a running time of at least 40 minutes in which the characters’ performances are created using frame-by-frame techniques, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation absolutely must figure in no less than 75% of the running time. Moreover, they also included a rule that stated that the award would not be presented in a year with less than 8 eligible films in the running.

Now since the year 2001, a series of absolutely stunning films have won the Oscar. With the animation industry growing at a rapid rate, if you've been inspired to enter the field of animation, then there are a number of animation studios and Animation Institutes In Delhi that could offer you the education you need. With no scarcity of animation studios and Animation Institutes In Delhi and across the country, there’s nothing stopping you from living your dream –not even the Academy!