Animation Basics Project Final Video

1. Timing and spacing are both very important elements in making a smooth realistic animation. Timing is based on how far you place keyframes away from each other and is important because this decides how fast you object will be moving at any given time. All natural objects will either speed up or slow down at some point so you must calculate this, many times with an example, to make the object seem like it is really interacting with its environment and following the laws of physics. Spacing is also a very important element in making animation because it is telling your object what to do when it gets near keyframes. Not all objects will move in a linear pattern they will speed up or slow down at certain points during its movement which you have to correct the spacing to implement. For example if something is slid across a table it will be going faster at the beginning and as it reaches its last keyframe slowing down to a stop.