LINKS:
Keith Lango's fantastic tutorial on pose to pose animation with Maya. Part1. Part2.
Kevin Koch on the anatomy of a shot.
Workflow breakdown of a Puss In Boots scene from a dreamworks animator.
Animator TJ Phan steps through his work flow.
Kevin Koch on animating from the gut.
Kevin Koch on getting a fresh perspective on your work after you have been focused on it for a long time.
Focus on constant improvement like the pro's
Glen Keane talks through his process for planning and animating a scene.
Jason Ryan's stick figure Video tutorial.
Jason Ryan's flip book Video tutorial. (If asked for a password type: JRA)
Eric from the great Midnight Diaries of Catty Wampus Blog beautifully illustrated the benefits of flicking back and forth through your frame.
To IK or FK. TJ talks us through some of the pro's and cons of Forward and Inverse Kinematics.
A great posts from Stephen Gregory, its an overview of what he teaches, but I think it makes for a great scene checklist.
From The Animated Cartoon Factory a whole page of links that makes for a nice overview of the animating process.
I have mixed feelings about teaching process, the risk of trying to push a square student into a round hole can have some nasty consequences. But this process overview from Mike Walling is so simple and to the point I find it hard to imaging it not being useful to most students.
