5. Animation

What we’ve been building up to.

As the adage goes, animation is the illusion of life.

A good animator can take a pencil drawing, a pixel, a puppet, or even a brick and make the viewer think they are watching something with an inner life.

You’ll see from the two examples below, even a walk tells a story. It’s not just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and setting the arms swinging. The walk tells you who the character is, what kind of mood they are in and where they are going.

Every kind of movement should do the same job.

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