I love watching animated movies because the medium allows you to truly imagine anything you want and to put the camera anywhere. This kind of creativity is contagious. But there's a lot of technical stuff happening in animation that I am only recently coming to understand. That includes tweening, an editing technique that I just learned about today. It was an interesting topic and term, so I wanted to bring it here to explain it to all of you. Let's dive in. Tweening in Animation DefinitionTweening, which is short for "in-betweening," is a technique that creates the illusion of smooth movement by generating frames that go between two keyframes. This makes the animated motion look seamless because the in-between frames fill in the gaps.Why Tweening Matters Tweening is essential for creating believable animations that reflect the movement we see in real life. The process makes characters and objects appear more lifelike via emotions and other emotive movements. Where Did Tweening Come From? So, back in the day, animated projects were drawn by hand. That took a very long time, so to streamline the process, animators developed the concept of keyframes. Keyframes were the most important poses or moments in a movement of the character or move on screen. Assistant animators, then known as "in-betweeners," would then fill in the remaining frames to create the illusion of fluid motion. And now, we have tweening! Tweening With a ComputerNow that we have computers, most animation is not hand-drawn anymore. There's lots of good software...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 21 February