Animating from Pencil to PC: Rough Motion Sketches

Curious how home animation - or any animation - starts off? This tutorial details the basics of creating an animation at your own desk, using just a light tracer, copy paper, a non-photo-blue pencil, and a 2B pencil. Animations aren't created as part of a single frame-by-frame process in which each detailed drawing is fully realized immediately; they start off as rough sketches to capture the motion, which is then refined before detail is added to the drawings. This lesson will show you how to get started on your basic rough sketches.