Animating from Pencil to PC: Rough Motion Sketches

With that in-between drawing, you now have a basic, jerky three-frame animation, with a starting, middle, and ending point. Now all you have to do is keep in-betweening to smooth the animation out; take this entire process from step six, and using your first key and your first in-between, create a second in-between drawing the position of your character between those two points. Do the same with the first in-between and the second key. Depending on how far your character moves in a time frame, you may be done at that point, or you may need to keep filling in more and more in-between frames.

Keep filling out your in-betweens in rough sketch for now, and in the next lesson we’ll move on to basic detail.