I spent a little time over the holiday brushing up on some animation techniques. Jason Ryan has a series great tutorial videos and an easy-to-use rigged robot character named Boris that goes along with the tutorials. My interest is not in the disney/warner bros. style exaggerated movement, but in the techniques themselves. Learning to identify and set poses (primary, secondary, break-down), gaining a better understanding of the graph editor, and learning to see movement (with the same acuity that I see form) are what I’m after. I’ll soon be using these techniques to animate a few characters for a project led by Tirtza Even. More about that later.