How to Be a Faster Animator

HOT-COCOA SHOW! Now that we're in our third month of the #RubberOnionBattle (check out January & February's compilation video in the links) I thought that a discussion about improving the speed and efficiency of your animation was appropriate. I get this question a lot and you can check out my detailed list on the companion blog post by clicking here! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016: "Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Flash" Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (9:52) What animating "faster" means (16:05) Planning and talking about process (36:03) Working with character rigs and staying organized (48:19) The importance of Hotkeys (51:56) Using program Extensions (58:44) Smears & other tips (1:06:09) Reusing Keys from previous work (1:12:17) Refining your character designs   Media Referenced During this Episode: #RubberOnionBattle Feb 2016 Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo And please Rate/Review us on iTunes  Subscribe on SoundCloud  ... and Rate/Review us on Stitcher while you're at it! (=