Animation Mentor interview with Jim Brown and Brian Mendenhall from Tippet studios. Animation Mentor tips and tricks "contrast and posing"

Keith Langos mother of all Checklists!

http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/popThru/polish.html

Cartoony Effects

http://layersmagazine.com/after-effects-cs4-cartoon-effects.html

After effects 2d filter style. If i add stars etc, i might want to make the rest of the style match a little more.

Fog Tutorial

Animation Tutorial- two characters

Stresses importance of referencing edits together best into split screen of both characters

After basic blocking, block in some expression. Eyebrows and eyes are the bits you really want to keep coming back to thoughout to refine.

Ofsetting, best way to move from pose to pose.
 Make lip sync good enough so that no-one looks at it. so that the audience will focus on the eyes Good rule is to have at least 1 in between between two different mouth shapes. This helps to prevent it looking too "chattery"

Polishing. There will probably be allot of unnecessary keys that you can get rid of. Flay curves in held poses can make a character appear lifeless. Always ensure that they are building towards the next motion.