A couple weeks ago, Scott Lemmer, mentor extraordinaire, gave us a really handy tip, so I thought I would share it.

If you have a CRT monitor, you can use a dry-erase marker to write directly on your screen. It’s really helpful if you go frame-by-frame through your animation and either plot out where something is on each frame, or where you want it to be. Then you can just wipe it off.

This works great for bouncing balls, which is why Scott told us about it, I’m sure, but I’ve also been using it on isolated body parts in full character animation to try to make sure that I’m getting arcs in my motion. It’s working great there, too!

Super handy!!!