Mastering Head Turns in Animation 🎬
Learn the essential exercise for animating head turns, a key skill often overlooked by artists aiming to improve their character animation.

BaM Animation
260.7K views • May 17, 2025

About this video
Animating a head turn is one of the most fundamental parts of learning to animate. It's the perfect challenge for artists who want to perfect their character design and animation skills. Today Brent and Max show you the secrets to head turn animation the traditional way. We will use Toon Boom Harmony to traditionally animate a head turn of a character based on a design sent to us by Molly. See more of Molly's art here. #animation #characteranimation #toonboom #drawing #art
Molly : https://www.artstation.com/lich_bones
Chapters
00:00 Intro
2:09 Modifying a character for animation
2:33 Planning the Acting for Animation
5:22 Animation Timeline
6:40 Drawing the Rough Pass
7:37 Animation Cleanup
8:31 Every one makes mistakes including Brent
9:00 The Final Product!
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📺Second Channel @ExtraBaMAnimation
We have also partnered with LAZY NEZUMI. Which is an awesome drawing tool plugin for most every drawing program.
Purchase a Lazy Nezumi License with our Affiliate Link!
📐https://lazynezumi.com/?ai=bam
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BaM is dedicated to teaching artists all about the animation industry, and skills sets including character design, background design, animation, and painting! Send us your art, and BaM will make an episode about YOU!
Email Bam.redrawmyart@gmail.com
If you want to have YOUR art redrawn!
✏We have a Website and Store now!✏
https://www.brentandmax.com/
Visit our Portfolios
https://artofmaximus.com/
https://brentnoll.com/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/bam_animation
Molly : https://www.artstation.com/lich_bones
Chapters
00:00 Intro
2:09 Modifying a character for animation
2:33 Planning the Acting for Animation
5:22 Animation Timeline
6:40 Drawing the Rough Pass
7:37 Animation Cleanup
8:31 Every one makes mistakes including Brent
9:00 The Final Product!
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👍🏻Patreon https://www.patreon.com/BamAnimation
🎧Discord https://discord.gg/Cjf4Tdy
📺Second Channel @ExtraBaMAnimation
We have also partnered with LAZY NEZUMI. Which is an awesome drawing tool plugin for most every drawing program.
Purchase a Lazy Nezumi License with our Affiliate Link!
📐https://lazynezumi.com/?ai=bam
------------------------------------
BaM is dedicated to teaching artists all about the animation industry, and skills sets including character design, background design, animation, and painting! Send us your art, and BaM will make an episode about YOU!
Email Bam.redrawmyart@gmail.com
If you want to have YOUR art redrawn!
✏We have a Website and Store now!✏
https://www.brentandmax.com/
Visit our Portfolios
https://artofmaximus.com/
https://brentnoll.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bam_animation
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Views
260.7K
Likes
19.0K
Duration
10:32
Published
May 17, 2025
User Reviews
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