From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
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Animating hair and clothing straight ahead
From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
Animating hair and clothing straight ahead
- [Instructor] I showed you this jumping scene in an earlier movie. What happens if you want to add secondary action to this, like a tail, or clothing, or a hat? Where do you begin going about doing it? Do you add that element to each one of these drawings or is there a better way of doing it? So for me, when I began to try to do it pose to pose I had no luck. My solution was to do this. I went in an on every six frames or so I just drew in straight ahead all the tails that I wanted. Lo and behold, first time through, nailed it. But if you're having problems with loosening up things, like clothing, for me one solution has been to animate them straight ahead on fours, or sixes, or eights. In other words, every fourth frame, every sixth frame, or every eighth frame to put in your key frame depending on how fast you want it to move. So then I began to add some in-betweens, softening nicely, and then when I cleaned that up…
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