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Animating hair and clothing

Animating hair and clothing

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Animating hair and clothing

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with the little generic bubble boy, we have an androgynous figure here, but what if you wanted to start, you know, building out this kind of thing and do something a little more interesting like maybe that? And notice now that we've started to give it more personality. They don't stick, they don't feel stiff. Now, one problem that I've had has been animated with puppets. If you work in Flash and you're working with a puppet system, often, it can be difficult if not impossible to do this so I recognize some people may not be able to go this far with it, but I want to show you the general process and also, if you are working with a rig system or a puppet system in Harmony or Flash or Animate CC, it's sometimes possible to do a hand-drawn layer and I've done that before with things like tails and I just animated them straight ahead, using the same process that you see here and I found it very effective. So, depending on your character, you might be able to apply this or not. If you're…

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