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Animating a splash

Animating a splash

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Animating a splash

- [Instructor] Let's take a very quick Birdseye view of how you go about animating a natural effect like a splash. And if you're from a character background, these kind of things can be really intimidating, or off-putting because of the fluid nature, the chaotic nature of the thing we're trying to animate. Let me show you some techniques that I use just in the general sense, to help me get that kind of fluid, natural look. First thing to remember is the impact of the raindrop, whatever's causing the splash will be at an angle. In this case, vertical impacting on the X, so we will have that central splash, the tower, you know, go right up, right down. If this were a stone going into the water, you might get a more angled splash pattern produced from that. So, bear in mind what's causing the splash and how big it's going to be and how much time it's going to take. This is a typical raindrop, splash, that's it. And have a…

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