From the course: Animating in 2D: Breakdowns and Thumbnails

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Breakdowns intermediate

Breakdowns intermediate

From the course: Animating in 2D: Breakdowns and Thumbnails

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Breakdowns intermediate

- [Instructor] Now, we'll look at how to apply breakdowns to more complex actions. This time, we have three key frames. It's a simple punch. The character starts in frame one, moves into an anticipation to the punch on frame 15, and hits on frame 21. I'm working on 30 frames per second. You can work on 24, if you'd like, I'm not going to bother you about it. Let's take a look at the frames. So, these are our three key poses. And, that produced the animation that you've already seen. Now, here they're overlayed on top of each other, and, I've color-coded them for clarity. So, green's on the bottom, then blue, with the latest one, in dark gray, right on the top. So, you could see the relative space. So, now I'll show you the keys with the crude breakdowns. These are the basic breakdowns. Nothin' fancy, just halfway between. And, when you arrange these in a row of five, with their frame numbers, we have these five poses. The key frame, the breakdown, the key frame, the breakdown, the key…

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