From the course: Applying the Foundations of Animation

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Breaking down the action

Breaking down the action

From the course: Applying the Foundations of Animation

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Breaking down the action

- [Instructor] The next step would be to do something interesting with breakdowns. A breakdown, being the biggest gap between two of the keys. And it really, really helps if we do something that's a little more interesting than just going from A to B. So I've added one here, it's quite subtle. I'll flash it here in red. So if I tunnel into the puppet, I'll be able to show you exactly what I did in close up. So it's between here and there, let's go into the head where the change happened and that's the breakdown. So we have our key frame here and we're moving into this down position. Instead of going from here and doing halfway into that smoothly, I went from here into a sort of a profile pose and then into a down pose and it creates this little head turn, this little shake, like a double-take and it just gives a very subtle little zip. What am I looking at over there? And again, in red, that's it? That is a…

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