From the course: Animating in 2D: Hair and Clothing
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Capes: Basic
- [Narrator] In this movie we'll apply drag to a simple piece of clothing, in this case, a cape. The torso I'm going to represent with a simple kidney bean shape and we'll have a long cape hanging draped from the shoulders. The numbers below represent the key frames. And just so you know my key frame numbers are on a 24 frame per second timing. If you're on 30 then you might want to adjust your numbers accordingly and that goes for all my courses. So this image overlays the capes so that you can see the distance being traveled by the torso. As you can see it's not a lot. I've color coded the different layers or the different drawings so it's slightly easier to interpret the different frames but as you can see, if you look at the black, this line here, that's where the first kidney bean, the first chest frame begins. And 44, this orange one, is the end. So we're traveling a distance little less than the distance of the chest area itself it's not much. So here is the finished animation.…
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