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Capes basic

Capes basic

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Capes basic

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- [Instructor] In a previous movie, and this is going back away, I created this very simple and graphic movie to show you how to do a secondary action on a cape. And these can be tricky because sometimes they can stick and not feel quite real. So this was a nice example of timing, just to give you a feel for, you know, what you might do to break out of it. There's some nice stuff going on here where you can see here we have this S curve and here it reverses. And then overshoots a little and settles. So let's take a look at some of the other artwork from it. That was what the cape looked like when we overlaid everything. I know it looks like a spaghetti bowl. But you can get the idea for the general placement of the different key frames. And here's what it looked like. Not too bad. But again, it does look synthetic because it was done in a basically Animate CC. So it has that kind of feel to it. The other thing to…

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