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Dresses

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Dresses

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- [Instructor] Clothing is a really big challenge when you animate, because it can be hard to control all these folds and make them move smoothly. You also have the design challenge of how to draw nice shapes, as well as the task of making them move well. So there's a really important design principle to remember both when drawing and animating them, and that is that the hem of a dress or a garment is constructed usually out of some kind of O shape loop or a figure eight loop, a basic form, like this. Now you can add more folds, which I've done in the middle image, as you can see right here. See this little loop? It's clearly more complex than a figure eight. I've just made a little variation around it, but the rest of the dress conforms to a figure eight loop. And I've done something similar right there, and that's okay. It's also crucial that the clothing, the dress, whatever, conforms to the body beneath it. Now in this case I've draw the anatomy before I drew the dress, and then…

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