From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
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Follow through and moving holds
From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
Follow through and moving holds
- [Narrator] Let's see how overlapping action applies to body masses and clothing. This bear is doing a really nice turn action, but would look a lot nicer if we added some overlap. We already have some drag on the belly on frame 25 and 33 to give us a little bit of secondary action as he moves up with the belly is pulling down. We need to do a little more to get some nice overlap going. So, let's have a few breakdowns. Increasing the drag on number 21 as he begins to move. This suggests that the belly is going to move quite differently than the rest because it has inertia. In frame 29, the belly's weight begins to catch up with it, flops onto the ground. By 33, it's actually on the way back up. Here's where we really start to feel the overlap on number 37. It's a huge overshoot of the belly as the mass overtakes the body and it moves up as the rest of the bear moves down. It's a nice opposing action. As the bear's body…
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