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Giant robot

Giant robot

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Giant robot

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- [Narrator] In a previous course, I showed how to integrate Animate CC, or formally known as Flash, with After Effects. And to show how that was done, I had animated a giant robot walk cycle and I wanted to do something that was fun and a bit over the top. And this guy, he's meant to be about 30 feet tall, 35 feet tall or something like that. So he has some slightly different properties in terms of like the walk cycle than you might expect from an automatical human. So I thought it's be nice to show you how I did that, how I designed the walk, because obviously I can't go to a Muybridge book and look up how to do a giant robot walk cycle. I guess I could have watched Iron Giant, but I wanted to invent something of my own, out of my own head without looking directly at an existing property. So my work process is very dependent on thumbnailing and I don't mess around with my thumbnails, I take them very seriously. I think a lot of people, when they approach a scene, they don't really…

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