From the course: Animating in 2D: Loosening Up

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Loosen with a reversal

Loosen with a reversal

From the course: Animating in 2D: Loosening Up

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Loosen with a reversal

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- [Instructor] One trick that we often use to loosen up our animation and also to give us strong poses into the bargain is the principle of using reversals, also good, strong line of actions. So you have to have a good, strong line of action, and then reverse that into another drawing with a similar good attribute. So let's take a look at this guy. And he looks angry, looking down at the ground. And then we reverse him into another pose that's built around a different line of action. So I've shown this by going from blue to red. The color change represents a reversal in the line of action, and it's a rough line that goes from the base of the feet to the top of the head. And here we reverse him into an S-curve. Now, the trick I find with these lines of action is to keep them simple, C-curves and S-curves, and you go from one into the other as you need. So we go, again, from this into yet another reversal, a strong pose here, and another one here. It's pretty vertical, so they don't…

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