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Ocean waves: Advanced

Ocean waves: Advanced

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Ocean waves: Advanced

- [Instructor] In a previous movie, we looked more at the general rolling effect, but what I wanted to show in this movie was some of the internal shapes, like how to capture that nice surface quality where you see the white part rolling and foaming and appearing to turn from one shape into another shape. As I've previously mentioned, the big mistake you would make would be to in between mechanically up and down to read the in between between number one and number nine as the closest possible point between those. That's not what we want. We need to make some strong decisions here about what the breakdown drawing should do. So let's take the first key frame and I've just assigned some letters to the various points and then on the second, I've put in where I think they should go, and this will help me as I do the breakdown to establish the speed of the wave motion from left to right and how drastically the various shapes…

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