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Ocean waves

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- [Instructor] I recently animated a music video for Alan Parsons who might be better known from the Alan Parsons Project. And this is from the song As Lights Fall written by Dan Tracey. So that's on YouTube if you want to search for that. And you can see the whole thing. I animated all of these ink drawings that come to life. Now, this was a challenge for me because I haven't really had the opportunity in my career to do a lot of wave and natural effects animation. But because of the pirate theme of the video it was necessary to do a lot. So let me walk you through some of the techniques that I used to get that natural, very believable wavy motion. So here are the keyframes. Now, don't worry too much about getting into the entirety of this. I just want to show you the overall bird's eye view of the animation. And it's really not as many drawings as you think. The top row, one, five, and nine, that's the first key,…

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