From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
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Plotting arcs
- [Instructor] This animation is from my course on walk cycles. Let's take a look at how I plotted the arcs, to make sure that all those arms swings are smooth. Traditionally, when we were animating on paper, you would test your arcs by putting a clean sheet of paper over your drawing, and then plotting the points of any part of the body that you were worried about. Let's look at the right wrist, with the blue dot, and we will go through each key frame, and just make dots. After a few dots emerge, your arc pattern should become obvious, and then you can see if your body part is following a very nice plot. That's what we call a figure eight, and that's beautiful. As long as the wrist parts follow that arc path, and don't do anything locally, I think we'll be fine. We can even plot the in-betweens. This is also important, because the in-betweens, these little black tick marks, they show us the accelerations and the decelerations.…
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