From the course: Applying the Foundations of Animation
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Secondary, overlap, and straight ahead
From the course: Applying the Foundations of Animation
Secondary, overlap, and straight ahead
- [Instructor] This movie is a big one because it's incorporating secondary action, overlapping action, and straight ahead animation. So we're going to look at these and how we can work them together. Notice that there's not much secondary action there's a little bit, but it's quite limited. And on the hair too, there's little bit of drag secondary action on the hair but that's about it. And I did this whole thing, pose to pose. In other words, I set up the first key then the last key than the middle key and blocked it in, in a very mechanical way Doesn't always produce the really nice flowing wild animation? Great way to work to have control over the scene but sometimes it can, especially with very fluid parts of the character, hair, clothing, scarves that kind of thing can be very, very difficult to get fluidity when you're doing pose to pose. So let's take a look at straight ahead animation. So I'm going to wide out my…
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Pose to pose the primary keys4m 8s
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Timing and spacing2m 27s
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Anticipation, overshoot, and settle2m 2s
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Plot arcs4m 4s
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Squash and stretch3m 31s
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Silhouette, line of action, and reversal3m 11s
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Opposing actions and counterpose4m 19s
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Leading action and breaking joints2m 51s
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Breaking down the action2m 14s
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Secondary, overlap, and straight ahead3m 38s
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Exaggeration and plussing3m 41s
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Planning the scene3m 21s
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