From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Timing charts vs. tweening

Timing charts vs. tweening

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Timing charts vs. tweening

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- There's a subtlety of computer tweening that might not be obvious to people. If you'd compare the way we do tweens now in digital software compared to how we used to do them by hand when we hand drew all our animation. Let me show you the difference and why this might be important to you. So, here is a little pendulum swing that I created in Adobe Animate CC. I would have had a very similar result if I did this in After Effects or Toon Boom Harmony or any digital software. So, let me show you the keys I made here. This is the swing left, swing right, and then back again to complete the cycle. Now, the position of all these in-betweens looks really nice if I put onion skin on. You can see what I mean, that's perfect. I mean, it's absolutely perfect spacing and this was done by the computer. So I click on anywhere between here and most digital tweening programs and whether they're CG or whether they're a hand puppet…

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