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Weight and mass in motion

Weight and mass in motion

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Weight and mass in motion

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- [Instructor] This is an animation from my 21 Foundations course, which is also in the library. And it was done to be a very simple illustration of weight and mass, and as you can see, we're dealing with the immovable object, the big iron balls. So, let's see how we deal with large characters who themselves have mass. So I really like this design. I did it for my monsters course, and it's a cartoony Frankenstein. And you have get away from the Boris Karloff thing because it's copyrighted for one, but also it's done to death. And I wanted to do something that you probably wouldn't see in a live action movie, so this fit the bill. And then I thought, well we have to animate this guy to show big, awkward, basically like a toddler. I mean, he's just been born, doesn't know how to really walk yet. So I want him to be off balance, I want him to be heavy, very massive. So I did, rather than just work with a puppet and begin to…

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