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The foundations of animation

The foundations of animation

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The foundations of animation

- [Instructor] This will show us some of the materials that I used in my 21 Foundations of Animation course, which is also in the library. So I wanted to animate one single scene that embodied as many of those foundational principles as I could squeeze into. So let's take a look at keys and breakdowns. Here is a very quick turn, and I've overlaid on the bottom, the entire range of keys and you'll see them in black. In red, the breakdown frames, the breakdowns are the more important transitional drawings between the keys and these also contain important actions. So you might add something on a breakdown drawing. So here we look at number 17, notice how the foot is lifted off the ground. Now that would not have been the case if I hadn't put that in. So we're right to give 15, 17, 19, and 21 to somebody to in between by hand, they would not have put number 17 lifting off the ground. So that was an animation decision and…

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