From the course: 12 Principles of Animation for CG Animators
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Principle 2: Anticipation
From the course: 12 Principles of Animation for CG Animators
Principle 2: Anticipation
- [Instructor] The principle of anticipation is all about the movement that happens right before the main action. Mastering this technique will take a lot of time but it's the big difference between making things feel robotic and lifelike. Let's take our runner for example. Right before she takes off, there's quite a bit of things happening here. First, she has this large move up to get ready for the run. Next, she does this slight push up right here. She actually goes farther back, and her neck tucks in a little bit too, right before she lifts off and starts running. But there's also a lot of small anticipations going on. For example if you look right about here her ab muscles start to tense up, as do her arms and her ankles. Her back leg starts to squeeze a little bit and she rolls back. These are smaller anticipations for the even larger anticipation that's about to happen. If we were to take out all of this anticipation, it would look pretty weird. Suddenly, we have no idea what's…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.