From the course: 12 Principles of Animation for CG Animators

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Solution: An exercise with a flour sack

Solution: An exercise with a flour sack

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Solution: An exercise with a flour sack

(uplifting music) - If you took less than five minutes in the previous challenge, then you did it wrong. And I really want to stress here thinking, exploring and sketching. I want to stress study, and subtext. Understand why the character is the way they are, and how you can use things from your study to really enhance the pose. For example, I googled a lot of images of happy people. Happy moms and cute babies, and I found that they all had nice, strong, curvy shapes. So, in this case, I decided our little guy was going to have some really nice, strong curves. I focused on rotating everything and just pushing it a little further. I brought up his foot as much as I could, and really stressed how happy and joyful he was. Maybe he's just seen, say, the cutest baby on the planet or something, like that, right? And then I brought his shoulders and his hands together and made this almost kinda holding each other, in almost a bit of a prayer pose. Just wanted it to look cute, and almost…

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