From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
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Leading action - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
Leading action
Another principle to keep in mind when you're animating a scene is the idea of the leading action. The fact that the entire body doesn't just go moving in a given direction, usually one part of the body will lead, and the rest will follow, and that could be any part of the body, either the head can lead, the chest, the feet, and they can be quite far-fetched and cartoony, this is one of the strengths of animation; you can really push this. So, what I've done here is I've made one scene. Again, a very simple action. Just a figure standing in place, a very basic rig, and we're going to animate him reaching up. But the figure on the left will lead with his wrist. The figure to the middle will lead with his elbow, and the figure on the right will lead with his shoulder. And let's see how different these look. So, I'm going to show them just by themselves, at first. And there you can see the wrist leading, it's the first part of the body to really start moving. And it pulls, it's like it's…
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