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Animate the spin

Animate the spin

From the course: Advanced Mechanics in CG Animation

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Animate the spin

- [Instructor] Alright, now let's focus on one more piece in this awesome fight scene. It's the spin. Did you see it? It happens right here. It's actually really complex to do this. There's multiple touches of the feet, one, two, three, four. And, of course, the hips are going all around and the hands are changing position quickly. For the purpose of this video I'm just going to focus on the hips and the feet and leave the hands more or less in the same position. So let's start right about here, with the first contact of the foot. You want to go ahead and just key it right where you need to be. And remember, you're looking for the intent of the live action, you don't need to match it necessarily, you're just looking for the intent. So, for example, there's a nice C curve in his body, so I want to make sure that in our animation we get that similar C curve. Okay, now let's bring her neck back a little bit and let's bring her head as well. Now these hands are coming down pretty quickly,…

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