From the course: RubberHose Animation with After Effects
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Arm swing and the arc principle - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: RubberHose Animation with After Effects
Arm swing and the arc principle
- [Instructor] We've added some leg movement, and I've added some arm movement to the right arm of this character. You'll see, here, I've just got a nice little arm swing in. We're going to add that same arm swing to the left arm, just so you can see how that's done. Now, it's important that we apply the principles of animation, here, so we're going to apply an arc to the movement. We're going to start by creating a linear move, so I've created keyframes here at the beginning for bend direction and position, which are the two properties that we're going to animate, and then I'm going to move to here, this next keyframe, now you can use j and k on the keyboard, or just drag the time marker to there, and then I'm going to create my second position, and I'm just going to scrub this value, just to move the arm across, and I'm also going to move it up a little bit. Now, at the moment, we've just got a straight line, but if I hold down the Command and Alt key, and that's Control and Alt on…
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