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Shifting weight and arcs

Shifting weight and arcs

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Shifting weight and arcs

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Once you block out your poses, the next step is to add some weight and balance to your character. Now, here I have the basic poses that I've blocked out. Here at frame one is the initial pose. That pose is repeated at frame 12. And then at frame 24, we have our second pose. So, let's go ahead and just play this. As you can see, we have time to read the first pose, and then a nice gentle transition between poses. Now, let's focus on that transition, and as you can see, it looks fluid, but it doesn't look realistic, so we need to add some more weight and a little bit more oomph to this. So let's take a look at the hips. I'm going go ahead and just mark out the position of the hip here and then scrub over to the other frame here. In fact, let's go in the middle, let's see where it is in the middle. And again, this is where the hip is and then again, here we have another point. And as you can see, these three points basically trace out a straight line, so he's going in a straight line…

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