From the course: Animation Foundations: Fundamentals
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Overlap and follow-through
From the course: Animation Foundations: Fundamentals
Overlap and follow-through
Overlap and follow through are very important animation principles that will add life to your projects. Overlap basically means that things in a system don't always move at once. If you move one part of a system, the rest of the system moves along. Here we have a simple ball on a string. If we apply force to the top of the string, it pulls the string to the right. If the ball follows along exactly with the string, the whole system doesn't look natural. Looks like one solid mass. In reality, the ball wouldn't move exactly with the string. The ball wants to stay put, it takes a while for the ball to accelerate to the string's speed. This causes the ball to drag behind the string by a few frames. When this drag is added, the ball looks more natural. The heavier the ball, the more it drags behind. If the string moves the other way, the ball has to change direction. This means it has to decelerate to 0, and accelerate in the opposite direction. This again causes the ball to lag behind the…
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