From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
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Easing and texture
- [Instructor] If you don't use easing in and easing out, your animation won't have texture. It will look very smooth. Look at the robot on the top, he doesn't have any easing in or easing out. The robot on the bottom, I have applied some slowing in and slowing out, too, so he has a much nicer motion. Look at the dots on the top arc, and you can see they're evenly spaced. Look at the dots on the bottom arc, and you can see how they're slowing in to that little spear point on the left, and then slowing out of it. And that is nice, because it gives that little pause more texture. We're seeing like gravity taking over, and then pulling him back out of it again. He also slows in to the very top of the stop position. So this is the level of subtlety that you need to be developing, because that creates a physical realism to the character that it otherwise won't have. So here's another character, again, no texture. Complete…
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