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Leading action and breaking joints

Leading action and breaking joints

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Leading action and breaking joints

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- [Instructor] The kind of techniques that stand between the lower level of animation and quality work, there are several. One of 'em is leading actions and breaking joints. So let me show you what I mean. There's a sort of a leading action here in the poses. If you see here, we're kind of leading with the elbow. It's not too bad, kind of got away with that, but we can certainly improve it. And here I've added a very subtle lead. And what I've done here is I've moved the action, beginning with the arm. So all I did was dragged the key frame forward by a couple of frames, and then suddenly, without even having to change one drawing, I've got this nice little two-frame lead, and I pulled some of the other key frames forward a little bit too by one or two frames. That is a much stronger leading action. That's the kind of simple stuff that you can do. Let's look at some more complex forms of breaking joints. What I want to do…

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