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Morphs

Morphs

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Morphs

- [Narrator] Another example of a fast animation that can kind of cover our cheat from one state into another state, is a morph or a tween. And if you're looking at getting from one shape, say a sphere or a ball, into another shape, in this case a strong man, you might wonder how do we do that? How on earth do we transition from one extreme state into another? And the beauty, same general principle is we just snap into it. So let's pause this at the ball, I'll just move back a bit. So we start with the sphere. It's very important to have an anticipation. If you're going to do a sudden snap or transition from one state to another state, and you want to cheat it, and in this case the cheat is actually snappy or it feels better to do it, then you want a good strong anticipation, to tell the audience before you go somewhere that you're going to go there. So as we squish this thing down the audience knows they're not stupid. They know if that ball is squishing, something is going on. So…

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