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Opposing action: Advanced

Opposing action: Advanced

From the course: 2D Animation: Tips and Tricks

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Opposing action: Advanced

- [Instructor] So what I want to do is show you a very simple action that has an opposing action and show you how we begin to break it up a little bit, just to make it slightly more interesting. So here we have a basic gesture. He's pointing, and you can see the head's moving down while the hand moves up. That's it. It's really, really simple. Anybody can do this. So let's begin to add a few things. So what I've done on this pass is I've just put a slight drag on the hand at the bottom point. So you can see those little green arrows that's where I put a little drag on the thumb, or on the finger, the pointing finger, rather. On the next pass, I've added a little overshoot at the top of the action. And you can see there. And that also creates its own little tiny opposing action. It's an extremely subtle one. So on this pass, I overlapped the timing of the arm by a couple of frames. I just dragged the arm entirely. And you can see, if you watch the shoulder about here, right there…

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