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Overlap: Advanced

Overlap: Advanced

From the course: 2D Animation: Tips and Tricks

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Overlap: Advanced

- [Instructor] This is an animation I did for a course on secondary animation dealing with hair and clothing and it's a nice example of how to plot these extremely intricate hair shapes, especially the kind of characters that you see in classic Disney or Warner Brothers or Don Bluth style movies. But the one thing about it, as one of my students pointed out on LinkedIn's website on the forum there, on the feed there, is that they all come together at the same time and so it does lack a certain kind of natural movement and that's absolutely true, that was deliberate. There was more than enough to be worried about plotting all the arcs and making sure that all the bits move. But at the, the thing that's really going to push this into a higher level of subtlety and quality is the application of overlapping actions so that they don't all arrive at the same time. So let's get rid of all the arcs and that business and now we're going to apply some very subtle overlapping action and suddenly…

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