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A stretchy jump

A stretchy jump

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A stretchy jump

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to the areas that are squashing and stretching, and why this is helping the scene to be a little bit more lifelike, and to get us away from a lot of the stiffer animation that you might see out there. So I've colored the body in red, and this will allow us to take a look at the body by itself. And this is the part that's doing most of the stretching. There's a little bit of stretching and squashing on the head, at the high point of the jump. Then we begin to fall, and of course as we fall, you'll begin to see some stretching and some squashing on the impact again. Let's take a look at the animation frames. Before I do that, I want to show you just the head by itself. And as I said before, there's a little squash and stretch on the head, but the head is made of bone. and stretch on the head, but the head is made of bone. I did decide, you could make a creative decision I did decide, you could make a creative decision not to squash and stretch the head. not to squash and…

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