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Solution: An exercise with a flour sack

Solution: An exercise with a flour sack

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Solution: An exercise with a flour sack

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- [Instructor] Did you have a good time animating the flour sack? Don't worry, all animators struggle with things like arcs and secondary actions, slows ins and outs, timing, everything. It's Okay, it takes a while to get used to and honestly, it never gets better. Let's jump into the hop forward and see how I did and how I solved this challenge. Now if you watch my animation I decided to take a lot of the little bits of him and jiggle them around, especially his stomach, and I took the little top parts and overlapped them a whole bunch. And then I went ahead and tracked all the arcs on his main body and made sure that his feet were also traveling in some pretty good arcs. So let's take a look at everything and see how I solved it. The first thing that I decided to do was to add just a little bit more of an anticipation to the anticipation. So what I mean by that is he bends straight down and compresses, so I had him go down more and more, but right before then, and we can probably…

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