From the course: Learning Character Animation
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Adding anticipation and follow-through
From the course: Learning Character Animation
Adding anticipation and follow-through
Let's do one more pass on this animation. So now we've got two poses, with a shift in weight and balance, so let's just play what we have. So as you can see, he's animating between those poses fairly well. He really doesn't have any overlap or follow through or any moving holes or anything like that. So let's go ahead and add some more life to this. Now the first thing I want to do is focus on the first part of this, where he's basically just holding this pose. And characters are rarely if ever still, so there's always some life to the character. So the first thing I want to do is, let's just go ahead and work with the character's hips a little bit. So what I want to do is understand where he's going. So he's basically going to be moving down. So, it might be interesting to go in the opposite direction, here. So, maybe lift his hips just slightly, to give him a little bit of life. So, I'm going to go back to this pose and I'm going to change it just a little bit. I'm going to just go…
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