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Adding secondary motion

Adding secondary motion

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Adding secondary motion

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At this point we've got the major poses blocked out. We have our main poses, we have our holds, and we also have shifts in weight and balance. Now all of this together plays like this. >> This is way too much for me. This is way too much for me. This is way too much for me. >> So as you can see, we've got the major animation blocked out. Now this is the point where we're going to start finessing the animation. And we're going to be going back and forth, to really get this animation fluid. Now I can't show you the entire process, but, let me show you some basic techniques. We're going to focus on, moving holds, anticipation, overlap, and follow through. So, let's go ahead and just start at the beginning of the animation. Now the first thing I'm going to focus on is this first gesture. She goes this. Now the hand is really just doing a straight in between from here to here. Now if we want to add a little bit more pop to this we can break the wrist to add a little bit of anticipation…

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