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Animating secondary motion

Animating secondary motion

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Animating secondary motion

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I've gone ahead and finished up my pass on Moving Holds and so now I have the animation a little bit more fluid. So let's just play what we have. >> I, I, I didn't, I didn't know that thing would explode! I, I,I didn't, I didn't know that thing would explode. >> So as you can see it's a little bit more fluid, but not completely fluid. So we need to add another layer, and in this layer we're going to work a little bit on secondary motion. So that's overlap, follow through, drag, and so on. Now really good place to observe secondary motion is in the arms and the hands. So, let's go ahead and play with those to get this animation a little bit more smooth. So one of the first things I'm noticing is just at the very beginning here. So let's take a look at this right arm here. And as it moves up that wrist is very solid. So we have a very stiff wrist here. And basically it's just going through those two poses. So let's go ahead and add a little bit of drag into this right wrist by just…

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