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Animating weight and balance

Animating weight and balance

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Animating weight and balance

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Now once you have your major poses and holds blocked out, the next step is to start adding intermediate poses, in other words, poses that help with the transition between poses. So let's go ahead and play what we have first. >> 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 some good, basic poses, but we're not really getting a lot of weight between these poses here. So one of the things I want to look at is this space between this pose here and this one. If I slide this, you'll notice that it's just a straight transition. So as you can see, the pose basically just goes along a straight line. You see it just goes straight along that line, but what we really want to do is we want this to move along an arc. So I want this to actually dip down and then come up. So I need to create an intermediate pose or middle pose, in order to dip that and that's really just standard weight and balance transfer. So as a character…

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