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Creating staggers

Creating staggers

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Creating staggers

- [Voiceover] Traditional animation made great use of staggers. So, here's a typical example, it's a basic scream. So these kind of basic screams are made with just two keys. First, a head in one position and then the second key in the ending position. So in this case, an open mouth with a scream, basically. So when you animate between these, this is how you would animate them. You would go from the bottom to the top. You'd basically slow out from one and slow into the other and that gives you this smooth motion. This is clearly not a stagger. It's a smooth opening mouth. So, normally when you expose your drawings in front of the camera, number one goes on frame one, drawing two on frame two, drawing three on three, four on four, five on five, six on six, so on. The stagger was created by taking one, two, and three and then shooting frames two and three and four and then go back one, three, four, five, then back one, four, five, six, then back one, five, six, seven. Very simple. And…

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