From the course: Cinema 4D Essential Training: 3 Cameras Animation and Deformers
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What is a keyframe? - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D Essential Training: 3 Cameras Animation and Deformers
What is a keyframe?
The word keyframe is a term that is used all the time in computer animation, but it has it's origins in traditional animation. When an animator draws an animation on paper, rather than try and draw all the frames at once, he'll draw out something called a keyframe and that's an important moment in a cycle of movement for a character. And that's where the terminology comes from. A keyframe is an important moment in time. That's the same for traditional animation and it's the same for computer animation. Now, I'm here in AfterEffects and I've got this little scribble character that I've drawn that is going to be jumping up in the air and then landing back on the ground. In this first composition I've got just the key moments in the animation drawn out. So you can see he's going to start with his hands up in the air, he'll squat down and then he'll squat down a little bit further in anticipation of his jump up and he'll jump into the air. He'll hit the top of his jump and then he'll…
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