In my current animation project, I've noticed extreme floatieness and/or poppieness. Here's a tip that I have not mastered, but does help when I learn more about it.
Okay, say we have two poses.
Two basic poses.
Now, we could do this:
but that would be very boring and slow. Now, if we made tiny little adjustments with breakdowns, and then tried to make a very broad arc in polish, we get a very poppy movement.
Or, we could do an interesting and bizarre breakdown very early on:
Ahh.. now the inbetweens will already start working out their differences. Let's continue with this train of thought.
The hips move up, creating an interesting arc. They also favor the second pose, making this action very snappy. The head actually favors the first pose, giving it intense overlap, and an opposite action.
I now give full favor to those hips! Okay, I added an anticipation down on the hips, as well as a favor. At the end of the shot, the hips land and overshoot rotation wise. The upper body drags extremely much, and then overshoots extremo mucho.
Or, we could do an interesting and bizarre breakdown very early on:
Ahh.. now the inbetweens will already start working out their differences. Let's continue with this train of thought.
The hips move up, creating an interesting arc. They also favor the second pose, making this action very snappy. The head actually favors the first pose, giving it intense overlap, and an opposite action.
I now give full favor to those hips! Okay, I added an anticipation down on the hips, as well as a favor. At the end of the shot, the hips land and overshoot rotation wise. The upper body drags extremely much, and then overshoots extremo mucho.
Now things are gettin' spicy! The first breakdown has wave in the body, creating even more overlap. The second breakdown favors into the last pose, and drags slightly.
I hope you've learned something, and comments are always welcome.
I hope you've learned something, and comments are always welcome.
