Week 3: Poses & Arcs in Motion Animation.

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Animation Structure: RECAP.
'Key' Poses & The Layout Artist:
- Are where you would have your main keyframes set and camera movement/scene that the characters are enacting.
- Here they are trying to describe the scene within the main key actions.

Extreme poses are big describing actions, that are usually over exaggerated to add emphasis.

In-betweens help create Bias and speed within a scene and help with timing.

Breakdown poses are additional key frames in-between the extreme and in-between poses' to help create fluidity and smoothness between frames. In Maya the system is automatically set to do this.

*interpolation is inbetweening, or filling in frames between the key frames.

*Stepped means that there is no change in values between two keys. With spline, the computer automatically adds in-betweens values between two keyframes. (Animschool Blog, 2017)









Playblasts of key extreme and in-between poses'



Reference video:


Bibliography:

Animschool Blog (2017) Stepped or Spline?. At: http://www.animschoolblog.com/2017/07/stepped-or-spline.html#:~:text=Stepped%20and%20spline%20refer%20to%20the%20way%20your,two%20main%20ways%20of%20starting%20out%20when%20animating. (Accessed 03/11/2020) in-text citation: (Animschool Blog, 2017).


 

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