Refined Animation

(c) Complete the Refinement Passes in Your Animation

1. 1. Acting

      • Every character movement should be driven by acting

      • Animate them acting pose to acting pose. Then create in between either with tweening or addition columns of poses.

      • No character movement should be random or arbitrarily looped

   2. Anticipation, Action, and settle: 

      • Adding keyframes and or pauses just before and just after the planned animation segments. 

      • Also, motion can be briefly  forecasted and reflected upon before and after an action. 

      • For action sequences, it makes sense to cut on motion (cutting while assets are in motion)

   3. Physics: 

      • Adding easing (accelerate/decelerate). 

      • Adding realistic rotation points

      • Incorporating secondary actions,

      • implementing Multi-planing, and 

      • Use pinning (for flowing hair and clothing and subtle body movements).

   4. Rhythm: adjust everything to optimize the storytelling and rhythm.

      • Eye path (Smooth transitions from shot to shot and motion to motion as often as possible)

      • Emotional speed 

        • Drama: slow

        • Typical-just moving the story along: medium

        • Action & emphasis: fast

(d) Upload Your File

1. 5. Upload it to your Animation Google Drive folder and name the file: FirstnameLastname-Refinement-a,b,c,etc.fla (the letters denote versions)