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Animation Fundamentals
1: Bouncing Basics
  1. 01

    Simple Bouncing Ball P.1

  2. 02

    Simple Bouncing Ball P.2

  3. Simple Bouncing Ball (File)
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Pablo Fournier
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6: Advanced Body Mechanics

Weight Shift

In this video Pablo goes over the animation principles seeing in the past videos and adding new ones like Overlapping Action, Exaggeration, Consistency and Staging & Clarity and applying them to a weight shift animation made with the Sky rig.

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5 comments
Jefferson Donald
Jefferson Donald
Oct. 8th, 2020

Excellent tutorial. Very informative.

Gemma María Rull
Gemma María Rull
Sept. 20th, 2019

Great to have this base knowledge explained in detail. It is not so ovbious, even if it looks easy.

Tomhardy
Tomhardy
Sept. 18th, 2019

very handsome teacher

Pablo Fournier
Pablo Fournier
Nov. 25th, 2020

@Tomhardy O.O

Tomhardy
Tomhardy
Sept. 18th, 2019

soooooo good!i like that

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