Thursday, 11 March 2010

Animation Technniques - Slow In and Out

When animating characters in a realistic style the process of Slow in and slow out must be introduced or else it will look like they are just instantly stopping and starting.

The movement of the human body, and most other objects, needs time to accelerate and slow down from a major movement. For this reason, an animation looks more realistic if it has more frames near the beginning and end of a movement to display a build up to the motion. This principle goes for characters moving between two extreme poses, such as sitting down and standing up, but also for inanimate, moving objects to show the effects of gravity or a force being acted against it.

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