Side Step 03 – Flipbook

Posted by Avner Engel in Animation, Flipbook

This time I revisited the flipbook of the extended side step test I started after watching Jason‘s tutorial. The main problem I had with the shot was inconsistency, the timing, arcs, overlaps and drag weren’t working well together the entire shot.

To avoid confusion, what I did next was deleting all the breakdowns and inbetweens I had. I found it less distracting to work with the golden poses only.

Then I roughly timed each pose for 15 frames (more or less) and then started to add breakdowns by favoring the previous frame.

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Reworking this shot after watching the weight shift tutorial Jason did really helped me to put a little bit more emphasis on where the weight is at all time during the test. I know that the character hops from one side to the other more than it actually shifts any weight, but it still helped me understand and implement that concept into my poses and my spacing.