Scott O'Neil - Forum 3: Animate!

 Forum 3: Animate!

   Anticipation

        When creating my walk animation, I was focusing on anticipation in a couple of the keyframes by getting ready for the walk. The anticipation can be seen in the legs getting ready to transition the weight from one foot to the other, thus showing the character getting ready to walk. This is a way of showing anticipation because it "is used to prepare the viewer for an action" (Cooper, pg. 30).

Follow-Through and Overlapping Action

    In this keyframe you can see the overlapping action of the tail as it is moving along with the feet, the tail is moving at the same time as the feet but is not at the same rate, which shows that the "different parts of a character's body will move at different rates" (Cooper, pg. 32).

Arcs

    This charcter has a few arc keyframes in the walk animation, one of which is the arms swinging while he is walking. Another is the way that his legs swing while he is walking during the keyframes, this shows arc because it is doing things "such as arms and legs swinging while walking" (Cooper, pg. 35).