- Modules
- Four-Legged Walk-Cycle Animation
- Activity 4: Creating In-betweens
Activity 4: Creating In-betweens
T-EXC-002-010
The key poses are done and the increments are checked. You are now ready to work on all those in-betweens. Your animation should either have 16 drawings in double exposure or 32 drawings in single exposure.
Material
You can download the provided sample material for this module and use the following templates to use as a reference to compare with your final sketch. Don't forget to unzip (uncompress) the files before placing them in your library.
- Your panther scene created in the previous exercise
- MO-EXC-002/02-panther-animation.tpl
How to create the in-betweens
- Open your Panther scene. If you do not have it, import the 02-panther-animation.tpl template.
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In the Tools toolbar, enable the Onion Skin
button. - In the Tools toolbar, select the Brush tool.
- In the Drawing or Camera view, draw the missing in-betweens using the onion skin references.
- Save
your project.
- Play back
your animation and test/correct your work. You can also activate the Loop 
button to view your animation in loops while noting the corrections you have to do.
Time Estimated 30 mins
Difficulty Level Beginner
Topics List
- Understanding How Four-legged Animals Move
- Anatomy of a Four-legged Walk Cycle
- Photo and Video References
- Four-legged Walk Basics
- Analyzing Four-legged Walk Animations
- Rough versus Clean
- Activity 1: Observation
- Activity 2: Drawing the Key Poses
- Activity 3: Adjusting the Paws for a Pan Background
- Activity 4: Creating In-betweens
- Activity 5: Cleaning and Painting Your Animation
- Activity 6: Creating a Background
- Activity 7: Setting the Animation on a Peg
- Activity 8: Animating a Bear and Dog (Optional)