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- Activity 2: Drawing Rough Key Poses
Activity 2: Drawing Rough Key Poses
T-ANIMPA-006-011
In this topic, you will learn how to animate rough key poses using the main frame-by-frame animation features such as the Timeline thumbnails, dragging cells, increasing and decreasing exposure. You will also be able to reference other drawings in your animation using the Onion Skin, Top Light, and Easy Flipping toolbar.
Material
To complete this topic, you will need the following from the sample material you downloaded:
- MO-ANIMPA-006/011-thumbnails-animation
- MO-ANIMPA-006/011-rough-key-poses
Author
- Frank Summers
- 2D Animator
- franksummersanimation.com
Time Estimated 1 hour
Difficulty Level Intermediate
Topics List
- Activity 1: Loading a Colour Model from the Library
- About Layers and Columns
- Creating a Rough Animation
- Displaying Drawing Thumbnails in the Timeline View
- About Rippling and Overwriting the Exposure in the Timeline View
- Increasing Exposures
- Decreasing Exposures
- Extending Previous Drawing Exposures
- Dragging Cells
- Enabling the Onion Skin
- Onion Skin and Light Table Transparency Dialog Box
- Flip and Easy Flipping Toolbars
- Activity 2: Drawing Rough Key Poses
- About Marked Drawings
- Marking Drawings
- Renaming Drawings
- Extending Single Exposures
- Filling Empty Cells
- Generating a Matte
- Activity 3: Marking Drawings and Adjusting the Animation Timing
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