Rocktopus | 🐓💕さんのイラストまとめ

i saw someone say nessa looks like a splatoon character n i thought that was a cute idea

secondary animation adds a LOT to the believability of something’s movement - consider, here is pearl’s shuffle with the secondary animations removed

this is called overshooting, and you can also see this much more strongly if you watch her hand.

instead of stopping where the first arrow ends, her hand continues for a few frames before pulling back in to finally hit the target!

- overshoot
if I slow this down, you can really see what’s going on here.

if you focus on her feet first, you’ll see that anticipation build up before her foot actually over swings a little bit before finally pulling down to the floor:

in fact if i play the whole shuffle you’ll hopefully find pearl’s feet nice & easy to keep track of:

and, when you expect a movement to happen like that, it’s really satisfying when it finally happens.

this is something I really focused on playing up when animating saturday shorts pearl! compare the last kick pearl does here:

- squash&stretch
you prob picked up on this already, but i made the ball squishier! you can see this happening in real life if you watch super slowmo videos but this isnt rly about realism as it is at selling to you, the viewer, that this thing is hitting smth or moving very fast

- timing
no natural movement happens at a constant rate. moving up and down at the exact same amount and speed like in the first gif, you’re only gonna see that coming from a robot or a computer..!

So the first thing i’ve done here is change the rate of movement:

but I can actually do a lot more to make the motion here appealing and believable with just 7 frames at 12fps, than all 24 of those frames at 24fps.
this isnt down to the smoothness of it, but a few principles of animation!

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