Aaron’s Art Tips #16 - Overlapping Action in Animation
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Aaron’s Art Tips #16 - Overlapping Action in Animation
The 5th principle of animation is “Overlapping Action”, also sometimes referred to “follow through” or “drag”. It’s when an appendage, piece of clothing, or such gets pulled along behind the action and overlaps the main action. I decided to use Camilo from Encanto for this and use his hair and poncho to demonstrate this principle, but I might’ve gotten a little too carried away with the transformation lol
Things I learned:
How to do a looping animation
That I need to exaggerate the motions a bit more
Camilo is fun to draw :3
Y’all should watch Encanto by the way, it’s amazing
Poke-Principle of Animation 06: Overlapping Action and Follow Through Often confused for Secondary Action, Overlapping Action is motion that occurs in reaction to the “Primary Action.” Here the Primary Action is Oddish bouncing, and the leaves are the Overlapping Action as they get dragged from side to side. Follow Through refers to action that continues after the primary action, if Oddish were to stop bouncing, the leaves would continue to bounce until gravity brings them to a stop. Other common examples of OA and FT are cloth and hair.
Animation assignment #2 I finished this weekend - head turn with a hat, showing primary action (the head) and secondary action (the hat).
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians
Some more animation practice. Let's get those flags waving!
bouncin :D