Anticipation and Follow Through
As shown earlier in this example, these two can be built in from the beginning. You don’t have to do so, but you will probably find that as you continue to animate you will start to think of these sorts of things ahead of time, giving you an opportunity to create a stronger launching point for the rest of your work. You may be tempted to try little tricks to save time by creating follow through and anticipation keys by extracting points from within the interpolation of the main action, but I advise you to avoid it. Both anticipation and follow through are valuable cues to your audience in that what’s happening is believable and dynamic, and each deserves its own carefully crafted pose.
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