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Tradigital Maya
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Tradigital Maya

by Lee Montgomery
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
540 pages
15h 10m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 8

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Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose

There are two main approaches to animation.

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation – Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston

“Straight ahead” and “pose to pose” are considered as distinct, different approaches to animation. With pose-to-pose animation, the animator will block in the key poses for the animation prior to working on the animation refinement. In traditional cell animation, a key animator would typically work on the key poses, while an “in-betweener” would work on the poses in-between the main poses.

In computer animation, the computer interpolates between motions through the motion curves or ...

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ISBN: 9780123852229