All language subtitles for 03-14-Anticipation

- [Narrator] Anticipation
is a very common rule

or principle of animation.

If we have a look to the throw animation,

the current pose will be the key pose.

A moment where the character

is releasing whatever he is throwing.

In the previous video,

we've seen that anticipation
was a motion built

to gather energy to prepare
for the next motion.

On these pose we can clearly
read the anticipation.

The whole body of the
character is leaning backward

with his arm extended backward
before he swings forward.

Anticipation of two proposes,

the first one is gathering energy

or preparing for the next motion,

but it's also a matter of readability

and strength in the motion.

This example I've
removed the anticipation,

the character is switching
from idle directly

to withdraw motion.

And compared to the animation
with the anticipation

it clearly looks less powerful
and also less readable.

So the anticipation as two proposes

prepares the audience to what is coming

and it adds strength to any motion.

Anticipation is oftenly called antic

and it can append any time in a motion.

On this double a kick,

the anticipation occur at this point.

Character jumps from idle into this pose,

raise whole body is
quashed before the release.

When we think of our bond symbol,

whenever it's quashing
when it hits the ground

we could think of it as being
some sort of anticipation.

Anticipation can be used
for any kind of motion.

It's not necessarily connected
to a strong movement.

On this animation when the
character is turning around

to check what is stuck in his back

he has a slight surprise move

and there is a little
anticipation in his head motion.

His whole body and head goes down

before going up to communicate surprise.

When an anticipation is very fast

we can call it a micro
anticipation or micro antic.

On this combo sequence

there are multiple
anticipation on the character.

I'd like to focus on two of them,

when she's moving forward
to give the first punch

she's slightly leaning and crouching

this way she will have
more power into her punch.

So this certain anticipation
fit the jab punch.

When the character is about
to dodge the mannequin falling

she slightly raises her body on two frames

before diving into this curvy motion.

Those two frame where she's
blinking with her eyes

are the micro anticipation

before she dodges the falling mannequin.

To summarize we have seen that

anticipation can be used to
gather energy before any motion.

It generally make the current
animation look stronger.

It improves the readability
of the animation

by preparing the audience
to the next move.

Anticipation can also be used
to emphasize subtle motion.

We can use very short anticipation

called micro anticipation or micro antic.