We were learning how to do animation in uni and I learned that there are 3 passes. The first pass is a very rigid blocking pass using stepped tangents. (Gif animations below.) Here for the first pass I keyed some of the controls at 3 frames apart and others I keyed 7 frames apart from each other to save time. cool thing is that I applied similar principles in my 2D animation class drawing at 2 frames apart but later when working on the second pass I can convert the stepped tangents to auto tangents.
Looking at the graph editor and seeing the stepped tangents for the foot controls. I can see how important it is to work in this workflow of going through 1st, 2nd and 3rd pass. Kinda like the modelling process from the basic blocking to the detailing.
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