Introduction

A strong foundation is important to make your actions express the feeling of weight and strength behind each motion, but you can enhance the fluidity by using "layers" of refinement. It's in the details of your animations that you can really make your audience forget they are watching a virtual puppet.

With a consistent base, you'll be able to deliver animated shots of reasonable quality with tight deadlines. But as you get more generous time frames, you can work on top of this good foundation and add engaging refinements to make the shot even more fluid, entertaining, and believable. In this chapter, we'll see some useful tips to make refinements to our animated shots.