if you're new & teaching yourself animation, watch some of these sequences & ask yourself:
- how much time is spent moving VS time spent in still poses?
- when the frame is "still", what is still moving & why?
- why does the action pause so often & heavily? https://twitter.com/ChevyRay/status/1291962504646520832
- how much time is spent at the lead-up & tail-end of an action VS time doing the action action?
- how much is the camera moving vs sitting still?
- when the camera moves or pans, why does it pan? what is it following?
- when an impact happens, how is that impact communicated? what moves, changes, shifts, resizes, and what expressions change? what is telling you the story?
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