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- [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.