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- With our golden poses done,

it's time to add some breakdowns.

The goal of those additional poses is to have

a better grasp on the flow of the animation.

We will build the first step into the jab,

which is the anticipation of the jab.

Then the transition into the right cross

and the right cross overshoot

really help to communicate the power into dispatch.

Then we will add a couple of poses after the hook

to show the steps taken by the character

to get back into idle before performing the switch kick.

We'll create the transition jump

into the anticipation of the switch kick

that is already blocked.

After the kicking pose

we will add an overshoot of the leg

that will sell the power of the kick.

And finally, we will add a transition pose

before the two steps we have already blocked back into idle.

Before building those poses,

I've watched the reference and

I've spot the frame that were interesting to me.

Like this pose in between the idle and the first jab

character is lowering his center of gravity

and also pushing forward.

So it will be a great anticipation.

I've also noticed that the character is slightly dropping

his hands during this anticipation.

As a person pose for a walk cycle,

I'm trying to find a good break down

and the time where the character is pulling his left hand

and pushing with the right hand

seems to be pretty nice.

Also adding notes as a reminder,

that the torso is twisting a lot on this pose,

Then I will spot the overshoot.

If your reference doesn't show the next move,

just put note on top of this and make sure

that you look for new reference later on.

So this is something I've been doing for every poses

I wanted to add into the blocking stage.

As in the previous videos our goal

is not necessarily to copy 100% the exact same poses.

But to check the body mechanisms that are involved

and then push them to make our animation

more exaggerated and more appealing.

So let's work the step forward into the jab.

As usual, I will try to define the line of action.

The simple C shape the front foot is currently raising

while the back foot is pushing.

So as before I generally scrub around the current frame to

check out the motion of the different parts of the body,

the hands, the head, the feet,

so that I don't forget to put them.

And also I could choose whether I favorite the front foot

to move further away or to be closer,

to drop more the feet, to lean more the character forward,

make any choice to exaggerate the current pose.

Now in blender I will insert a key frame

for all the controllers of both the character

and the bag on the frame seven.

Again, at this stage, we don't care about timing.

We can do it on frame seven or eight doesn't matter.

Then I want to get rid of the rest pose

we have on frame zero.

So I will duplicate frame five on frame zero.

When working on an animation,

if it's not a gameplay animation,

I you advise you to keep five frames also in the beginning

in the still pose so that you can get prepared

to what is coming next.

If you start your animation from frame zero,

sometime it's a bit hard to read.

The difference between this new pose

and the previous one won't be that big.

First I want to lower the center of gravity

as our character is gathering energy to throw the punch.

Then I pushed the center of gravity forward.

As our character is already moving forward.

The left foot is raised a little bit and

slightly rotated towards the inside

because it's going to leave the ground on the next frame.

And so the center of gravity will shift a bit to the left.

The character is pushing toward his left foot

with his right foot.

So you have to move the cog a bit to the left.

Then I do a few adjustment with the arm,

making them dragging it.

So I raised the shoulder as the center of gravity

is getting lower.

I open the hand as the whole body's moving forward

as if there was wind blowing into the palm of the character

and I do the same with the neck and the head.

As it drop into the step I slightly raise his chin.

(swishing noise)

When we watch the reference for the next pose,

we can see that the character is currently pulling

the left arm and bring it close to his chin to protect it.

In the meantime, the right arm is traveling

towards the target.

The hips are twisting a lot.

The center of gravity too and the chest is twisting,

but dragging a little bit.

Finally, the right foot is rotating a lot.

So those are the main point we are going to address

into our breakdown pose.

As for the previous pose I will add a key frame

on all the controllers of the bag

and the character on frame 12.

Again, at this stage, we don't care about timing.

Since the location of the feet doesn't change

between the previous and the next pose

we can directly work on the center of gravity

of the character.

As the character is twisting to his left,

his center of gravity is also shifting to the left foot.

So we need to twist the center of gravity

but we also need to move it to the left.

Just imagine that the character is diving

into the next punch with his left shoulder.

As seen in the reference the right foot is rotating a lot.

So I rotate it even more and I will raise it with the heel.

Don't forget to adjust the position of the hips accordingly.

Now we can twist a bit the chest,

but don't forget that the hips are leading.

So the chest may not twist as much as the hips

for the time being.

Once the punch is thrown,

the chest will catch up with the hips.

And as the weight is getting on the front left foot,

I'm slightly tilting it to the left

and I'm slightly pushing it down.

This will mimic the compression of the foot on the ground.

For this breakdown I decided to not go

too into the orthodox boxing pose with

the left fist very close to the chin.

I've kept the left arm slightly more opened.

This way we have a nice circular flow between the two arms.

As I explained before,

remember to move the arms with the anatomical constraint,

rotating the elbow on neuron one axis,

and don't forget to pose the bag.

That's not the most important thing,

but it will help you read your animation.

To do so I reset all the controller of the bag,

and then I slightly rotated it backward

just after the little jab

as if the jab has pushed it a bit and the bag is swinging.