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[Eendhoorn]

Whenever I need to animate hair I just do whatever, it's about time I learn the proper logics behind them :p



My current logic between the hair movement is when the character moves up the hair gets kind of pulled down, and when the character moves down the hair "floats". In my head this makes perfect sense, yet the hair looks super unnatural in the above gif.

Anyone has any tips or references?
Thanks!

[midoredomi]

It looks unnatural because it's too slow compared to the actual walking/running motions.

[Eendhoorn]

It looks unnatural because it's too slow compared to the actual walking/running motions.

Whenever I try to speed it up it always ends up like weird dancing hair :/


In my head it all makes sense, hair moves outwards/up when going down, and goes down/inwards when moving up. But I'm obviously missing something here

[Eggy]

If you have not done the following already, maybe try reducing the maximum displacement amount (i.e. only have it move slightly and not so much within two frames in your newer GIF). Basically, from what I understand about inertia, the reason it looks like it's dancing is because it makes too much movement in just a few frames and compared to how the character moves (they move up and down a little but the hair whips about), so in essence it's defying the laws of physics. Now I can't guarantee it'll work and I sadly can't try it myself at the moment (not to mention I might have a bit of a slip up since I'm not the greatest with physics), but I think that may be worth a try

[caffeine]

Think of the hair as a 3d-object. And limit the movement to swiping left and right with a slight bounce.

[Jad]

Kaboom has got it right, at a 4 frame cycle you have a rise and fall every 2 frames so there's is no opportunity to utilize secondary motion and follow through. There's enough frames for a good side swing, as you can see