Shot 28

As I was Animating this shot when the Alarms catch out the characters, I needed a little bit of help on how to really approach catching them out.

Firstly a friend of mine helped me shoot some reference footage to really capture the accuracy in anatomy when approaching it, really replicating how real bones and muscles would coincide with one another during such an erratic piece of performance from a Monkey. But seeing as we couldn't get a monkey, a human was close enough.

After consulting a tutor on how to take it further, it was suggested to me, to make the animation Pop in 1 frame - The Arms up, curl up the anticipation just a ‘wee’ bit more, then when the arms reach the top, let them stretch up further, really throwing the arms up really far, then let the monkey come back down into a more comfortable position. 

 - If 1 frame is the difference between curl & pop, then anticipate it more, and have the drag and the overlap more apparent between the arms and the body, so have the arms flap up after the body, so that the power comes from the hips.