Action Scavenger Hunt Blog Post


Actions are a set series of animated movements depicting a specific activity, which can often be looped.

Actions are used in animations when a character does something a repeated number of times. A good example is walking: instead of animating each and every step again and again, an animator can loop the walking action as many times as they need to.


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