Timing & Principles

Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Also called Follow Through, Overlapping Action, Drag, Lag

Loosely attached parts keep moving or trail behind after the main body stops or starts, so parts do not all move and stop together.

Hair, tails, trailing parts of a mover

Prompt

Replace [scene] with the shot and [duration] with how long it should take, then paste the prompt into your AI agent. Each prompt includes the name of the technique, so next time you can simply ask for it by name.

This is for a motion graphics video. Animate [scene] with "Follow Through and Overlapping Action" (also called drag or lag): the loosely attached parts trail behind when the main body sets off, and keep going, swing past and settle after it has stopped.
The parts must not all move and stop together. They are passive — pulled along by the body — unlike a secondary action, which is a small separate gesture playing alongside the main one.
Fit the move and the settling into [duration], and let longer or lighter parts lag further and take longer to come to rest.

Replace [scene] with the shot and [duration] with how long it should take, then paste the prompt into your AI agent. Each prompt includes the name of the technique, so next time you can simply ask for it by name.