SECONDARY ACTION

Secondary action improves and enriches the main action and increases more dimensions to the person’s animation, adding or re-enforcing the main act. Example: A person is furious walking toward another person. The walk is powerful, aggressive, and forward leaning. The leg act is just small for a stomping walk. The secondary action is a few tough gestures of the arms working with the walk. The option of chats being produced at the same time with tilts and turns of the head to emphasize the walk and dialogue, but not so much as to confuse from the walk action. All of these acts must work jointly to support another. Think of the walk as the basic action and arm swings, head bounce and several actions of the body as secondary or supporting action.