Principles of Animation

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What is squash and stretch?

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When an object changes its shape due to movement.

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What is anticipation?

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When one action prepares us for a following action

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What is animating straight ahead?

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Drawing each drawing sequentially from start to finish

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What is pose to pose animation?

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Drawing the key poses and filling in the other pictures later

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What is follow through?

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Drawing the drawing using squash and stretch using a rebound

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What is overlapping action?

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Having one action begin or happen while another is taking place

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What is slow in slow out?

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Putting lots of drawings with small movements at the beginning and the end of an action.

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What are arcs?

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Objects move in a circular pattern or an arc

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What is secondary action?

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It is everything else besides the primary action the character is doing.

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Timing is important because

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The timing of an action affect the animation very much