Grade 10 - Principles of Animation

Objects appear to squash and become distorted or flattened by weight or gravity and elongate or stretch when affected by momentum

• Anticipation

• Follow Through & Overlapping Action

• Squash and Stretch

• Arcs

This is an action in the opposite direction that provides the momentum for the main action.

• Anticipation

• Follow Through & Overlapping Action

• Squash and Stretch

• Straight Ahead & Pose To Pose

This method of animation starts at the first drawing and works drawing to drawing to the end of the scene. Drawing in order (frames 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, etc)

• Straight Ahead

• Animation Method

• Timing

• Pose to Pose

This method of animation is more planned out and charted with key drawings done at intervals and then going back to fill in the missing pieces.

• Straight Ahead

• Animation Method

• Timing

• Pose to Pose

When the main body of the character stops and all other parts continue to catch up to the mass of the character. Or when parts of the body drag behind a character.

• Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose

• Follow Through & Overlapping Action

• Anticipation

• Exaggeration

Objects don't have a consistent velocity; velocity varies at the extremes of an objects motion, such as the start and stop positions.

• Slow In and Slow Out

• Follow Through & Overlapping Action

• Squash & Stretch

• Exaggeration

All actions, with few exceptions (such as mechnical devices), follow this path.

• Slow In and Slow Out

• Follow Through & Overlapping Action

• Squash & Stretch

• Arcs

Smallers actions that take place while the main action occurs.

• Secondary Actions

• Follow Through & Overlapping Action

• Squash & Stretch

• Arcs

The speed of the action or when the action happens.

• Secondary Actions

• Timing

• Exaggeration

• Arcs

When you make a drawing extreme in nature.

• Secondary Actions

• Timing

• Exaggeration

• Arcs