Principles of Animation

What is squash and stretch

• When an object changes it shape due to movement

• When one action prepares us for the next one

• When you zoom in for expressions and out for big actions

• When you start with keys and fill in the in-between drawings

What is anticipation?

• When an object changes shape due to movement

• When one action prepares us for a following action

• When you zoom in for expressions and out for big actions

• When you draw the key poses and fill in the in-between pictures later.

What is staging?

• Setting up the scene so that it is clear and understandable

• Drawing of the drawings in any order you want

• Zooming in for expressions and out for big actions

• Both a and c

What is animating straight ahead?

• Drawing the keys and later on going in and filling in the other drawings

• Drawing the keys and secondary actions and overlapping actions

• Drawing each drawing sequentially from start to finish

• Drawing the last drawing first and working backwards

What is pose to pose animation?

• Drawing the key poses and filling in the other pictures later

• Drawing the key poses, the secondary actions and the overlapping actions

• Drawing the pictures sequentially from start to finish

• Drawingi the last picture first and working backwards

What is follow through?

• Drawing the drawing using squash and stretch with no rebound

• Drawing the drawing using squash and stretch using a rebound

• Drawing the drawing using no squash and stretch or rebound

• Drawing one drawing and that is an animation

What is overlapping action?

• Making sure that only one action happens at a time

• Making sure that you zoom in on expressions and out on big actions

• Having one action begin or happen while another is taking place

• Having lots of different actions so that you can distract the viewer

What is slow in slow out

• Making sure that every picture is evenly spaced on the time line

• Making sure that you have the action take place with as few drawings as possible

• Making sure to draw so that the action is really choppy

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

What are arcs?

• Objects move in a circular pattern or an arc

• Objects move in a straight line

• Objects move up and down in a line

• Objects move from side to side in a line

What is secondary action?

• It is the second action the character does in a sequence of actions

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

• It is a high school action

• I don' t have a clue