DCD1163 - CHAPTER 2 : PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION

Which statement is true about squash and stretch?

• applied to give a sense of weight and/or flexibility to objects or even to people

•  it gives your animated characters and objects the illusion of non-flexibility.

• the object's volume can be inconsistent

•  it gives your animated characters and objects the illusion of gravity, weight, mass and flexibility.

What is anticipation?

• the setup for an action to happen

• an action to give the audience a clue as to what happening next

• action that affect the ending of the story

• secondary action

How a car starts up and stops. It will start moving slowly, before gaining momentum and speeding up. Write down the principle of animation applied to make it realistic.

It helps to direct the audience’s attention toward the most important elements in a scene. What is the principle?

• Staging

• Arcs

• Anticipation

• Secondary Action

This image represent the principle of _____.

• Pose to pose

• Straight ahead

• Staging

• Anticipation

Animators start by drawing key frames and they fill in the intervals later. What is the principle of animation applied?

This principle involve animating each frame from beginning to end. What it is called?

Which statement is true about the follow through?

• If your character is running across the scene, their arms and legs may be moving at a different rate from their head.

• When they stop running, their hair will likely continue to move for a few frames before coming to rest.

• Directs the audience’s attention toward the most important elements in a scene.

• The scenes involve animating each frame from beginning to end. 

The laws of physics. Most living beings including humans move in circular paths called _____.

A character has a sad expression and wiping a tear. Which principle of animation applied in this situation?

• Secondary action

• Squash and stretch

• Anticipation

• Slow in slow out