12 Principles of Animation 1-6
When applied, it gives your animated characters and objects the illusion of gravity, weight, mass, and flexibility.
What is Squash and Stretch?
This Principle will start moving slowly, before gaining momentum and speeding up. The reverse will happen when the car brakes. In animation, this effect is achieved by adding more frames at the beginning and end of an action sequence. Apply this principle to give your objects more life.
What is Slow in and Slow out?
This energetic sponge lives in a pineapple under the sea and works at the Krusty Krab.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian.
What is Family guy?
This angle looks down on the subject from above, making them seem small, weak, or vulnerable.
What is a high angle?
This prepares the viewer for what's about to happen. When applied, it has the effect of making the object's action more realistic by adding potential energy.
What is Anticipation?
Too much realism can ruin an animation, making it appear static and boring. Adding this principle to your characters and objects makes them more dynamic. Thus, finding ways to push the limits just beyond what's possible, and your animations will pop.
What is Exaggeration?
This adventurous boy wears a green hoodie and stars in a multiverse-hopping animated Spider-Man film.
Who is Miles Morales?
are four fictional teenaged superhero anthropomorphic reptiles. Named after Italian Renaissance artists
who is TMNT?
This dramatic angle is shot from below the subject, often making them appear powerful, heroic, or intimidating.
What is a low angle?
This principle is a lot like composition in artwork. What we mean by that is, you should use motion to guide the viewer's eye and draw attention to what's important within the scene. This keeps the focus on what's important within the scene, and keeps the motion of everything else of non-importance to a minimum.
What is Staging?
This Principle shows the basics of drawing. This includes knowing how to draw in three-dimensional space and understanding form and anatomy, weight and volume, and lights and shadows.
While you can push the limits here, too, it's important to remain consistent. If your world has wonky doors and a warped perspective, keep that perspective throughout the entire animation. Otherwise, things will fall apart.
What is Solid Drawing?
This sassy demon slayer wears a boar mask and charges into battle headfirst.
Who is Inosuke Hashibira from Demon Slayer?
is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear that LOVES honey.
Who is Winnie the Pooh?
This shot shows the subject from the chest or shoulders up and is often used during conversations.
What is a medium close-up?
These two approaches are often combined. One approach involves drawing frame-by-frame from start to finish. The other is helpful for effects animation and is often used in stop-motion animation.
What is Straight ahead and Pose to Pose?
Your characters, objects, and the world in which they live need to appeal to the viewer. This includes having an easy-to-read design, solid drawing, and a personality. There is no formula for getting this right, but it starts with strong character development and being able to tell your story through the art of animation.
What is Appeal?
A British preschool animated television series staring an anthropomorphic female pig, and her family and peers.
who is Peppa Pig?
She discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever.
Who is Coraline?
This wide-angle shot sets the scene and gives the audience a sense of location and scale.
What is an establishing shot?
This is used to support or emphasise the main action going on within a scene. Adding this helps add more dimension to your characters and objects.
What is Secondary Action?
When working in animation, it's best to stick with the laws of physics. Most objects follow a path when they're moving, and your animations should reflect that arc. For example, when you toss a ball into the air, it follows a natural curve as the effects of the Earth's gravity act upon it.
What are Arcs?
He makes a deal with Farquaad to regain control of his swamp in return for rescuing Princess Fiona, whom Farquaad intends to marry. With the help of his friend Donkey...
Who is Shrek?
it chronicles the life of a cat owned by Jon Arbuckle, his human owner and Odie, the dog. He also holds the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.
what is Garfield?
This is shown from directly above. This is a completely different and somewhat unnatural point of view, which can be used for dramatic effect or for showing a different spatial perspective.
What is a Bird's Eye?
If you move an object more quickly or slowly than it would naturally move in the real world, the effect won't be believable. Using this principle allows you to control the mood and the reaction of your characters and objects, and adds more believable momentum.
What is Timing?
When objects come to a standstill after being in motion, different parts of the object will stop at different rates. Similarly, not everything on an object will move at the same rate. This forms the essence of the fifth of Disney's principles of animation.
What is Follow through and Overlapping Action?
This yellow-haired ninja yells “Believe it!” and dreams of becoming Hokage.
Who is Naruto Uzumaki?
she has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow. She inadvertently sends Arendelle into an eternal winter.
who is Elsa (Frozen)?
This intense angle is tilted sideways to create tension, disorientation, or a sense of unease.
What is a Dutch angle (or tilt)?