Week 10 Lab 1: Animation Visualisation

Exercise 1 & 2
The 12 principles of animation:

1. Squash and stretch
    
   The ball has weight and volume and when animated, it will have squash and stretch.
   
   
2. Anticipation
   Before the person is running, there is a preparation movement. That movement is anticipation.
   
   
3. Staging
4. Straight ahead action and pose to pose
5. Follow through and overlapping action
    
   When the person jumps up to the maximum height, his body has stopped moving. However, his hair continues to move upwards. This is follow through.
   When the person jumps up, his bag follows him behind. But when the person is coming down, his bag is still moving upwards for a while before it comes down. This is overlapping action.
   
6. Slow in and slow out
7. Arcs
    
   The swinging of the arm when doing an under-hand pass of the ball to the person opposite creates an arc.
   The swinging of the arm when tossing the ball into the air creates an arc.
   
8. Secondary action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid drawing
12. Appeal

Exercise 3
This is the link to the video that demonstrates at least 6 of the 12 principles of animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lb_0laf77c&feature=related
1. Squash & stretch - The roll of tissue paper is bouncing down the hill. 
2. Staging - There is a scene where the driver is taking out a roll of tissue paper. This shows that he is having a stomachache.
3. Straight ahead action & pose to pose - The crying scene of the driver. 
4. Secondary action - While chasing the roll of tissue paper, he is running and swinging his arms back and forth.
5. Exaggeration - The moment when the driver is about to fall down the hill and the landing he makes on the other side of the hill. 
6. Appeal -  The expressions of the driver.

 
Reflection
During this lesson, I learned about the 12 principles of animation. I was also surprised that simple activities such as tossing a ball, jumping and running are all related to animation and even more surprised to know that the best animation reference is myself. After the lesson, I realized that animation occurs around us all the time and has become so natural that we hardly notice it.