Animation Principles

Basic Principles of Animation

Character Animation: Principles and Practice

1. Timing and Motion

2. Ease In and Out (or Slow In and Out)

3. Arcs

4. Anticipation

5. Exaggeration

6. Squash and Stretch

7. Secondary Action

8. Follow Through and Overlapping Action

9. Straight Ahead Action and Pose-To-Pose Action

10. Staging

Others: Appeal, Personality, Weight, Non-Symmetrical Posing

Principles in Action

Bouncing Ball exercise

Further Reading:

Animation Comedy and Gag Writing

Homework:

Create a flipbook animation of one of the following:

A character riding a pogostick or using a hula hoop
A character blows a bubble, then it pops
A character bends down, picks up something heavy, and throws it
A snake eating something and digesting it
2 characters sawing a log. One is big and strong, one is small and weak and gets pulled along