saturday morning redux

I really enjoyed our readings this week on animation. I felt like I'd known the 12 points of animation all my life, but just never had terms to put to the actions. I'd animated basketballs before, w/ sounds and shadows. It was a lot of fun setting the timing, trying to replicate gravity and "counting" -- the author used 2s, but I was breaking my bouncing ball loops into 5 frames up, 2 frames down. I'd make the shadow a circle w/ a Gaussian (dissipating) blur, and change the size of opacity, depending on how far from the ground the ball was.

The best part of the lesson was anticipation, one of those things we kind of know we want, but don't know how to do. The example was terrific; I thought I was watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon w/ a big bowl of Sugar Smacks in my jammies on a Saturday morning.

Lastly, I'm sorry the author never completed his explanation of the 12 principles. I'd like to hear more about Anticipation, Exaggeration, Secondary Action, Follow through & Overlapping Action, Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose, Staging, and Appeal.

Timing
Squash and Stretch
Slow in & Slow Out
Arcs of Motion
Anticipation
Exaggeration
Secondary Action
Follow through & Overlapping Action
Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
Staging
Appeal
Solid Drawing