Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose are two essential methods in the 12 Principles of Animation, each providing unique benefits. People often believe Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose are the same thing, but they really are not. …

Obviously, from the title we can know that this aspect of animation is all about setting the scene.This principle is able to let the viewer get a deeper understanding of the characters and plot. Staging connects the scene’s emotion, acting,…

Squash and stretch is a key animation principle that allows dramatization and deformation of an object to create the feeling of flexibility, mass and life in animation. This specific aspect of animation can let an object grow wider, or shrink…

Exaggeration is in short taking something to the extreme. In animation, exaggeration is taking some of the information we have found out earlier further then “realistically” possible, stretching and distorting to add appeal. Let’s take the example of a woman…

To fully understand, follow through and overlapping action, we need to look at real life. Different objects and materials have different densities and react in different ways to the environment around them. Take a rubber ball and water balloon as…