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6. Reflect on the 12 principles of animation

When creating an animation there are twelve vital principles to create something which looks professional. Each was extremely important and something I had considered carefully when creating my animation. Such as the squash and stretch principal, my character was a human being and I needed to make him look organic, so when my character did things such as move I had to keep the squash and stretch in mind so I could make it seem like my character had some weight behind it. This was extremely important along with the other principal I had to think about which anticipation was. I had to make it seem obvious that my character was about to do certain moves in each frame so I had to make sure my joints and timing was equally balanced. This also fit in with the timing principal. I had to also think heavily about the staging for my character to be in a position that I would both be apparent to the audience and display its surrounding, to further shows its purpose. The remaining principals which are exaggeration, slow in and out, arcs, secondary action, solid drawing, appeal, follow through and straight ahead action pose, were still involved in my animation but to a lesser extent.

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Uploaded on December 14, 2012
Taken on December 14, 2012