The 12 Principles Of Animation

For this project the brief asked us to research into the principles of animation as I did not know what these were I thought researching these first would be a good way to start the project. After some initial research I found that there are 12 basic principles of animation that cover all the different aspects of animating.

The principles are -

1. Squash and Stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead and Pose-to-pose
5. Follow through and overlapping action
6. Slow in and slow out
7. Arcs
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid Drawing 
12. Appeal