The principle of anticipation is applied to a character or object and acts as a precursor or forethought to the action that is about to occur. I ultimately chose to animate a man hitting a hammer on a test-your-strength machine, which was simpler to animate than what my original intentions were.
Hammered
What worked well:
The slight pause in the motion when the hammer was pulled all the way back
The arcs in the hammer movement
The motion blur in some of the frames
The mild squash and stretch in the weight along its course.
What could be improved:
Colour and extra detail could be added
The original animation involved rotoscoping a cat and was ultimately scrapped due to time consumption.
The principle of squash and stretch is used to enhance an object or character's movements by changing shape (without changing its volume) and this task required us to demonstrate this through the animation of a bouncing ball, both up and down and with lateral movement.
Animation 1: ball dropping straight down
Animation 2: ball dropping with lateral motion
What worked well:
The ball exhibiting less squash and stretch as it loses energy over time in the first animation
The use of sound in both animations.
What could be improved:
The speed/timing of the ball bouncing in the second animation was a bit off in some places and for the most part required correcting by adding and removing frames in certain places
One bounce in the second animation needed a sound effect to make the movement more logical.
