Study Task 9 - Anticipation

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.