Animation Principles: Stretch and Squash

Last week we learned some basic animation principles, first out; stretch and squash. This is a very typical feature for cartoon, the exaggerated stretch and squash of a football that's hitting the ground, or any kind of object flying fast through the air, and so on. To make a good stretch and squash effect, it is very important to understand the timing and the weight of the object, and the understanding of the effect gravity has. To demonstrate this, we made a short movie if a football that bounce across the screen, and then a bowling ball. Here are my results.

Life Drawing

A couple a weeks ago we had a life drawing lecture. This was my first time doing life drawing, and it was surprisingly amusing. The model did first a set of 1 minute poses, which was a great challenge. It was quite hard to get the posture and the compositions right in such a sort time. 
After that, the model did a couple of poses for 5 minutes, so we had time to be more accurate.
Life drawing is a great exercise to learn how weight and composition is a really important part of drawing to make art seem real. For animation it is very important to learn how the weight contribute movement in a picture.
The time flew by, and I was pleased with the results, and are really looking forward to our next life drawing lecture.

1 mintue poses

5 minute poses

Welcome

Hi!
I'm a 1st year Animation and Visual Effects student at Falmouth University, that have moved all the way from Norway to Cornwall. I'm eager to start learning about world of animation.