Arm Maya Tutorial - Anticipation and Follow Through

Flour Sack Animation

This task was to create a flour sack animation displaying some of the principles of animation:

1. Weight (leap/jump and land, falling off wrecking ball)
2. Arcs (wave)
3. Anticipation (wrecking ball and falling of flour sack nticipated to hit)
4. Emotion (fear at giant slide falling out of nowhere)
5. Appeal
6. Follow through and secondary animation
7. Staging (Wrecking ball and slide)
8. Slow in and slow out (wrecking ball)
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration (fear at giant slide falling out of nowhere)
11. Solid Drawing (Wave and leap/jump)
12. Squash and stretch (landing on ground and the jump/leap).

12 Principles of Animation: Anticipation

Anticipation is where you prepare/build up for a main action, for example a pitcher, he holds the ball before pelting it.