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Squash and Stretch
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Purpose is to give a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn objects.
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Anticipation
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Used to prepare the audience for an action, and to make the action appear more realistic.
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Staging
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Purpose is to direct the audience's attention, and make it clear what is of greatest importance in a scene; what is happening, and what is about to happen. This can be done the placement of a character in the frame, the use of light and shadow, and the angle and position of the camera.
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Straight-Ahead Action & Pose-to-Pose
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Means to draw out a scene frame by frame from beginning to end, while "pose to pose" involves starting with drawing a few, key frames, and then filling in the intervals later.
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Follow Through and Overlapping Action
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Helps render movement more realistic, and give the impression that characters follow the laws of physics. (First Part) means that separate parts of a body will continue moving after the character has stopped. (Second Part) is the tendency for parts of the body to move at different rates.
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Slow In & Slow Out
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The movement of the human body, and most other objects, needs time to accelerate and slow down.
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Arcs
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Most human and animal actions occur along an arched trajectory
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Secondary Action
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Adding (term) to the main action gives a scene more life, and can help to support the main action.
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Timing
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Refers to the number of drawings or frames for a given action, which translates to the speed of the action on film.
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Exaggeration
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The classical definition of (Term), employed by Disney, was to remain true to reality, just presenting it in a wilder, more extreme form.
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Solid Drawing
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Means taking into account forms in three-dimensional space, giving them volume and weight.
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Appeal
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(Term) in a cartoon character corresponds to what would be called charisma in an actor - The viewer feels the character is real and interesting.
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