12 Principles of Animation

The 12 principles of animation were first introduced by Disney animators

• Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas

• Ollie Johnson and Frank Tomas

• Frank Johnston and Ollie Thomas

• Ollie John and Frank Sinatra

The 12 principles of animation were first introduced by Disney animators in the book,

• The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

• The Illusion of Animation: Disney Life

• The Animation of Life: Disney Life

• The Illusion of Disney: Life Animation

The book where the 12 principles of animation were first introduced by Disney animators was released in

• 1981

• 1982

• 1983

• 1984

This principle is considered the most important of the 12 principles of animation. When applied, it gives your animated characters and objects the illusion of gravity, weight, mass and flexibility

• Squash and stretch

• Straight ahead action and pose to pose

• Staging

• Anticipation

This principle helps to prepare the viewer for what's about to happen. When applied, it has the effect of making the object's action more realistic.

• Anticipation

• Staging

• Slow in and slow out

• Arc

Its purpose is to direct the audience's attention, and make it clear what is of greatest importance in a scene

• Staging

• Follow through and overlapping action

• Slow in and slow out

• Squash and stretch

Drawing technique where scenes are animated frame by frame from beginning to end

• Straight ahead action

• pose to pose

Drawing technique where it involves starting with drawing a few key frames, and then filling in the intervals later

• Straight ahead action

• pose to pose

is a general heading for two closely related techniques which help to render movement more realistically, and help to give the impression that characters follow the laws of physics, including the principle of inertia.

• Follow through and overlapping action

• Follow action and overlapping through

• Follow through

• overlapping action

It means that loosely tied parts of a body should continue moving after the character has stopped and the parts should keep moving beyond the point where the character stopped only to be subsequently "pulled back" towards the center of mass or exhibiting various degrees of oscillation damping

• "Follow through"

• "Overlapping action"

• drag