6 Principles of Animation. Part 2

Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra
Published in
3 min readMay 24, 2020

6 Principles of Animation. Part 2 🔮

Courtesy of @al_leleka

Here is the second part of the principles of animation:

🟪 Staging

🟪 Follow-Through and Overlapping Action

🟪 Straight to Head and Pose-to-Pose Action

🟪 Exaggeration

🟪Secondary Action

🟪 Appeal

Staging

Make a scene clear for your audience: where is the main character or where is the background

Follow-Through and Overlapping Action

A loose part of a body continues moving after a character’s stop. And it continues moving according to a trajectory

Straight Ahead and Pose-to-Pose Action

1) Straight Ahead means that you draw scene frame by frame.

2) Pose-to -Pose means that at first, you draw main poses and only after that draw a transition

Exaggeration

Make an action look more extreme. Its an amazing tool in animation and has some privilege over movie

Secondary Action

Create an interconnection between objects in the scene. Main object influences on secondary object

Appeal

Give a character a personality It makes him be real

Bonus — tools that may be useful:

Crello — the simplest online image editor. A simple but powerful tool to create awesome designs for any social media format — posts, covers, graphics, and posters using the best software on the web. It’s easy! A lot of animated designs.

Webflow — all-in-one web design tool that allows users to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually.

Brand24 — is an award-winning app that helps you track & engage people talking about your company.

Caylent — provides custom DevOps solutions for companies at every stage, allowing your team to focus on revenue-generating features instead of infrastructure.

The Futur — is an online education platform loaded with content, courses, and tools to help you build better design skills and better creative businesses.

Namecheap — is a well-known domain registry and budget web hosting services.

BitMex — is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange offering contracts with credit support.

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Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra

Increasing revenue for DTC brands via Facebook / Google ads 🚀Growth Strategist 🤘 Founder @hellotegra growth team 🤖 $5M+ profitable ad spend in 2020