Year2 Assignment1: Chosen principles

quick note: i'm currently undecided as to wether to work on each project simultaneously, so that they can inspire each other, or do them individually, where i can learn from the mistakes i make.

i have chosen the principles which will be the main focus of each of my animations. each animation will ofcourse display a large amount of the principles but i think that in choosing one to focus on will allow me to focus on what i'm doing and not get distracted by stylistic elements too much.

• Timing
• Squash and stretch
• Motivation/Anticipation

i have chosen these because i think that they are the most visually obvious and i will be able to convincingly apply things to these principles. below are the ideas i came up with earler in the project for animation that i could do to each of these principles

Timing

• heavy objects chasing lighter objects
• merging objects of different densities
• giving weight to textured objects
• subvert the weight and make things that should be light heavy to give a surreal feeling

Squash & Stretch

• i could center an animation around this principle very easily by exaggerating the squash and squeezes
• object bursting under pressure
• 5 ball pendulum

Motivation/Anticipation

• breaking objects
• collisions
• explosions
• an incoming disaster which influences the objects on screen (TNT plunger being pressed)

i'm trying to visualize how these ideas can fit within the time limit which i have and whether they will need padding out with additional stuff. to help me visualize i'm using this 20second click of a black screen on youtube (found here) and imagining different things happening.