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    This document outlines the 12 principles of 3D computer graphics animation as established by Disney in the 1930s-1940s. The principles are meant to help animators direct realistic performances by representing real world physics through techniques like squash and stretch, anticipation, follow through, overlapping action, slow in/out, exaggeration, arcs, secondary action, and timing. The document also briefly discusses techniques like solid modeling, character personality, visual styling, blend motion, cinematography, facial animation, user-controlled animation, and provides examples from films.

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    12 Principles of 3D CG

    Animation
    Amy Gooch
    CS395: Intro to Animation
    Summer 2004
    12 Principles of Animation
    • Created by Disney Studios in 1930s
    – Snow White (1937)
    – Pinocchio & Fantastia (1940)
    – Dumbo (1941)
    – Bambi (1942)

    Really about…
    • Performance
    – Directing Performance
    – Representing reality
    – Interpreting real world physics
    – Editing sequence of actions
    Squash and stretch

    Squash and stretch


    Anticipation

    Staging
    Two Animation Techniques for
    Action
    • Pose-to-Pose

    • Straight-ahead

    (Also: Ryan by Chris Landreth)

    Action, pt 2
    Follow-thru Action

    Overlapping Action
    Movement:
    Slow-in and Slow-out
    • The ball on the left moves
    at a constant speed with
    no squash/stretch.

    The ball in the center


    does slow in and out with
    a squash/stretch.

    The ball on the right


    moves at a constant speed
    with squash/stretch.

    Movement: Arcs
    Secondary Action

    Timing
    Exaggeration

    Solid modeling and rigging


    • (solid drawing in 1930s)
    Character Personality

    A few more…
    Visual Styling

    Blend Motion
    • Cartoon physics
    • Realiistic cartoon
    • Realisitic human
    • Rotoscoping
    Cinematography
    • Lighting
    • Composition
    • Squencing

    Facial animation
    • More subtle controls in CG
    • Decide early on level of control
    User-controlled animation
    • Games allow user intervention
    • Built-in anticipation
    • Branch smoothly between action shots
    Animation Examples
    • Siggraph 2004 DVD

    Credits
    • http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/character_animati
    on/principles/prin_trad_anim.htm
    • Kerlow’s Book
    • Jessica Hodgin’s Notes

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