Omelette-Squash & Stretch
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"Omelette" is made by Madeline Sharafian, who is a third year student in Calarts and she wants to show how meaningful it is to make food for someone you love. The story is about the dog which makes the food for the exhausted man comes home after work.
Squash & Stretch is used to depict exaggerated animated motion. It makes the motion larger than life, rather than more swift, realistic, and sometimes unnoticed in passing observation. It's a sense of weight and flexibility and indicates the rigidity of the material.
It's by far the most important and one of the 12 principles in traditional animation.To explain this principles, you can see the image below, the left side shows a ball bouncing with a rigid, non-dynamic movement. However the right side is "squashed" at impact, and "stretched" during full and rebounce.
When a person smiles, the shape of the face is determined by the movement of muscles underneath a layer of skin. During a smile, with the widening of the mouth and jaw, it does not. The object is simply displacing its matter into the stretch shape. The most important rule to squash and stretch is that no matter hoe squash or stretch out an object gets, it's volume remains constant!
I chose three parts of the animation to show how great is it to use the squash and stretch. When the dog falls, his body stretch because of the gravity. When it reaches the floor, his body absorbs the impact and force not only transfering but also disturbing it out of the shape.
Squash and Stretch often cooperates with Exaggeration. These two principles play a great role in character animation.
To sum up, I want to apply the Squash and Stretch in my animation in the future. Depending on the plots of my project, I may change the level of the Squash and Stretch. But I do want to observe more and play with this principles.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_and_stretch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation
http://www.evl.uic.edu/ralph/508S99/squash.html
http://animation.about.com/od/faqs/f/Why-Is-Squash-And-Stretch-Important-To-Animation.htm
http://animation.about.com/od/glossaryofterms/g/squashstr_def.htm
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