12 Principles of Animation

These are the timings in the video where I think one of the 12 principles of animation is utilized. Solid drawing and appeal is really a no brainier here 😡 no pun intended but yeah. 3D is soilid! And isn’t Po and the furious five appealing! XD

0.14- Staging
//The pots are placed there for Po to use to hide himself when he is in stealth mode. He fails completely though.. anyways, Staging is seen here.

0.18- Arcs
// His body bounces in an arc after he falls down. Maybe follow through and overlapping action is seen here as well where his body completes the fall and not just stops halfway with the result in Po rolling over. The overlapping action are his legs opening as he falls over.

0.24- Secondary Action
// Its pretty obvious here. His tummy! hahaha! it wobbles as his head hits the pot.

0.25- Staging, Anticipation and Timing.
// The set the noodles away from Po and its sitting on the stall that we all saw earlier on. Po is placed at an angle that fits our mental image when we see him move towards the stall from the previous scene.

//Anticipation happens when he goes gaga over the noodles for a short time. We anticipate that he will try to eat the noodles. The process of him trying to eat could also be considered anticipation because the audience would want to see if their hero gets to have a snack.

//Timing. I’m not really sure about this one. But.. the timing of the whole scene where Po is taking a bite is perfectly timed to give a sense of Po ignoring the danger around him to have a meal and it may have consequences.


0.33- Secondary Action
//While the goat was held up by the wolf her tail was also moving.

0.47-Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
//I’m gonna just say that I’m not sure if the guys at Dreamworks did this. But! It seems logical to do it. Hahaha! SO!

//Key pose> 0.47 Eating the wolf
//Various key poses> 0.48-0.53 “Digestion”
//Key Pose> 0.54 “Shit”

0.48- 0.53- A lot of stretch and squash here!
//the dragon stretches and squashes as the wolf is passed through its digestive system. The movement is also greatly exaggerated to have a comical effect and the illusion of it being a real dragon consuming the wolf and then finally discharging it from its behind.

I know.. I agree with the rabbit. Haha! Anndddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Meow!~ thats all folks!

Fin- Timothy

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