Reviewing the 12 Principles of Animation

For more information and detail about what each of those principles actually means, check out this article about the 'old men of Disney' and the 12 principles of animation. They actually developed these principles and they still check out today and the basis for all animation.

Pose to Pose - understanding key poses. Click here to get a better understanding of creating key poses that essentially create your animation.

Inbetweens and motion arcs. Here you can learn about how to make things appear smooth - timing and motion arcs are particularly important.

Please view the video and read through the article so that you have an understanding of some of the main principles of animation. You will need to be able to identify them in the kinetic typography you analyze, but you should also be implementing some of them in your kinetic typography.

RESEARCH:
1. Review or learn about the 12 principles of animation. Read the article linked above and watch the video above.

2. Watch and search for great examples of kinetic typography.

Here's "The Child". Amazing what you can do with a bunch of words.


3. Post one amazing kinetic typography video on your blog. Write a brief analysis of the video.
Include the following:

• 3-4 examples of principles of animation (you need to identify the specific timecode when you observed the principle of animation and explain why you think it's a good example of it)
• Your observations (like we did in class) of pace, timing, choice of font, colours used and any particular techniques or movements used that were especially effective in expressing the mood and sound of the piece of music/spoken word and also how the words sound when they're spoken/sung.