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his hatgets a little squashed which I like, although we’re going to revisit how

the hat behaves shortly.

FIGURE 8.18 Squash.

Now that our little blobby dude is ready, let’s have him spring upward

stretching his body in the other direction like in Figure.. This time our

blob is roughly twice the height and half the width as the starting point

for the character—this is the “stretch.” Since the motion is going upward,

I’veaddedachangetothebrimtoemphasizetheforceoftheupward

motion.

FIGURE 8.19 Stretch.

What we have looks pretty nice, but let’s see how far we can push this

concept. Let’s really exaggerate the squash and stretch by adding ...