February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 7m
English
There is a train of cause and effect which runs through an object when it is acted upon by a force. This is the result of the transmission of the force through a more or less flexible medium (i.e., caricatured matter). This is one aspect of good movement in animation.
An animator must understand the mechanics of the natural movement of an object and then keep this knowledge in the back of his mind whilst he concentrates on the real business of animation. This is the creation of mood and conveying the right feeling by the way an action is done.
Examples of cause and effect (Fig. 15):

FIG 15A A rope wrapped round something. ...
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