From the course: 21 Foundations of Animation
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Squashing and stretching
- [Instructor] Squash and stretch is easy to understand but there are different degrees to which we can apply it. Here's a bouncing ball with no squash or stretch. Now we've added a single squash frame on the impact. And this time, I've added a stretch on the frames before and after the impact. And now I'm expanding the number of frames that are stretching as the ball falls. And finally, all of the frames after the initial one are now squashing and stretching. As we begin to add more squash and stretch, the impact is gaining volume. The cardinal mistake of squash and stretch is doing it so much that you gain or lose volume. Here are all the variants side by side. Versions one through five are simply different degrees from no squash or stretch, to a lot of it. The extent to which you can apply this principle to your scene, can depend on the style of your project, whether you're realistic or cartoony, as well as the object that…
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