From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Materials and drag

Materials and drag

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Materials and drag

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- It's easy to forget and it's very important to remember what exactly are you animating? Because its appearance will be determined by its properties. Is it iron, like this ball on the left? Porcelain, like the one in the middle? Or is it a rubber ball, soft and squishy like the one on the right? And the amount of squash or in stretch for example. Notice how the cannonball or the iron ball is barely stretching at all before the impact, whereas this football, this rubber ball, whatever bouncy object this is its stretching and it'll actually squash after this impact point and then it'll stretch again after it bounces off the ground. So these are really important to remember and to have some idea as to what the various objects are. Also don't forget that the environment can have an effect on the object as well. So if it's raining for example, if you're drawing a character in rain their costume is going to change, their hair is going to change based on if they're during the day and it's…

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