Twelve Principles of Animation and More!

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Across
  1. 2. To make something appear to move by creating a series of drawings, pictures, etc., and showing them a rapid succession.
  2. 5. Amount of frames between poses.
  3. 7. To get maximum feeling from the audience, animated characters must be drawn or modeled precisely.
  4. 8. A filming technique in which objects are photographed in a series of slightly different positions.
  5. 9. Used to increase the readability of emotions and actions.
  6. 10. An animation process using clay or plasticine figures that are moved and fined using stop-motion photography.
  7. 11. Living flesh distorts during motion. Exaggerated deformations will emphasize motion and impact.
  8. 12. The clear presentation of an idea.
  9. 14. Drawing the frames in sequence versus creating strong posed (keyframes) first and adding the in-between frames later.
  10. 16. A visual plan for all the scenes and shots in an animation project.
Down
  1. 1. The action that follows the main action; actions do not stop at the same time.
  2. 3. Animation can occur before an action.
  3. 4. Minor actions that occur due to a major action.
  4. 6. Also known as ease in and ease out.
  5. 13. Animated characters need to have a unique personality and have a wide range of emotions.
  6. 15. The basis for almost all natural motion; created using a spline curve.