The first Disney principle of animation is the one that's often cited as the most important as it also influences some of the other 12 rules of animation. Squash and stretch can give animated ...

Disney's 12 principles of animation in action. The Disney animation principles can bring even the most basic of objects to ...

How do animators breathe life onto a blank canvas? How do they get us to laugh at Pascal, sympathize with Carl, and feel the longing of Ariel wanting to be part of your world? How do they make us ...

Disney’s 12 principles of animation might be some of the most influential tenets in the history of design. Here, Connective3’s Lucy Selley boils them down to 4 lessons for modern designers. Are Disney ...

And now for a delightful reminder about the pure, unadulterated magic of moving line drawings. This little bouncer above is demonstrating the ol’ “Squash & Stretch,” one of the 12 basic principles of ...

To paraphrase Patrick Henry, Give me squash and stretch or give me death. As an outsider to the CG animation production process, I’m struck by how inefficient industry-standard software seems to be in ...

Disney’s 12 principles of animation are as relevant for today’s interface designers as they were for yesterday’s dancing-broom illustrators. We’re not animating dancing brooms in feature films here.

The Disney 12 principles of animation are often considered as a basis for all animation, not just movies and cartoons. These rules of animation may have been drawn up decades ago, but they remain just ...

How do animators breathe life onto a blank canvas? How do they get us to laugh at Pascal, sympathize with Carl, and feel the longing of Ariel wanting to be part of your world? How do they make us ...

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the “old men” of Walt Disney, made laws of physics just for cartoons. In the real world, the basic laws of physics were first described by Sir Isaac Newton and Albert ...