In the continuing adventures in animation we looked at using anticipation of action for more realistic and (if exaggerated) cartoony movement in characters.
To experiment with this, we created very short (around one second) animations using anticipation of action. I decided to use good old Birb Blob doing a Road Runner style escape. I absolutely loved how it turned out, with the arced head movement and blink when it sees something off screen and the way form was kept even though it was a very simple character. However it was pointed out that there could be a few select improvements, such as the anticipation action (the head and leg pulling back) be exaggerated more and arced, which, once implemented in the second sequence, vastly improved it.
I wanted to explore it a little more as well, so did another short animation of Birb Blob following something in the sky (off screen, but meant to be other flying birds) and jumping up to fly too. I loved how the slight follow through action of the body squashing a little after pulling the leg around to jump up gave Birb Blob a little weight and looked more realistic and less cartoony, and I loved how form was kept with the wing positions to make a basic 2D shape seem more 3D.
However if I were to do this again I would have Birb Blob look up normally and then have the exaggerated following as a reaction to looking up, as currently Birb Blob just looks like it's stretching.
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