The Disney 12 principles of animation can be considered as a basis for all animation. These rules of animation may have been discovered decades ago, but they remain just as relevant today for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Check out this fun robot called Tofu, who is named after the squashing and stretching food product. TOFU is a project to explore new ways of robotic social expression by leveraging techniques that ...