Comprehensive Study Notes: Animation Principles, Teamwork, Television & Film, and Professional Skills

Squash and Stretch: technique exaggerates deformation of an object to highlight flexibility.
Anticipation: prepares the audience for the action that is to follow and prevents it from looking abrupt or unnatural.
Staging: ensures that the audience completely understands a situation.
Arcs: Characters should move along arcs or curves instead of straight lines to ensure that their movement looks natural and lifelike.
Follow through & Overlapping action:
- Follow-through is like anticipation, but it happens at the termination of an action. For example, when you stop after having run some distance, you will pant for a while before your breathing returns to normal.
- Overlapping action is any secondary movement generated by the main movement. The shoulder bag a character wears will swing when the character starts walking. The animation needs to show that movement.
Straight-Ahead action and Pose-to-Pose Action:
- Straight-ahead involves animating an object frame by frame until the end of the action.
- Pose-to-pose involves drawing particular stages of the action first then filling in the intermediate frames later.

Teamwork is essential for businesses because the collective input of many is greater than the individual input–basically many brains are better than one.
Traits of a person with great teamwork skills
- Confidence: Ex. Your boss asks you to give a presentation last minute. You are confident in your ability to present the information.
- Honesty: Ex. Reporting that money is missing from a register, filling out your timesheet correctly and not adding time.
- Punctuality: Ex. Showing up to work or meetings on time.

Joseph Niepce is credited with the creation of the first video.
One of the first famous movies was The Race Horse (1878).
Sony created the first portable video recorder.
Roles in film and television production:
- Director: the creative and technical leader of a film production.
- Producer: gains the financial backing for a project.
- Scriptwriter: writes the dialogue and stage directions for the actors.
- Cinematographer: takes instructions from the director and uses the camera to capture scenes.

Animation is achieved through making very small changes between scenes to give the illusion of movement when it is played quickly.
Animators use storyboards at the beginning of their planning stages for an animation. They use the storyboard to plan out the story their animation is going to tell.
Animation Principles:
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Resourcefulness: Ex. Using what you have learned and what you have to complete tasks given to you.
Responsibility: Ex. Taking ownership of tasks that you have been given to complete.

Traits of a person with bad teamwork skills
- Dishonesty: Ex. Lying to your boss about taking money from the cash register, adding time to your timesheet.
- Unkind/Rude: Ex. When asked questions, you are short or disrespectful.
- Arrogance: Ex. Being overconfident and seeming unapproachable to your coworkers.
- Selfish: Ex. puts their own goals above the goals of their team.
Self-Representation
- Traits of good Self-Representation
- Responsibility: being accountable for your actions.
- Mutual Respect: respecting your leaders and coworkers and them respecting you.
- Self-management: skills to take care of and better yourself. Ex. Taking classes for personal development.
- Why is self-representation important in the corporate world?
- It determines the kind of interactions you have with your coworkers.
Positive Work Ethics
- Examples of positive work ethics
- Being flexible: allows you to learn new skills to be better at your job.
- Taking initiative: doing things and helping out without having to be asked.
- Being courteous: being kind and not interrupting people when they are talking.
- Confidentiality: not repeating information that is not yours to share.