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Squash and stretch

Squash and stretch

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Squash and stretch

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- [Narrator] Here is a ball that's bouncing in place, just up and down with no squash or stretch. So, one of the things that we learn very quickly in animation is the squash and stretch. The object aura tends to look dead, like we see in this case. Now I've added one squash frame on the impact, and that's all, and already you can feel, you don't see it, but you can feel that there is something different happening. Let me try to freeze frame this. And I'm just going to go back a little bit. And here you can see the impact. So, I've made no great attempt to get the best possible transition. I'm simply doing a very basic tween and then a squash, and already, that by itself, is enough that we can begin to feel that impact. So on the next pass, what I decided to do, was to add a single stretch frame on the frame before the squash and a single stretch coming out of it. Let's have a look at that. And again, we're talking about the addition of a principle that is very subtle, and it's just…

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