Animation Principles - Exaggeration

Exaggeration is used to push movements further to add more drama and appeal to an action. The level of exaggeration depends on the particular style you're after - less exaggeration creates a more realistic action, more exaggeration creates a stylized, cartoonish action.

The human eye can easily understand the visuals when they are crystal clear and graphic

The human eye can easily understand the visuals when they are crystal clear and graphic

Exaggeration is used to push the moment, and add more appeal to the action pose or expressions

Exaggeration is used to push the moment, and add more appeal to the action pose or expressions

Exaggeration is used to push the moment, and add more appeal to the action pose or expressions

While doing any acting for any character you will have to think about their emotions, what they are thinking what they are feeling, and then push the pose with bold drawing

It can be added by pushing the drawing even further than the realism to make it believable

Think in a way that you are doing the caricature of the pose

In cartoons, we have to make things a bit exaggerated to make them more believable

For an example of anger 3 poses, you can add exaggeration until you get satisfied

When you do animation try and look for the exaggerated key poses so it looks more believable

Squash and stretch/ Arch/ follow through, overlap.. etc has the exaggeration all over