Media Arts and Digital Storytelling · Media Arts

Animation Fundamentals

Exploring the principles of squash and stretch, timing, and anticipation in digital animation.

Key Questions

  1. 1How do we give life to inanimate objects through movement?
  2. 2Why is exaggeration necessary in animation to make it feel 'real'?
  3. 3What role does persistence of vision play in how we see moving images?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9AME6C01AC9AME6D01
Year: Year 6
Subject: The Arts
Unit: Media Arts and Digital Storytelling
Period: Media Arts

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