Today's lecture was great – it covered some of the most important steps in character animation. The most important things I learnt from these principles were:

Staging – which is to say, only having one dominant figure in the scene at any given time as to not to distract from the other objects

Squash and stretch – where when an object lands in the scene, the object is squashed, say for a bouncing ball or apple falling – and by changing how much it squashes you can change

Follow through– where a moving object connected to another object with a bigger mass moves at a different speed, and accelerates and decelerates with a lag.

We also learnt about Tikanga Maori which had 3 main themes of Respect, Intent, and Knowledge, basically put: do your research before embarking on something with a Māori theme or history – and to not just consult one Māori person about a given topic.

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In class, Louie and I discussed more the narritave of the tree going through stages of it's life