- Disney's 12 Principles of Animation
- Squash and Stretch
- Anticipation
- Staging
- Straight Ahead Action and Pose-to-Pose
- Follow Through and Overlapping Action
- Slow In and Slow Out
- Arcs
- Secondary Action
- Timing
- Exaggeration
- Solid Drawing
- Appeal
- Closing Thoughts
Straight Ahead Action and Pose-to-Pose
Both are methods for creating an animation. In straight ahead action, you would draw everything in frame one and then move on to do the same in frame two. You would continue to draw every frame from first to last in sequence. This method allows animators to explore and discover as they go.
With pose-to-pose, you draw important keyframes and then create in-between frames to connect them. This is how computer animation works, and it’s the way you work with CSS animations. This method allows more planning up front and lets the computer do much of the work.