Week 5 - Anticipation - Small Large Ball

For this animation, we were given the task of comparing the anticipation between 2 balls. One with a large 'build up' of anticipation and one with a small 'build up'. Anticipation is very important as its name is what it does, it creates anticipation for the viewer. It also illustrates the idea that something is about to happen. For example, here is a clip of how anticipation works with characters:

As we can see from this video clip, for the man to jump he must build up that kinetic energy first and then leap. The stages of build up is anticipation as we can clearly see his actions to what will lead to his next action which would be the jump. Another example would be this:

 

In this clip, the anticipation builds up by him bringing his arms back and then leaping into the water. The anticipation here again would be his arms and the slight lean backwards to suggest that he is going to leap forward.