The distortion of motion, actions or objects, But when animating not to over exaggerate, taking the animation out of proportion. It might stand out too much and if everything is blown out of proportion it will come across as unrealistic.
This quick example was taken from ‘Ren and Stimpy’ and shows and exaggerated reaction of shock and fear in a character, a very cartoon reaction with humour to make sense of this over exaggeration of such a character.
Animation can bend and push the motions and shape of the object or character
EXTRACTS - from 'The Illusion of Life'
Exaggeration, Page 65, 66
If a character was to be sad, make him sadder. bright, make him brighter; worried, more worried; wild, make him wilder. Some of the artists thought that "exaggeration" meant a distorted drawing, or an action is violent and disturbing ... When Walt asked for realism, he wanted to caricature of realism. One artist analysed it correctly when he said "I don't think he meant 'realism' I think he meant something that was more convincing, that made a bigger contact with people, and he just said 'realism' because 'real' things do ... Every so often [in the animation] the character would do something unconvincing, or to show how clever the animator was, and it wasn't really, it was phoney"
This early Tom and Jerry Cartoon is a good example of exaggeration especially when Tom becomes over emotional during the end, and when Tom burns his tail on the fire.
This other example is a shortened episode of Cow and Chicken, but there are still many examples of exaggeration in the clip.
EXTRACTS - from 'The Illusion of Life'
Exaggeration, Page 65, 66
If a character was to be sad, make him sadder. bright, make him brighter; worried, more worried; wild, make him wilder. Some of the artists thought that "exaggeration" meant a distorted drawing, or an action is violent and disturbing ... When Walt asked for realism, he wanted to caricature of realism. One artist analysed it correctly when he said "I don't think he meant 'realism' I think he meant something that was more convincing, that made a bigger contact with people, and he just said 'realism' because 'real' things do ... Every so often [in the animation] the character would do something unconvincing, or to show how clever the animator was, and it wasn't really, it was phoney"
This early Tom and Jerry Cartoon is a good example of exaggeration especially when Tom becomes over emotional during the end, and when Tom burns his tail on the fire.
This other example is a shortened episode of Cow and Chicken, but there are still many examples of exaggeration in the clip.
- Curly
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