Animation Principles: Anticipation

 I practised a new principle of animation today, which was anticipation. to do this I animated a figure throwing a ball, both with and without anticipation to show the difference adding anticipation can have. I found my animations actually used some of the other principles too like; arcs in the arms, a blur and even squash and stretch on the ball. I'm pretty surprised how much of a difference anticipation can add, it made the first gif have so much more energy and character than the gif showing no anticipation and overall looked far better than the second gif.