Lebanon Digital Art: March 2015

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Squash and Stretch in Steven Universe

This is a clip from one of the many episodes of Steven Universe, this one mainly involving Amethyst and Garnet becoming Sugilite in their fusion. There aren't exactly very noticeable sections on where the "Squash and Stretch" principles are, yet they occur very often within the video. Many of them include the facial expressions when conversing, sometimes pinched in a little or stretched out a lot (a major example is at 2:23 with Steven's face). There's squash and stretch within some of the body movements as well, mainly within the dance between Garnet and Amethyst before they fuse.

Squash And Stretch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsDZ6ZZ7YAQ

Here's my video for Squash and stretch (I can't find it with the search through the blog so I put the youtube link). The Squash and stretch can be seen through the face and arms of Flinn as the hair grabs him. What I like about that video is that it's about Rapunzel because I like the movie. But other than that, it's simple but it really shows squash and stretch. At the end, his face does flowing movement while stretching. It looks like a very natural move. And it's pretty funny I think :)

squash and stretch anmation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsDZ6ZZ7YAQ

The video before you is a fine example of squash and stretch

I chose Squash and Stretch for this movie called Bolt. The part in the movie where I see squash and stretch is when Bolt the puppy is playing with the carrot toy. Also when he's biting it and jumping up and down like other puppy's do. You can clearly see the squash and stretch in this scene. I also liked this movie a lot because it's such a great animated movie. Plus the movement of his face features and all the other face features in the clip.

Squash/Stretch Example

This is a clip from Tom & Jerry, involving dragons. The examples of squish/stretch don't really come in until about 0:12, but until then there's dragons.
When running and looking up at the dragons fighting (0:15 or so), Tom slightly squishes and stretches.
Jerry literally gets squished by a dragon (0:22). When he bounces back up, he does some very extreme squashing and stretching. Acting like an accordion or slinky, he stretches up, goes into the air, squishes back into himself, and stretches again as he falls down. This occurs with Tom as well near the end.