Rig design process Part 2 Squash and Stretch

Squash and stretch shows the direction of force and the senses of speed





In the 12 principles, some are important in considering character rigs such as Squash and Stretch. It is the most foundational principle but it was only recently be appreciated in CG world, CG movies such as “Open Season” and Madagascar”, the new squash and stretch treatments of character has become a significant element. Elements can be compressed by itself, expanded and stretch out .the variation of the rigidity makes characters more freshly and achieving a more comedic effect, it also can emphasize scene of speed and weight.

Smear is text of squash and stretch which had been discovered by Check Jones, cartoon director of Warner Brothers, instead of brush stroke, the images of the characters were smeared in the in-between which emphasized of the scene of speed and the fluency of the movement could not be replaced by motion blur.
In item of character rigging, the character should be able to wholly and partly deform, limb, torso and head should be deformed and smeared individually.