Bumblebee, CGI, and the Rules of Disney Animation

In this video essay, I use Bumblebee to examine Disney’s 12 principles of animation. Can we apply traditional animation principles to modern CGI? Let’s find out.

TIMECODES:
00:00 - Intro
03:58 - Squash and Stretch
05:21 - Anticipation
06:27 - Staging
07:54 - Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose
08:49 - Follow Through and Overlapping Action
09:49 - Slow In and Slow Out
11:24 - Arc(s)
12:13 - Secondary Action
13:38 - Timing
14:50 - Exaggeration
15:36 - Solid drawing
16:42 - Appeal
18:42 - Conclusion
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Written, recorded, and edited by Queline Meadows (kikikrazed)
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SOURCES:
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
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FOOTAGE:
Intro and Outro Footage (eye and animated explosion) both taken from "Atomic Alert Vol. 1" via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/AtomicAle... which is in the public domain https://creativecommons.org/publicdom...

Note: For on-screen footage credit/attribution in my videos, I will generally credit the distributors for films and TV shows, and the developers for video games.

Film/TV/Video clips used (in order of first appearance):

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008-2010)
Bumblebee (2018)
Transformers (2007)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Day Dreams (1922)
The Gold Rush (1925)
How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made (1937)    • How Walt Disney Cartoons are made  
Mechanical Doll (1922)
Alice’s Wonderland (1923)
Futureworld (1976)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Tron (1982)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Toy Story (1995)
Paramount Movies: BUMBLEBEE | Storyboards | Official Behind the Scenes    • BUMBLEBEE | "Storyboards" Behind the ...  
hollywoodstreams: ‘Bumblebee’ Behind the Scenes    • 'Bumblebee' Behind the Scenes  
Pinocchio (1940)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
Peter Pan (1953)
Cinderella (1950)
Toy Story: Behind the Scenes (DVD Extra) (1995)
The Three Caballeros (1944)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Avatar (2009)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
ScreenSlam: Toy Story 4: Behind the Scenes of the Animation and Production Broll    • Toy Story 4: Behind the Scenes of the...  
Cats (2019)
The Lion King (2019)
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MUSIC:
Music used (in order of first appearance):

Bad Snacks - Easy Sunday via YouTube Audio Library

R.LUM.R - Good Job! via YouTube Audio Library

Jibhey - The End via SoundCloud   / the-end  
Licensed under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Underbelly - Warm Water via YouTube Audio Library

Causmic - Distant Love via YouTube Audio Library

Brockett Parsons, GurtyBeats, Xquisit - 361 Degrees of NYC via SoundCloud   / 361-degrees-of-nyc  
Licensed under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

automata of sheep music - jellyfish sheep beat via SoundCloud   / jellyfish-sheep-beat  
Licensed under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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