{"id":811530,"date":"2023-08-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/?p=811530"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:35:21","slug":"squash-and-stretch-in-after-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/squash-and-stretch-in-after-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Exaggerate your animation using squash and stretch in After Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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School of Motion<\/a> is reimagining art school with world-class training that is available on your schedule from anywhere on Earth. They offer a wide variety of courses that can take your creative goals to the next level. Check out their website<\/a> to see all of their offerings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A version of the below article originally appeared on School of Motion's blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Using squash and stretch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Squash and Stretch<\/strong> is an \"easy to learn, hard to master\" principle, mostly because it's very easy to overdo it. Want to show that your object is moving fast? Maybe your animation needs to feel heavy and make an impact. But how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Squash and Stretch is a super simple animation principle to grasp, but a little trickier to implement. The tools in After Effects<\/a> are set up very intuitively for it, but there are plenty of ways to work around that and get your animations looking awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Richardson<\/a> shows us how effective squash and stretch can be for exaggerating movement and adding a little more life to your animations. Check out this quick tip, and then head over to School of Motion to download the project files<\/a> if you'd like to follow along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Squash and stretch After Effects tutorial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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