One such exaggeration is the illusion of distortion from speed. We’ve all seen the cartoons where something or someone goes dashing across the screen so quickly that the resisting force of their own momentum causes them to streeeeeetch backwards in the direction opposite their trajectory of motion—only to stop so abruptly that the force throws them forward from their stopping point, then back, over and over until the energy of motion dissipates. While it’s hard to visualize something as solid as your car doing that, you can still see a minute example of that principle when you watch your car come to a skidding halt in side profile; although the tires halt at one point of the pavement, the actual chassis of the car continues its forward motion until the firmly-planted position of the base reels it in, jerks it backwards, and sets that “bounce” into motion.
So let’s work on adding that sort of exaggerated bounce into a simple animation, by taking the moving box above and distorting its shape.
