Animation Principles in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

     Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs contains prime examples of animation principles throughout the whole movie.
     Squash and stretch is possibly the most used technique throughout the whole movie, many times squash and stretch is overlooked by the audience, but it makes such a huge difference in the flow of the character. One of the more subtle moments of squash and stretch is when Flint goes to turn on the fuse box in the dark, thus startled that his father is right next to him, his head squishes into the fuse-box.
      Anticipation directs the audience to things that happen in the film, whether it is them reacting to something or pointing the viewers at something in the background. Anticipation is used in the Baby Brent Sardine commercial when the wagon falls over he looks and shows the audience what happened.

      Easing takes a big roll in the film because it creates a smooth flow of movement in characters, objects, and effects. When food falls from the sky you notice that it is slowly easing in towards the ground, it makes you feel that the food is accelerating and going really fast!
      Timing is key when animating the size of something, if something moves fast you could get the impression that it is small. But if it moves slow it can give you the idea that it is a massive object. This is relevant when the giant piece of corn falls on the great wall of china and it rolls slowly to make it look huge.

     Staging is important to give mood and atmosphere to a scene, to show what is going on and where the character is. There is a sense of danger inside the peanut brittle cave because of the camera angle and sharpness of the peanut brittle being staged.

     Exaggeration on the characters in the movie are used heavily. Expressions are exaggerated many times throughout, the dad's eyebrows are exaggerated to make him seem very stern, and when he raises them it gives the audience a comedic feeling when they see it.