Exaggeration Animation

Free Form Deformation (FFD)

Free Form Deformation (FFD) can easily exaggerate motion by simply moving the bounded lattice points. With 109 FFD presets and customizable timeline keys, designers can create cartoonish effects like squash and stretch, anticipation, and exaggeration. FFD presets can be dragged and dropped onto static objects to make them come alive.

Exaggerate Stale Motion

Bring Life to Static Objects

AMPLIFY MOVEMENT

By adding FFD to existing animated 2D characters, designers can accentuate different parts of the animation by moving lattice points and adjusting intensity levels. FFD keys can also be exaggerated by using transition curves in the timeline. Or, save the hassle by deploying a pre-made FFD template to instantly enrich your animation.

Customized Deformation

The manual adjustment is used for deforming certain parts of the object. You can select multiple lattice points at one time and adjust their intensity level. Meanwhile, the FFD key is automatically added in the timeline once you move the bounded lattice points.

Enhance Existing Motions

Give a cartoonish style to existing animations with FFD Editor’s 36 Squash and Stretch presets. Cartoon Animator 5 even has an updated library of free G3 Human motion files with adjustable FFD effects; giving artists a lot of choice for style.

  • FFD Enhancement
  • Setting FFD Keys

Save Reusable FFD Animation Clips

Custom FFD animations can be saved as FFD clips which are applicable to any character or prop. Temporarily turn off the FFD effect by setting its intensity to zero, instead of deleting it from the timeline.

Adjustable FFD Intensity New in v5.1

By manipulating the overall intensity of the free-form deformation, characters sharing the same FFD animation can exhibit different levels elasticity.

Enliven Any Static Object

In addition to exaggerating animations, FFD effects can be applied to static objects that can be as simple as images, props, or characters with compound structures.

109 Organic FFD Presets

The FFD Editor includes 109 organic FFD presets in six main categories. These presets deform objects in different ways: Basic for scaling and perspective; Sheer for motion velocity; Squash & Stretch for cartoony effects; Convex & Concave for distorting shapes. Only one click is needed to apply an FFD effect and a few clicks more for the object to perform an act.

Basic

Basic presets contain frequently used FFD effects like “center-out”, “round expansion”, “single-sided scaling”, “perspective”, “center rotation”, “rippling”, and more.

109 Organic FFD Presets

The FFD Editor includes 109 organic FFD presets in six main categories. These presets deform objects in different ways: Basic for scaling and perspective; Sheer for motion velocity; Squash & Stretch for cartoony effects; Convex & Concave for distorting shapes. Only one click is needed to apply an FFD effect and a few clicks more for the object to perform an act.

Squash and Stretch

This popular category contains all directions of the Squash and Stretch effect with additional options for staying stationary and volume preservation.

109 Organic FFD Presets

The FFD Editor includes 109 organic FFD presets in six main categories. These presets deform objects in different ways: Basic for scaling and perspective; Sheer for motion velocity; Squash & Stretch for cartoony effects; Convex & Concave for distorting shapes. Only one click is needed to apply an FFD effect and a few clicks more for the object to perform an act.

Sheer

This FFD category gives a sense of velocity to an otherwise static object like moving with the pedal to the metal or coming to a sudden stop by hitting the brakes at the last second.

Embellish FFD Animation

Stack together several FFD effects by enabling the Additive feature and use FFD keys with transition curves to make your animation more appealing than ever before.

FFD Animation Library

Using the newly introduced FFD animation library is like waving a magic wand: simply drag and drop FFDs onto photos and vector graphics to see them perform in a life-like manner. Watch as inanimate objects breath, doze off, jump around, and emote.

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