exaggeration in animation

This animation was really to try and help me push my animation skills so I wanted to utilise the fact I was creating a predominantly frame by frame animation. This animation was also relying heavily on visual gags so it was important that the animation helped carry them. This was an opportunity to really push exaggerated movements through my animation that I hadn't really done previously. 

Something I had not really done before in animation was the use of stretch frames. They're really good to exaggerate a movement especially in this "cartoony" way. I read the section in the animators survival kit and tried to take not of the use of stretch frames in other animations. One that particularly inspired me was a quick animation test from an animator at Animade. (https://www.instagram.com/p/BSwCXH0Bx6g/?taken-by=animadetv&hl=en)

Another thing was being conscious of animating motion blur to help exaggerate a movement. Normally it's just something I try to add in post but I wanted to be fully in control of how the motion blur looks and its timed as you can get a more appropriate look doing it properly with cel. 

Overall I've tried to exaggerate movements where appropriate to really try and flex some animation skills.

Here are two shots were I tried to push a bit of extra exaggeration in my animation featuring stretch frame, blur and stretchy limbs.