Follow Through + Lotte Reiniger research
another animation principle is follow through which is similar to overlapping action which are also associated with another technique called drag but they are all described the same thing but in different ways. Follow through refers to the same parts of the body that continue to move after the body has stopped. For example, a character that jumps needs to follow through with their landing and if a character has extra skin, it can be treated as a separate entity with drag and follow through. Arms are also a good place to use follow through and overlapping action.
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best-known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed made in 1926. The first feature-length animation film and Papageno 1935. She studied at Charlottenburger Waldschule which was the first open-air school where she learned the German art of silhouette inspired by the Chinese art of paper cutting and silhouette puppetry. In 1918 she animated wooden rats and created the animated intertitles for Wegener's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. This got her admitted into Institute for Cultural Research, an experimental animation and short-film studio. She made six short films over the few years, and they were all produced by her husband. Working with a crew of five people, Reiniger made her silhouettes by hand photographing the animation frame by frame in a friend's garage. The process took her 5 years to complete.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed- 1926

















