The four facets of animation are Anticipation, Action, Follow-thro and Settle.
I was the Principal and Senior-faculty at the Heart Animation Academy and I insisted that my students incorporate the four elements in every exercise they did.

One student wrote to me with respect to payment of his tuition fees.

“In anticipation of your action, I will follow-thro writing letters to my parents and settle payment of fees”.

Some students who joined the Heart Animation Academy were school drop outs. It was their penchant for fine line drawing that found them a berth in the Academy. When they moved into their second year of training, there was a selection process to segregate them into different skill levels. A select few were given the work-stations.

I summoned the selected students and told them that they were very lucky to be put in the stations.

One student began to tremble. He asked me in Telugu. “What mistakes have I done to be put in the station (meaning Police station)?