The Laws of Physics in an Animation Universe Outline

Thesis: For many animated features, story is king, everything in the movie is designed to advance the storytelling or enhance the visual communication of the character's personality. Emperor’s New Groove adapts a flexible use of rules of physics, either adhering to the the rules or bending them to create a better sense of who the characters and creating a more entertaining and enthralling film.
I .opening scene: things come in and out of frame and king reacts to them in a way that demonstrates character
Adheres for character development and entertainment: when a man comes with a spittoon the water does fall in a perfect arc – as it misses the bowl to hit his head
1. Bends for character development: Kuzco throws things and moves them around, creating snappy timing and pacing, but the objects fly so fast and straight there is often no parabolic arc
2. This bending of physics is established first, creating a bigger suprise when it adheres for character development and entertainment: when a man comes with a spittoon the water does fall in a perfect arc – as it misses the bowl to hit his head, we are used to the items landing perfectly despite laws of physics, the spitting on the man's head reinforces that Emporer Kuzco does not care about others
II. Bending the laws of newton's second law, playing with the forces and resistance of objects
1. Bends for character delopment: large, peacock feather costume, fabric that behaves like a feather stiff but pliant. One material acting under the laws of another to illustrate his character as pompous and preening like a bird
III. law of newton's first law of motion
1. adheres: characters costumes and characteristics have realistic and appealing follow through
kusco's and pancha's wife earrings, Pancha's daughter's pigtails
story: uses path of action of a pendulum, to show peasant swinging in to save emperor Kuzco – he appears after the pendulum has reached its highest velocity, then misses and takes advantage of that slowing out time to increased the tension that Kuzco won't be saved from the jaguars
2. Bends: Ezma rockets down the hillside she picks up enough acceleration that when she lands in the middle of a children's party she stops unrealistically
IV. Not sure of the principle at work here, force pusing inward on itself, kuzco and pancha must use their legs to displace force of the canyon to create enough resistance to escape a canyon, this is the first moment that they work together instead of each being motivated by their own personal agendas – this use of extreme physics also comes into play at the climax of the movie when the pair must again use this technique to finally turn Kuzco back into a human