The Elongated Inbetween

 Another quick practise until I settle down tonight to work on assignments. Here is an animation concept that had always interested me, the 'elongated inbetween'.

I first really became aware of this when a while ago people were posting animation stills from well known movies, such as Aladdin. Although at first it was made humorous, it got me thinking about how and why this method was being used.
The elongated inbetween is very useful for a numerous amount of reasons, though what I find is that it helps to create a lot of fluidity for an animation, and also helps to exaggerate a movement which helps for better story-telling.

Although very simple and rough, I've done a quick study of how elongated inbetweens work. Where, once the timing of the frames have been sorted, you can't actually tell how the image is distorted inbetween the main key frames. i.e.

Overall definitely a necessity to hold on to with my future dabbles with animation!