Space ship!!!

Alright, this week is the SPACE SHIP! Plan it out and go! We're gonna start using a horizon line on our animations now because it gives the animation depth. Draw your horizon line on separate sheet of animation paper. This will be your background so don't animate on this. Just leave it behind what you're animating on. Remember to focus on the animation and not how cool you can make your space ship look. The more lines there are on it, the more things you have to animate. Here's the layout:

I challenge you to do the first pass of your animation, then shoot it and see what you could do yourself to make it better. Maybe the Space Ship moves too fast to get to it's holding spot, or maybe that exit looks too slow. Try a combination 1s, 2s and 3s to get different timing results.

This is all about anticipation, the action before the action. Go left before right, go up before down and so on. Make the wind up as extreme as possible, use your imagination, try different things.
Here are a few references to check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xXu_9JN3YA
4:35; 5:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkCQaN4Vugs&feature=related
1:55; 2:08; 7:54;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRtKAQJUc3g&feature=related
2:30

Have fun guys!!
~Chad