Transcending the Principles Mastery means knowing when to break rules. The principles are training wheels for intuition. Here's how experts leverage, subvert, and transcend them. Intentional Violations Anti-Squash/Stretch Rigid motion creates uncanny, mechanical, or ethereal qualities. Spirited Away's gods move without squash - otherworldly presence. Perfect volume preservation can feel more alien than violations. Omitted Anticipation Into the Spider-Verse removes anticipation for snap cuts that feel like comic panels. Absence of anticipation = visual punctuation. Anticipation's removal is a…