"Five Forces" is a high-energy, hand-animated exploration of the major forces commonly involved in most common, daily events -- namely Bending, Compression, Shearing, Tension and Torsion. Massachusetts Institute of Technology students in the LineStorm traditional animation class at the M.I.T. Student Art Association designed and animated individual sequences at the streaming rate of ten drawings for every second of screen time. Pell Osborn, supervisor and SAA instructor, digitized and edited t