Week 10: Animation

Lab 1 Exercise 2

This is the video I filmed with my friends during the Lab 1 Exercise 2. This video demonstrates some principles of animation. Firstly, it demonstrates Staging. Notice our background acts like a stage for us to pass the ball to each other. If the background is replaced with a plain white screen, there would not be a stage anymore.

Secondly, this also demonstrates Arcs. Notice how our hands are positioned and move when we throw the ball. These actions occur along an arched trajectory. We are moving our forearm by rotating a joint, in an arc.

Reflection
Learning these twelve principles of animation will greatly enhance and make a difference to an animation without them. These principles will make the animation look more realistic and entertaining. Some exaggeration are also applied to make the audience laugh.


Lab 1 Exercise 3

The entire video has a stage, which is that backyard or their garden.


[1.20 ~ 1.21] Anticipation is demonstrated here as the person has a diving posture. It prepares the audience for an action such as diving.

[1:50 ~ 1:59] Squash and Stretch is demonstrated here with the balloon squashing and stretching. With the help of slow-motion, the squash and stretch effect appears to be much more obvious than usual without slow-motion.

[2:38 ~ 3:04] This is also another good scene of Squash and Stretch.

Every time they attempted to jump on the huge balloon, there will be follow through and overlapping actions in their hair and their clothes.

There is also a slow-in and slow-out during their jump in slow-mo.

Timing is also displayed during the slow-motion scene whereby there are lesser frames during the first half of the slow-mo and towards them hitting the ball, the frames increased and it displays more frames per second and thus letting us have a better view of whats happening in that split second.

Reflection
After doing this exercise, I have learnt that even principles of animation can be applied to real life. However exaggeration is difficult to apply in real life videos as compared to cartoon. However I feel that cartoons that applied the principles will definitely make it stand out. It all boils down to how efficiently we apply these principles to our future work.

Week 10: Lab 2 Exercise 1:

An animation of a heavy bowling ball bouncing
A heavy bowling has minimal or no squash and stretch as the bowling ball is often made from a solid or a very hard kind of material. This video shows a bowling ball bouncing.

Bowling Ball Animation Chart

Throwing The Ball Up And Down In Real Life

Animation Chart For Throwing Ball Up And Down

Throwing The Ball Up And Down In Animation


Animation <- Click the link plox

Exercise 2

What is ease-in ease-out reference to animation?

It is a way to make my animations move in a more life-like manner is to vary the rate at which they move.

What does frames-per-second mean?

It means how many frames are displayed per second. More frames per second means smoother animation and lesser frames per seconds would be the opposite. 

Why is squash and stretch so useful in animation?
A squash and stretch makes the ball look more realistic. A ball will not stay the same shape when it hits the grounds and bounces off(with an exception to some like bowling ball). It also provides some entertainment for the eyes. A ball that does not change shape while bouncing throughout a video will be kind of like a ball  floating in my opinion.

Think of a situation in which extreme squash and stretch could be applied to a character - try to be original.
A cartoon character trapped inside a manufacturing factory, with lots of machinery squashing and stretching the product to try and fit inside a can.


Think of an animation example where squash and stretch would NOT be appropriate.
An animation with solids objects in reference to real life such as metal chains. Metal chains will not be appropriate, even in cartoons to apply squash and stretch because it is just not possible.