Wednesday, 19 October 2016

emotions and head turning



Emotion facial expression

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I have looked at youtube video of facial expressing in animation and the main point that to make expressions such as the eyebrowns, mouth, eyes and facial lines.

The examples below of two version of happy, Sad, Angry, Bored, Content, Worried, Glaring, Sarcastic, Scared.




I have been looking at tutorials on a youtube called DrawWithJazza that does animations video on 2d animation on the adobe software Animate.

i have been drawing in animate expression and showing how expressions can change in motion l

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

12 Principle of Animation





1. Squash and stretch


Squash and stretch used for making the illusion of a fast object such as a bouncing ball that as it bounces up and down the effect as it goes up it gets thinner when it gets faster and then the when it comes back down the and hits the fall the ball squashes as it comes down as the ball its bouncing down
the racing animation uses squash and stretch in the sharp turns such a a zig zag


http://www.animatorisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/sandsBall.png
https://www.animdesk.com/wp-content/uploads/squetch_ball.jpg





2. Anticipation



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The anticipation of animation is the before the action is made such as the example below someone getting into poses when they getting ready to through the ball but it an action that shows they are about then they throw the ball which is shown below too.

The Anticipation happen in all animation such as examples of animals jumping, someone swings a baseball pat, pushing something there are endless anticipation actions that are used in animation






3. Staging

Staging the animation that communicates with the audience showing the character expression and body language so we can understand the animation better than as for the bad staging I can't see the characters faces and expressions and the body language that are giving off to the audience 

as for the second example 



4. Straight Ahead and pose to pose animation

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Straight ahead is focus on more frame by frame drawing the character in each time and changing how the character is moving in the pose that its also can have a disadvantage such as you can lose the size of the character that can make the animation have a small error in it.

Pose to Pose is doing the beginning of the animation then the end and then filling in the gaps of the animation such as the example below where you have key 1 , key 2, key 3, key 4 showing  beginning is key 1 and then most people do key 3 and then go back and finish the middle




5.Follow Through and Overlapping actions 


6. Slow-Out and Slow-In 





slow- in & slow out

Bouncing ball animation starts off slow as the frames of the ball are close together that make it slow and as the frames of the bouncing ball become more spaced out makes the ball faster as it bounces back up and slow out




7. Arc

natural actions normally follow through an arc that is applied to the limbs and by rotating joint


8. Secondary Action


9. Timing 

Timing in animation is a trial and error to experiment with slow and fast animation and find what is best suited to make a faster animation and to a slower animation 


10. Exaggeration 

Exaggeration is a action that gives films more appeal 

11. Solid Drawing 

solid drawing 



12. Appeal 

All appeal in an animation is not just based on the main character it base on all them have to have appeal in the design an d overall animation in early cartoons the animation was strung on the main theme of the animation but now the animation 

Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Exercise 2 Frame By Frame Animation Loop (done, video needed)




Exercise 2

Frame by frame animated loop



I have done a small animation on an Adobe Animate of a bouncing ball show where speed is needed and slowness of the animation is needed as well and to compare the animation together

My animation with guidelines of where the bouncing ball was going and how it was going to slow down and speed up but it also helps with understanding where you are going in the animation and the different scenes.

In the making of this small animation, I used the brush tool to make my guideline in the animation see where I would put the bouncing ball each frame

The first scene of the bouncing ball I tween the ball to go across the page as in animation tween is filling in the gaps of an animation example such as