animation

Adobe Animation on the theme seasons


I have done my autumn leaves for my animation and colouring them in an orange-brown, I have made different folders to see the separate effects of the seasons.

I have also drawn my snowflakes for the winter season in photoshop then I dragged it onto adobe Animate and made them into a pattern like the autumn leaves in my animation also my idea creating for the seasons of spring and summer I think i might do the petals and flowers just sprouting out the ground and for summer i am going to do flowers falling and on the grass of my animation there might be flowers swaying in  the wind.


these are the design that i will be using in my animation

I have show a short preview of  my animation and how the leaves and snowflakes falling from the sky showing how the seasons are changing in my animation i am also planning to add music in my animation i have genre of songs that i think might suit my animation.

 ANIMATION AUTUMN

I have shown images of how i have done autumn in my animation with the seasons

ANIMATION WINTER


This is my Winter season with snowflaks falling i am going to add blue to the snowflake to make them stand out on the white background.

2D season animation

Animation Seasons 

I am doing a cat walk cycle for my animation of seasons and I have found youtube videos of cats walking side view to have more of an understanding of the structure of how the cat

Production schedule 

(table)

Research 

I have done some research on seasons such as season are the different types of weather we have throughout the year which are spring, summer  autumn and winter, example of what different.

Summer: Summer is bright colorful and full of life, flowers grow some may think its when new life can begin again


Spring: bright colors and the start of new life and the glowing

Autumn: where the leaves change color and it start getting a little bit colder

Winter: has the theme of blues, whites, grays as the weather and atmosphere is cold and it can be use with some bright colors

Moodboard

this is a quick mood board that i have done of Autumn, Spring, Winter, Summer showing colors that are used and themes in the different seasons that are shown.

sketches of seasons  [seasons sketches done]




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i have done for small sketches of the four seasons to show my ideas of my 2d animation with the theme "season" as i am doing different ideas of mix media on my sketches to show my how i have developed my animation

character model sheet
[need to do]



character expression sheet
[need to do]

storyboard
[need to do]

mind maping
[need to do]

background
[need to do]

Concept art

[need to do]

reference list

pictures
https://www.google.co.uk/search?
q=autumn+leaves&safe=strict&espv=2&biw=1247&bih=1234&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWmsG616_PAhWpAsAKHd_nDt8QsAQIIw#imgrc=1ZrGSbLqYPfAzM%3A

http://www.free-vectors.com/images/Nature/086_vector-autumn-leaves-l.jpg

expression animation

This is my expression animation that I have made to show that the eyes and mouth are the key points on how an expression can change and how it it make you look sad, happy, angry and scared. 

Walking cycle

WALKING CYCLE 

I have gone on Adobe Creative Cloud Animate which is how I made my walking cycle my first version is quite fast as my frames are close together and if you notice the head is to straight go to the page which is an error I have done in the making of my walk cycle. 

This is the slow version of the animation below in the slow version you can see more detail on how the arms and legs are moving and that you can observe the making of the animation more and see more errors if there is any as well  

http://www.angryanimator.com/word/2010/11/26/tutorial-2-walk-cycle/

 

emotions and head turning

Emotion facial expression

http://ahninniah.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ExpressionSheet1.jpg 

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

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

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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

http://docs.toonboom.com/help/harmony-12/essentials/Content/Resources/Images/EDU/HAR/Student/an_keyframe_guide.png

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 

https://danterinaldidesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Secondary04.jpg

6. Slow-Out and Slow-In 

http://www.brianlemay.com/Pages/animationschool/animation/Principles/Slo-in%20&%20Slo-out.jpg

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

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secondary actions

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 

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