Traditional Rotation

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Ease-out and Ease-in

This was created with an animation chart in advance to animate a debating character. This technique is called ease out and ease in. The purpose of this was to use the animation chart to time and space pose to pose animations, resulting in acceleration to reach a desired speed.

Straight Ahead

The purpose of this first assignment was to introduce us to the light box, peg bar system, and field guide, and to help us recognize the pros and cons of pose to pose and straight ahead. The method of straight ahead is to draw one frame after the previous frame, using it as reference. This allows the animation to be expressed spontaneously, however, making the animation hard to pre-plan specific timings and drawings tend to run away from animator in terms of continuity. We were given two random words to animate: Absence and Funeral was my word. I created a short 2 second animation where the Grim Reaper forgets to show up at the funeral. The basic unit of time: The animation is based on the fixed projection speed of 24 (fps) and the standard projection rate for film. (16 x 25 x 70mm)

Pose to Pose

Pose to pose method is used where key poses are set and we draw in the in-betweens or tweens. This limits in creative flow but makes sure you can plan action beforehand. I planned out my character’s facial movements with the keyframes first, then filled in my in-between frames.

Bouncing Ball

We created an arc of motion on a separate paper and done our frames based on it. The purpose of this was to understand the arcs of motion, timing and spacing.

Bouncing Character

This animation was done after the bouncing ball animation so we could understand the principle of squash and stretch.

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