Animation Fundamentals Exercises

01/08/2022 - 04/10/2022
Osezua Ehizogie Ejodame / 0351565 
Animation Fundamentals /Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)/Creative Media Design(Minor)/
School of Computer Science
Exercises

Lectures 

Week 1
Introduced to the module and how we will work in this semester. Referenced books on animation to read on. 

Week 2

Animation Princples (Fluiditity in animation)

1. Frame rate: Rate at which images or drawings are displayed.

Films usually use 24 fps. (Frames per second)

2. Timing: The number of drawings used effects how fast or slow the action appears.

3. Spacing

4. Slow in and Slow out:

5. Arcs

Week 3 

Animation Principles (Elasticity & Flexibility in animation)
6. Animation styles: can range from realistic to "cartoony". "Cartoony" animation styles make use of squash and stretch.

7. Elasticity (squash & stretch): 

It is important to maintain the volume of the shape when applying squash and stretch to objects. 

It brings life to an objects movements.

The amount of squash and stretch on an object can give us an idea on how heavy it is when it is falling from a height for example.

8. Drag, Follow through and overlapping (flexibility)

Follow through is the opposite of drag. Overlapping happens in between the drag and follow through.

Week 4

Solid Drawing

Line of action

 

Line of action to make character poses more dynamic

Contrapossto


 

 Notes:
Cute or child-like character proportions are usually three heads tall.

Adult character proportions are usually seven or eight heads tall.


Silhouettes

Silhouettes should be clearly visible when showing characters actions. 

Week 5

Perspective Drawing

 


 


Fig: Rough sketches for 1 point, 2 point and 3 point perspective done in class.


Instruction

Week 2

Exercise 1: Bouncing Ball Animation

First Attempt at Bouncing Ball (10/09/2022)

 Week 3

Exercise 2: Bouncing Ball with Tail animation

First attempt at bouncing ball with tail (15/09/2022)


Second attempt at bouncing ball with tail (16/09/2022)

Week 4 

Exercise 3: Emotion poses


Fig. progress (27/09/2022)


 


Finished Emotion Poses (27/09/2022)

 

Week 5

Exercise 4: Turnaround Animation

Progress (04/10/2022)





Morty Smith Turnaround Animation (04/10/2022)


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