Animation 1 - Wk 5 - Animating cycles

 Walk cycle

 I originally wanted to try animating a walk cycle traditionally, however it got to a point where each frame was either bigger or thinner than the others. Also, flipping the pages got difficult and I lost track of the next key frame. In addition, its hard to pinpoint on the next frame and to either do 12-frames per second or 24 frames per second. For a solution, I would work on how to flip the pages easily and put less paper on the clipboard to not lose track.

Dog Running In a Circle
 

Although I wasn't able to do a walk cycle digitally, I decided on a dog running in a circle cycle. It was easier to do the animation on the computer because I was able to organise and keep track using layers in Adobe Animate CC 2017 ( Adobe Flash). It was actually easier and faster to work then working traditionally.

Animation 1 Wk 3 - Animating Fire

I decided for my next animation, I would animate fire but, as I kept animating and flipping through each frame, I realised that the fire was getting wider and didn't act like how fire would. For a solution, I would look at some reference of fire and how it moves and spreads.  

Animation 1 Wk 2 - Head Turning

It was very easy to make the head turn by drawing a circle making sure it matches and then started drawing the face structure, then the eyes and ended by drawing the nose. It took 8 pieces of paper in-order to make the cycle. However, while editing the video, the shots are not straight and accurate so I had to move some of the images to create a head turning cycle. I wanted to scan the pages using a scanner but I do not have one and had to improvised using my phone.

Animation 1 Wk 2+3 - Reflection on Exercises/Homework

Your second blog post is to reflect on one or more of the animation exercises done in class and in homework that have challenged you the most.  

While animating the flipbook from week 2, the most challenging part of the exercise was coming up with the concept. At first, I did simple thumbnails and character designs for the flipbook but I didn’t know where to place the camera for the scene and end up trashing the scene and moving on to a different idea. I ended up doing a simple transformation from a girl to a mutant creature and after getting the thumbnails ready, I split the flipbook in half leaving 50 leaves for each. I used one of them as a rough practice sketch for keys and in-between and once I was happy with the result, I copied it over the other flipbook so I don’t have to keep erasing a messing up the flipbook.  

 Another challenge in class was do a head turn of a character. What was challenging about was getting the nose right since there was no reference of the character and I ended up with a deformed nose. I did multiple attempts but all didn’t fit the character head turn. Also, I had trouble flipping the pages and ended up with creases and damaged paper.