WEEK 1: Overlap animation
I went through different variations of the scarf and decided that the bulk of the scarf should be completely coloured in to simplify my brush strokes; I could use a big brush and coloured it in with one stroke.
I had the scarf lag behind the animation to give it a bouncy effect, I really enjoy the final result. This was my first time animating overlap and I did so a long time after the initial class was taught.
Ice come to the conclusion that I dislike animating in photoshop, its too tedious and time consuming. It takes so much effort to even make a single frame of animation.
WEEK 1: bouncy balls
When completing the easing in and out assignment, for the green square. During this I select the keyframes and click the “keyframe assistant”, then select “easy ease, ease in” and then on the same keyframes I selected “easy ease, ease out”. For the other red square I only selected “easy ease, ease out” with the keyframe assistant.
This specific task was very tedious to do and I kept having to restart it but I think it taught me the most after new features in after effects.
I had to space out the keyframe in a new way to get that “pop” of elsaticity in the squash and stretch animation. In after effects you have to section off changes in the keyframes to keep the metrics (scale, position etc) constant. so if I have three keyframes 1,2,3. Keyframe 1 is at still at 0,0 then on keyframe 2 I move the position to the left (2,0) . If I didn’t put Keyframe 3 back to (0,0) the ball would still be stuck at (2,0). Seemed simple at first but was more difficult to warp my head around in execution.
When animating the Heavy ball I used a bowling ball as reference. For the light ball I used a tennis ball as a reference.
WEEK 2
Tasked with making a 10 second animation to one of several soundtracks. I choose them happiest sounding one and paired it with the emotion “happy”. When I think of happy I think of bouncy movement, so I assumed it would be the easiest animation that I could apply squash and stretch to, considering those are the animation principles I’m most familiar with.
At the start when planning what to animate I was very ambitious. I wanted to animate a bird turn around and then have the bird scene transition to the egg frying scene. But due to time constraints of only 1 week, I was unable to add much detail to the bird. It only has a body and wings which imply its a bird. it doesn’t have a beak or eyes and its body shape is oversimplified in a way that makes it look like a banana. Which is a result I personally didn’t like at all.
I scheduled myself to colour the end scene of the egg frying. I used a lifeless style to be time efficient, no need to spend so much time lining each frame of animation.
Here the final animation!