Second week on my MA Character Animation course. This week was how to Animate Bouncy Balls. Started off with balls falling of a table, such as ping-pong balls, bowling balls, beach balls, footballs and water balloons and so forth. Then recording a few examples with this video below.
Then I roughly planned out were the bounces will hit with a ping-pong ball and a beach ball.
Then I jumped onto a light box and Flipbook on the mac, to drawn down the key-frames to test if the bounces worked well and placed right.
And then I decided to continue to animate either the ping-pong or the beach ball for my finished product of the bouncing ball. I decided that to continue with the beach ball to add the in-between frames that were missing. And needed to drawn in as this animation below show.
My feedback was the animation needed some frames to remove to flow better and a positive feedback was my timing for the bounces were right. End of that exercise.
Bye.
Did some shadow puppets during my first week on my MA course. A quick day project in random groups. I had six people in my group (included myself in the group of six). Got the idea done within 20 minutes. Got the characters drawn and cut out in no time. My drawn and cut-out character is the picture below.
So, we had more time filming the story until the day was finish. I did do the post-production part, that was someone else. But, I would have done it, I would have deleted the audio and put in a better audio, to give it a more hunted feel to the video. So here is the final piece below.
And that was my first week over on my MA Character Animation course.
Bye.
My first lesson was learning two things that I have never used before or haven't used for a while. First thing is a light box to draw on, which I haven't used a long while.
Second thing I haven't use is a program called Flipbook.
I started off with the X-sheet. Placing were the bounces are going to bounce in which frame.
Then gone straight to the light box and draw the drawings for each frame I wanted to put into the animation.
Then gone onto the computer open up the flipbook program, check all the settings for the camera are right and then scan all my drawings using a camera above.
Then gone into flipbook and checked if the screen shots in flipbook.
After all that, export the animation as a DV-pal quicktime file and uploaded onto YouTube.
And that is my first day on my MA Character Animation course.
Bye.
My major announcement is that I am back at University doing a MA (Masters degree)in Character Animation somewhere in a London University for the next two years. So therefore, I am continuing the blog for the next two years at least, the first proper post will be ready in a few days time. But, for now.
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Last year for my Final Major Project for Animation I created a two minute animation called 'Donny and Pete' (2011), were you have a smart cat called Pete with a dumb human who knows nothing called Donny.
Donny and Pete
If I could have put this in my research I would have I saw this last year on the Aniboom Youtube page called: 'Max and Monkey- A Bromance Aniboom Animation' and was created by Alex Fass (web-site).
Max and Monkey- A Bromance Aniboom Animation
Alex Fass stated on his own web-site that the “Max & Monkey” concept was created both for the production and the pitch of an adult humored, animated television series. Max is a not so intelligent person, while Monkey is the intelligent one out of the pair of them, possibly the same characteristics as my characters, I think Donny is more stupid than Max in my opinion.
Max & Monkey was created by using three programmes:Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Also, using Cintiq, a graphic tablet you can draw into Illustrator and Photoshop instead of using a mouse.
My thoughts on the two animations. The first animation above have it's own unique style with Maya, Illustrator and Photoshop altogether. The second animation below, if I didn't know that the animation was created in Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya I think the animator was nearly copping my style with Donny and Pete. But, yet again I don't believe his copping by style at all. But, personally the first animation has its own style more on its own compared to the second animation which was a bit more flat without the 3D style.
Anyway, great animations altogether.
Max and Monkey Ep. 2 - An Odd Couple Aniboom Animation by Alex Fass
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In a pervious blogs/posts I done last year and the year before that, I showed of my showreel from 2010 and 2011. So here is the up to date version of the 2012 showreel below which includes some new animations, so enjoy the showreel folks.
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Last year I entered myself in the Red Bull Canimation competition back in November 2011. I was influenced by the Red Bull Racing team and Sebastian Vettel recent glory for my animation.
Most recently, I have seen this is animation below, created by Animateer and Illustrator designer Ruf Blacklock.
The creator of the animation Ruf Blacklock, who is a big fan of Formula 1 himself, wanted to created an animation that shows the evolution of Formula 1 car from the last 62 years and has not been shown on any video streaming site until now. Each car is the winning chassis from the respective seasons, for examples the 1978 Lotus 79 and 1983 Brabham BT52 was drawn in. Even the evolution of the steering wheels from 1950s to the present day was included. Also, the animation was created in Adobe After Effects.
My thoughts on the animation overall, I felt that the animation worked really well throughout the 60 seconds. I felt the background music and sound effects worked really well. The sound effects were spot on with the noise of the formula one car of present. I felt the styling work well and using simple colours, reminds the styling of the Tron films. The big positive point I felt that the timing was right, if it was longer than 90 second I think it might not work. If it was 45 seconds it would have been too short for the animation, so a minute was spot on in my opinion. Is their any negative points, nothing I can really notice.
Overall, I enjoyed the animation altogether. Despite, I am a big Formula 1 fan myself.
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