1. Assignment: Hands
2. Drawing/Processing time: Approx. 1 hour
3. I’m still having a har time coming to grips with making precise copies of existing drawings. Making sure that everything’s at the right ange is especially hard.
Week # 2 Animations Tian
- Assignment: two rigid balls in different weights, dropping and bouncing at the same time.
- Time: Approx. 2 hr to take pictures , 0.5 hr to do post production.
- Problems encountered: I spent such a long time in calculating each point during the falling down. I tried to let it be more accurate. But at last, I wondered that it is unnecessary. I also did a drawing sketch on the whiteboard. It also took a long time.
- Ah ha moment: I bought some plastic clay for this animation, so funny and interesting. It reminds me the childhood.
- If I animated this again I would: I wont do those calculation again, so heavy…
Drawing sketch. FrameByFrame.
Plastic Ball falling down. Camera shooting, post software: Premiere.
Week # 2 Poses Tian
- Assignment: Exhaustion Poses
- Approx. 0.5 hours to draw.
- Exhaustion – Falling down, sleeping, crying, losing one’s spirits, illness/sadness. It is hard to catch the emotional thing deep inside. So it is hard to represent those poses.
Week # 2 Drawing-Hands Tian
- Assignment: Hands
- Time: Approx. 0.5 hr to draw/ Approx. 0.5 hr to process (scan, compare, upload )
- What I Discovered In this Exercise: It is so difficult to draw hands, even more difficult than drawing heads. It looks quite easy, but hard to control the size and angle. Foreshortened figure is quite important in this drawing practice.
Week #2 Animation – Sandy Yoon
- 2 rigid bouncing balls, varying material
- Approx 1.5 hr to animate, 1 hr to process
- Problems
- again, knowing how many frames to make between keyframes
- Ah Ha
- using music to help keep a beat with animation
- If I animated this again I would:
- draw more frames, but this time to make a more exciting animation
- try to evoke the material differences more in drawings
Animation HW2 from sandy on Vimeo.
Week #2 Drawing – Sandy Yoon
- Hands
- Approx. 0.5 hr to draw / redraw, 0.5 hr to process ( scan, overlay, upload )
- What I Discovered In this Exercise
I find that using your own hand as a model helped, as well as thinking of the internal structure of hands, e.g. bones, muscles, etc. I also need to work on pinpointing angles and widths.
Week #2 Animation – Musen
- Assignment – animate two rigid balls of different weights dropping and bouncing at the same time.
- Time to Animate – Approx 1 hrs to animate , 30 mins to process and take pictures
- Problems encountered – To calculate the routes of two different balls.
- Ah ha moment – using play-doh to make two different weight balls.
- If I animated this again I would – I’d love to making a story that including two balls. I mean, the balls maybe treated as characters or roles
Week #2 Poses – Musen
EXHAUSTION
Approx. 15 mins to draw.
EXHAUSTION – tired, sadness, losing energy, headache, free style sleeping…etc.
Week#2 Drawing – Musen
- Assignment – draw hands
- Time to Draw – Approx. 10min to draw, 15min to compare with original sketch.
- What I Discovered In this Exercise – Drawing hands is more difficult than drawing heads. I always practice drawing hands and feet before my university.
Week #2 – Concept Review
If you want a bit of a concept refresher from this week’s class, download the PDF review of Newton’s Laws of Motion and check out the videos we watched in class as well as a few more:
Eureka! Episode: 1 Inertia
Things like to keep on doing what they are already doing. They don’t like to start moving or stop moving. They are lazy. Another word for laziness is… INERTIA.
Eureka! Episode 2: Mass
Big things aren’t always lazier than small things. It all depends on how much MASS they have. The more MASS the more the inertia.
Eureka! Episode 3: Speed
In order to make a thing change what it is doing, you have to use force, and force varies not only with mass, but also with change of SPEED.
Eureka! Episode 4: Acceleration Part 1
The greater the rate of change of speed, the greater the force required. Another word for rate of change of speed is ACCELERATION. The more you accelerate, the more force you need, but force varies with mass. So, we say that force = mass * acceleration
Animation Concepts 