Ben Riley Week 7 Animation
1. Assignment: An animation which includes something we feel we need to work on- in my case, animating an on-model character.
2. Approximately 2 hours, 45 minutes to animate.
3. Problems: Even though I had a very simple character design, it was still more complicated than anything else I’ve animated– balls, pendulums, balls with squirrel tails, etc. I did a better job keeping her on model than I did with the squirrel ball, but she still fluctuates a bit in size in proportions. Flash was also very testy about exporting this properly, but I got it in the end.
4. Ah ha: Watching the animation, and seeing that I’d actually managed to convey a character with at least some sense of weight and motion, and not just a moving, fluctuating blobby thing like I was afraid I’d get.
5. If I could animate this again: I would have worked more on the last part, with the spaceship. The idea would come across better if the ship moved slower, hovering rather than zipping around.
6. REFLECT: While my character design was still basically just a ball with an eye and very simple hair, a trapezoid, and two little stubby feet, it was still more involved than any other element I’ve animated so far. I can see plenty of problems, but I feel like this was a real step forward for me.
Week #7 Animation – Dinosaurs Fight by Musen
music from A View to a Kill by Duran Duran
Week #7 Poses – Sandy Yoon
Poses HW7
Week #7 Animation – Sandy Yoon
- 5 sec animation
- Approx 4 hrs to animate
- Problems
- Getting used to using my brand new tablet. Harder than I expected!
- Ah Ha
- It was helpful to read the music using premiere, and matching the action to the exact frames.
- If I animated this again I would:
- Exaggerate the characters’ actions even more.
- REFLECT: What worked? What didn’t? What would you change next time?
- The music once again really drove the narrative of this animation. I specifically chose a pre-made short clip that was very mysterious and easy to interpret.
Storyboard HW7
Animation HW7 from sandy on Vimeo.
Week #7: Animation Pavarotti Continued
- Time: 6 hrs
- Problems: The mouths didn’t match the lyrics even though I know Italian, I didn’t really know how to reflect the proper enunciation for each “ee” “ooo” and “aaaaa”. That was really hard. It would feel a lot more fluid.
- Ah Ha: I discovered Premiere is better for this than Flash.
- If I animated this again I would: I need a proper sit down to go through the time sheet again. Pay more attention with the mouth movements when shooting.
- REFLECT: I had a great time animating the first half of this the first time, but as I got really into the chorus, I didn’t imagine I would have this much problems. This was really hard, I think I bit off more than I could chew. Also I just dove into Premiere without having used this program in depth before.
Animation Concepts 