Bouncing Ball

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My bouncing ball sequence, it has some issues that I can now see (while posting this) and will go back into to correct.

Ball Path of Action

Dear God, what a cluster-fuck, more to come, hopefully...

Golf Swing

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Animated from a model study.

Incremental #1

The incremental drawings came naturally since I had done this before in Sajovic's figure drawing. I know this is essential in the study of animation in the real world and felt more "in tune" since I had studied the figure and tried to take as many figure drawing classes I could get my hands on. I hope we do more of these in the future; the static figure is not that fun.

Pendulum

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This assignment was a real eye opener in terms of how we interpret movement. I found certain, almost obvious, principles in movement of the object we perceive in the real world. I found that motion blur was almost/is the idea of stretch in animation, noticing that minutia in movement, for me, gives it an almost naturalistic movement.

Incremental Study #1

A study of Muybridge's cat locomotion, I added a few simple lines to show some sort of framework from this sequence.

Metamorphosis

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I jumped into the metamorphosis with a tabula rasa, I didn't wish to plan anything prior to animating the sequence. I did notice the importance for variance in the movement and flow of the subjects, whether that be "ease in/out" or some sort of stretch or bend. I have no prior experience in making animation as far as making a short or film, so I almost felt crazy when I saw the short, I kept thinking "...wow, I made this..." I did show my friend Justin, and all that I got was "...huh, that's cool..." The hardest task in the project, for me, was the transition between the meta- and the "local" sequences. I found that some sort of outline of the "local" was imperative to complete the transition without it looking too off or guessed. I think I'll study the Survival Book a few more times on timing and next time I'll vary my movements in more ways than one.