Animation Fundamentals - Exercises

31/03/20201 - 28/04/2021 /  Week 1 - Week 6  
Avery Ong Xuan Ting / 0344462
Animation Fundamentals / Bachelors in Design ( Hons ) in Creative Multimedia 

Exercises

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INSTRUCTION

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LECTURES

Week 1 / Assignment Briefing :

Week 2 / The 12 Principles of Animation :

Week 3 / Animation Fundamentals (Part 1) :

Week 4 / Animation Fundamentals (Part 2) :

Week 5 / Animation Fundamental (Part 3) :

Week 6 / Animation Fundamental (Part 4) :

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Exercise 1

Character Gestures based on Shapes ( Week 1 )

For the first exercise, we need to use the basic shapes created by lecturer as reference and create poses for characters based on these shapes.

fig. 1.0 ; basic shapes

Firstly, I started to sketch on a paper. My idea is to draw some cute dinosaurs and monsters using those shapes. 

fig. 1.1 ; sketch

After sketching, I was quite happy with my outcome. I continue to use black pen to draw the stroke to make it more clean. 

fig. 1.2 ; first outcome

Lecturer's Feedback :

The first round shape need to improvise a little bit because the body is bigger than its head. It did not emphasis the round shape enough. Other than that, overall was good !

After receiving feedback from lecturer, I redraw the first character and added some shadows for each characters. I send it to lecturer and she said it's very well done, I can resubmit already.

fig. 1.3 ; final outcome

Exercise 2

Bouncing Ball Animation ( Week 2 )

We are required to animate 2 types of Bouncing Ball exercises using Adobe Animate. 

- Linear Bouncing Ball

- Action Bouncing Ball

Submission format: 

- Adobe Animate work file (Video Ratio/Render Size Setting: 1280 x 720p, 25 Frames per second)

- MOV/MPEG4 file, as long as your Lecturer is able to view it.

fig. 2.0 ; linear bouncing ball (first outcome)

fig. 2.1 ; action bouncing ball (first outcome)

Lecturer's Feedback :

- The ball is accelerating upwards, down so it should be stretched. (linear)
- Change the net something else where the ball can enter nicely with no obstruction. (action)

- Check the stretch of the ball. (action)

- The arc wasn't correct. (action)

fig. 2.2 ; linear bouncing ball (final outcome)

fig. 2.3 ; action bouncing ball (final outcome)

Exercise 3

Character Turnaround ( Week 4 )

A character Turnaround is a 360-degree view model sheet that shows everything that an Animator

need to know about the character. We need to use the finalized character design to create a turnaround animation. However, the character turnaround should include:

1. Front

2. 3 Quarter Front

3. Side/Profile

4. 3 Quarter Back

5. Back

fig. 3.0 ; first outcome

Lecturer's Feedback :

Check the grid properly for each part. 

fig. 3.1 ; feedback

Draw Character Turnaround ( Week 5 )

Based on the feedback given last week, I created the grid and draw it in Adobe Animation using Pen Tool. To prevent previous problem will happens again, which is I didn't create symbol for each layers. I immediately create symbol for each layer after finalized it.

fig. 3.2 ; progression

Animate Character Turnaround ( Week 6 )

After I am good with all the drawing for each side, started to animate my character turnaround following the tutorial video last week. I found that after I had transform the 3 quarter front, it looks a little bit weird. However, this is my first outcome :

fig. 3.3 ; first outcome

Lecturer's Feedback :

Overall was good, check the line thickness with the skirt areas.

fig. 3.4 ; final outcome