Animation Practice 1, The final hand-ins

Even though I planned to hand in on Monday the 6th, I ended up handing in 10 minutes before the deadline today.

The hardest thing about animation is to let it go since one can think that the animation still isn't good enough.
I am pretty satisfied with the result I have now finished but of course I can still see things that needs more work and that there is still room for improvement.

Even so, it is also nice to finally put the animations to the side as working more with them right now will probably drive me nuts (working for too long on the same piece of animation isn't exactly good for the mind)

With that said I now present to you the final versions of the different tasks from Animation Practice 1:

Animation Task 1: Bouncing Balls

I haven't really done much with this animation as I think it is satisfactory. I do realize that the small ball should have a bit less hang-time in the air, but after trying doing changes to both timing and spacing, I couldn't get any better result without having to start completely over and with the deadline it simply wasn't enough time for me to do that





Animation Task 2: The Pendulum

Here I have increased the speed of the animation a bit as it was kind of "underwater" like.
I also made the pendulum start swinging to the opposite side as the base slows down to full stop.





Animation Task 3: The Ball With a Tail

For this animation I have made very small changes. What I have done is to add some extra animation to the ball's body as the camera zooms out, making the ball look more excited than he did in the previous version.






Animation Task 4: The Thief

This task was about creating a walk cycle that has a stop in it. As I have described my idea earlier I will not go more into detail about that.

I have now worked more on the animation making the bag look more heavy, I have also smoothed out the animation the best I can.

Instead of laser beams I have now changed that with jail rails that fall down from the ceiling.




Task 5: Posing and Staging

For this task I have made the following poses:

I'm free
Waiting for news
What's in there?
Dancing to impress
How am I going to do this?
I'm angry with you

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Animation Task 6 and 7: The Lost Bucket

We were to choose one of the tasks but I combined them into one as I had a cool reference with a interesting scenario that I wanted to use.

I have now added more extremes and really tried my best to smooth out the animation, adding follow through and overlapping action where needed. There is still areas that definitely could use one more polish to smooth the animation even further but I'm out of time and it is about time I let go of this animation.





This now concludes Animation Practice 1
of course stay tuned to this blog as I will continue blogging here for the following modules. Next up, Animation Practice 2 :)