Where to begin...er....ah! Well I've just begun my Digital Animation course and the first peice of course work I was set was to animate a bouncy ball and a bowling ball falling and hitting the ground. You can check them out bellow.
Bouncing Ball
Bowling Ball
I'm happy with the fluidity of the "bouncing ball" and I think their is a good sence of weight, especially when the ball reaches the top of its ark but its far from perfect. For starters I think I may have over emphasized the quash and stretch and the result is it looks a bit more like it is actually jumping rather than bouncing. Still I can refer to this if I find I have to make something jump in the future. "Yay!"
When it came to doing the bowling ball I made the squash and stretch much more subtle as too much would have made the ball appear softer. Also, as it is so hevy, it's bounce is very shallow.
A Bit of Drawing
Each week I get the opotunity to select a drawing task and I chose one named Les Miserables. The idea of the task is to draw fellow students of my course and exadurate their mood. As their emotions would be emphasized I choose to draw them in a cartoony fashion. I found to acheive this I would have to capture their likeness. There are a couple of examples bellow.
One More Peice of Animation
As this blog was abit late I've also got another peice of animation to add. This would be of a little dude I have deemed Cubie making a wee jump. (So my bouncing*cough*jumping*cough* ball came in useful after all!)
This task was about incorportaing anticipation and overlap as well as squash and stretch. I think I managed to achive the anticipation though I feel that perhaps I made Cubie a little cumbersome and the animation may be that little bit rigid towards the end.
Anyway thats all for now foaks.
Thanks for reading.
Oh and feed back is greatly appreciated.
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