Flour Sack Animation

This task was to create a flour sack animation displaying some of the principles of animation:

1. Weight (leap/jump and land, falling off wrecking ball)
2. Arcs (wave)
3. Anticipation (wrecking ball and falling of flour sack nticipated to hit)
4. Emotion (fear at giant slide falling out of nowhere)
5. Appeal
6. Follow through and secondary animation
7. Staging (Wrecking ball and slide)
8. Slow in and slow out (wrecking ball)
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration (fear at giant slide falling out of nowhere)
11. Solid Drawing (Wave and leap/jump)
12. Squash and stretch (landing on ground and the jump/leap).

Weighted Balls

Cartoon Ball - Squash and Stretch

Bowling Ball
Heavy weight so falls quicker, has little bounce and rolls slowly.

Ping Pong Ball
Light weight so quickly bounces as soon as it hits the ground, takes a while before it stops bouncing.

Tennis Ball
Average weight, average bounce, no flexibility for squash and stretch.

12 Principles of Animation: Slow In + Slow Out and Timing

The purpose of this session was to see the difference between time and speed in animation.

Speed in animation all depends how the frames are spaced, at either end the frames are very very close together with tiny spacing between this makes the circle travel slowly. In the middle the frames are further apart, this makes the circle travel faster. This principle of animation is called 'Slow In and Slow Out'. This principle can be applied to things like a swing or a pendulum on a granddad clock.

Pendulum

Pendulum Frames as Onion Skins