Posts Tagged ‘bouncing ball’

Class 1 Week 7

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Since it was so important, we did even more overlapping action this week! This time using Tailor (the little ball with a tail) we had to animate the little guy jumping at least three times. So this would combine the squash and stretch bouncing ball of a few weeks ago with the overlapping pendulum action from last week! Let’s take a look at the initial idea sketches I did:

So, some rough thoughts about what poses might crop up and having a think about how the tail might react during a very standard jump. Here’s the actual plan itself:

Aaaaand the final animation:

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Class 1 Week 5

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Tough week this one! Squash and stretch bouncing ball as well a pose that demonstrates the emotion of ‘devastation’. Here are the two plans I did before starting to animate:

I went with the second plan – and here’s the final result!

Pretty happy with it, but there are a few areas that could be improved. I think I could probably tweak the path through the air and the hang time to infinity! Anyway, here are the ‘devastated’ sketches:

And the chosen pose using Stu:

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Class 1 Week 4

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

The brief for Class 1 Week 4 was to “create an animation with both a light ball and a heavy ball that bounce then come to a stop in the same shot.” Here’s the planning:

And the final animation:

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Class 1 Week 3

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Week 3. The very first animation of the term, the year, the course! Well, obviously not the very first animation I’ve done this year but you can see why this would be important! Our brief for this week: “to animate a bouncing ball with the weight and bounce of a basketball or football in under 100 frames using the side view only.” and “Pose Stu communicating excitement based upon one of your sketches”.

Let’s start with the animation then! Here’s some all-important video reference footage I shot in the office:

Here’s the planning:

Unfortunately the truth is often stranger than fiction and having followed the reference too closely Shaun thought there were too many bounces for a football. So here’s the revised animation based on his critique:

Right, onto the ‘Excitement’ pose then. Here are the sketches:

And here’s the final pose I did for the hand in:

I think there are some revisions I can make to this pose, but overall: a good week!

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