Entry 2- Some Basics
Today we learnt more about Animation-ish. The last lesson, we were told that every animator learns how to draw and walk during college. I reckon that these two are the most important as they both show the ways of gravity in an x, y way.
The tools and techniques that we learnt today are, tracing, adding a keyframe, moving tool, resizing, behind tool and distance perspective. I learnt everything that we learnt today during Year 8 as well. The moving tools were still tricky, as I kept on moving the focal centre of the item, not the item itself. On the other hand, by using the moving tool, animators and I are allowed to create objects moving from different direction easily. For example, if you want something to come forth, you simply duplicated the frame as long as you want the animation to be, add a keyframe at the start of the animation and at the end, click the moving tool item at the start of the animation, drag the item upwards from the centre, make it smaller, go to the end of the keyframe, drag the item downwards from the centre and then make it larger. It's that simple. Animators from before the era of computers would have spent approximately an hour creating that simple 5 min tutorial. Amazing to think about.
We also learnt about background and foreground, which helps the animators to create a scenery without messing up the original picture.
The main goal for today was to draw a bouncing ball. This was supposed to be an easy task where the ball starts from the top, accelerates little by little, compresses when landing and then repeating the process in a smaller range of height. We were also given a reference photo on Blackboard. I started off with a face, not a circle, but a face to spice up my animation - near the top left corner of my frame. After that, I simply duplicated the frame by using the duplicate tool (not the duplicate tool that makes every layer similar when something happens to one of its layers), and then using the select tool to move it and deform it to look like the reference picture. This process was repeated until the ball bounced out of the frame. My animation, however, appeared as if the ball was shrinking every time it moved as if it were to move back and away. This was probably caused by my repeated use of deformation. I am planning to try the bouncing ball animation again in order to understand the laws of physics in animation.
At the start of this lesson, he told us about blogs not getting written and how nobody listens to him. Inspired by that, I decided to draw that exact scene. My first drawing came out looking ugly, as I whipped it up, but my second animation came out looking better than I thought. This is probably because of my time and effort spent on it. The tablet that I was given to draw my 2nd animation, however (Bamboo tablet), was different my tablet (Wacom Tablet) that I usually use at home. This was a bit of a challenge for me, as the change in everyday life affected my process in drawing. This, however, gave me an idea for my animation, as one person's death (the change) affected the other person's everyday process in life. Kind of like a butterfly effect. I might implement a butterfly before she jumps off the roof (maybe the title scene) to foreshadow the idea of my animation.
That's all I did for today.
Edit: I did the bouncing ball animation again, and have decided to import the bouncing ball template as the background, so that I don't make any mistakes. The result is a success.
The tools and techniques that we learnt today are, tracing, adding a keyframe, moving tool, resizing, behind tool and distance perspective. I learnt everything that we learnt today during Year 8 as well. The moving tools were still tricky, as I kept on moving the focal centre of the item, not the item itself. On the other hand, by using the moving tool, animators and I are allowed to create objects moving from different direction easily. For example, if you want something to come forth, you simply duplicated the frame as long as you want the animation to be, add a keyframe at the start of the animation and at the end, click the moving tool item at the start of the animation, drag the item upwards from the centre, make it smaller, go to the end of the keyframe, drag the item downwards from the centre and then make it larger. It's that simple. Animators from before the era of computers would have spent approximately an hour creating that simple 5 min tutorial. Amazing to think about.
We also learnt about background and foreground, which helps the animators to create a scenery without messing up the original picture.
The main goal for today was to draw a bouncing ball. This was supposed to be an easy task where the ball starts from the top, accelerates little by little, compresses when landing and then repeating the process in a smaller range of height. We were also given a reference photo on Blackboard. I started off with a face, not a circle, but a face to spice up my animation - near the top left corner of my frame. After that, I simply duplicated the frame by using the duplicate tool (not the duplicate tool that makes every layer similar when something happens to one of its layers), and then using the select tool to move it and deform it to look like the reference picture. This process was repeated until the ball bounced out of the frame. My animation, however, appeared as if the ball was shrinking every time it moved as if it were to move back and away. This was probably caused by my repeated use of deformation. I am planning to try the bouncing ball animation again in order to understand the laws of physics in animation.
At the start of this lesson, he told us about blogs not getting written and how nobody listens to him. Inspired by that, I decided to draw that exact scene. My first drawing came out looking ugly, as I whipped it up, but my second animation came out looking better than I thought. This is probably because of my time and effort spent on it. The tablet that I was given to draw my 2nd animation, however (Bamboo tablet), was different my tablet (Wacom Tablet) that I usually use at home. This was a bit of a challenge for me, as the change in everyday life affected my process in drawing. This, however, gave me an idea for my animation, as one person's death (the change) affected the other person's everyday process in life. Kind of like a butterfly effect. I might implement a butterfly before she jumps off the roof (maybe the title scene) to foreshadow the idea of my animation.
That's all I did for today.
Edit: I did the bouncing ball animation again, and have decided to import the bouncing ball template as the background, so that I don't make any mistakes. The result is a success.
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