Digital Animation
Table of Content
Unit 1 Basic Shapes (Page 6-7)
Unit 2 Looping (Page 188-189)
Unit 3 Spray Brush (Page 42-43)
Unit 4 3D Position & View (Page 104-105)
Unit 1
Basic Shapes
Creating scenes through basic shapes
Created using circles and rectangles (not the hair though)
Through the first activity, I learned that basic shapes can be used to create complex images. The image above is created by the basic shape tools available in Flash. Only reactangles, circles and lines have been used to create the image. The tree was created using circle and rectangle while spider-man was created using circle and lines. While, the second image was created using circles and rectangles. This activity proves that you don't have to be really good at art in order to ctreate beautiful, complex imgaes.
Unit 2
Looping Background
Looping backrounds
Even object's can be tweened into perfect loops
The second activity teaches us that we do not have to create a really long, single background to make the character appear as if it is moving. The same can be achieved by stiching mutliple small backgournds together and then tweening it's motion. In order to make the animation even better, a sense of depth can be given by tweening the varoius objects at different speeds. Notice how the Coca-Cola© can is really fast while Mr. Obama is comparitively slow. Also, the skateboarder is stationary. The principle of animation, Follow Through is applied to his hair. This activity not only teaches us that looping can be really effective in giving a false sense of motion but also that many animation principles can be incorporated into a single animation.
Unit 3
Spray Brush Tool
In a galaxy far far away....
This activity teaches us that many textures (like the stars in the video above) can be drawn through the spray brush tool which saves us a lot of time. Drawing each star in the example above would have taken a lot of time if they were drawn using the brush tool. To make the aniation better, two layers of stars were added, each tweened at different speeds to give the animation some depth.
Unit 4
3D Position and View
'Zoom In, Dolly Out' effect
This activity teaches that a false sense of 3D positioning can be given to even a 2D animation. The basic idea behind this activity is to move the different layes of background at different speeds to make the animation look as if it is 3D. In order to movoe the backgrounds, I imported the animation and the bckround in Premier Pro and try to give the animation a 'Zoom In, Dolly Out' effect.
Winnipeg 2016
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