Well, its that time of the year again so lets start exploring the details of our final project. We have spent a lot of time over the past 3 months exploring the art of animation and it is time for you to showcase your talent and mastery of the principles of animation.
This week, we are going to look at all of the moving parts and peices of a run cycle. On the surface, animating a character running down the street seems like an impossible task, but focusing on the core poses will allow us to quickly flush out the overall movement. Remember, the core poses, or Key Frames, communicates the overall movment to the audience. Our animation will be a success if we can nail down the key poses of any animation. Lets jump in!
This week, we are going to continue our exploration of movement by focusing our efforts on all of the moving parts of a basic, human walk cycle. Through this discussion, we’ll learn about the importance of arcs, spacing and poses. Animating a walk cycle would be impossible if we don’t understand all the associated poses, so we are going to examine the key poses of the walk cycle first and focus on how to illustrate those in our animation.
This week we are going to explore the fundamental structure of moving an arm. Through this exploration, we’ll learn how to apply secondary motion by including the the illusion of “drag” on certain elements in the scene. Lets take a closer look at establishing the principle of Secondary Movement in our animations!
This week, we are going to explore our next Principle of Animation: Overlapping Action. With this principle in tow, our animations will illustrate the correct movements of soft bodied sections of our characters, like hats, dresses, hair, flabby skin and big bellies. In addition, Overlapping Actions allow us to communicate exaggerated movements more clearly.
This week, our exploration of the Principles of Animation continues by examining two specific ideas: Arcs and Timing. Through the study of arcs we will begin to shape the correct path of our movements and establish the proper range of movement for our object. The range of movement will change, from project to project, so this discussion will arm you with the questions you should be asking when presented a new animation to create.
This week, we are going to be exploring the Principles of Animation and begin studying the process of animating a moving object. Through our conversation, we’ll discover how the principles of animation should be applied to our movements and discuss the animation production pipeline. We’ll also discuss the importance of character, performance and storytelling and how to apply these ideas into the art of animation.
Welcome back to school and thank you for enrolling in GCOM 400- Principles of Animation. I have some really amazing things planned for this class and I know you are as excited to be in this class as I am excited to teach it. Lets jump in and take a look at what we are going to be covering today!