Shoutbox

Here's what I've been working on at University since I started.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uw2YX0SFGUw

The Principles of Animation.

50 Short exercises to improve your learning, understanding and application of Stop-Motion Animation.

You may notice a familiar friend he died during filming, I saved the head though.

I still have a 20 second piece left to do before Monday, so there'll be another one up there soon I guess.

20 Second Piece http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8_XOvJFxU

Enjoy

wow nice work! I liked the last bit with the dog

hot ;o

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Originally posted by Discrate
wow nice work! I liked the last bit with the dog

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I filmed the dog one weeks ago.... and it's not last

Well done, pretty entertaining. You seem to have put a lot of work on this.

Wow, you did all those? Awesome indeed....

And is it just me or have your skills improved a lot?

You be the judge, I disabled frame blending too, so it's per frame, shouldn't be any blurring/much present I don't think. So in essence whatever is there, is whatever I filmed, rather than some smoothing by video editor

After about a week of 'getting back into it' as it'd been months since I'd last animated and learning how the uni armatures work best I think I improved greatly yes.

My favourites are Creeping, Tightrope walk and lifting a heavy weight.

I'll post a full list of requirements shortly

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

And is it just me or have your skills improved a lot?

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I agree, I thought the quality was a lot better, and I thought it was good before. Well Done

AM50029-1 Animation Principles Stop Motion Exercises List.

#1 TIMING

1.    Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 1’s.
2.    Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 2’s.
3.    Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 3’s.
4.    Repeat with perspective towards and away from camera.
5.    Block-Animate moving in a circle at constant speed looking down.
6.    Repeat from a low angle close to arc-perspective.


#2 EASE IN AND EASE OUT (FARING)

1.    Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 1’s.
2.    Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 2’s.
3.    Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 3’s.
4.    Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 1’s.
5.    Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 2’s.
6.    Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 3’s.
7.    Block-Animate into frame and stop, pause for 8 frames, start again and animate out of frame.
8.    Block-Create a winding course with faring on the bends.
9.    Block-Create a spring cycle (constant left/right motion) and loop on PVR.
10. Block-Create a pendulum swing and loop on PVR.
11. Armature-Head turn without faring on 1’s.
12. Armature-Head turn with faring on 1’s.
13. Armature-Waist-up turn with faring on 1’s.

#3 ARCS

1.    Armature-Head turn with faring in an over-the-eye line Arc.
2.    Armature-Head turn with faring in an under-the-eye line Arc.
3.    Armature-Waist-up turn with faring in an over-the-eye line Arc.
4.    Armature-Waist-up with faring in an under-the-eye line Arc.

#4 SQUASH AND STRETCH

1.    Clay Ball as Rubber Ball bounce.
2.    Clay Ball as Wood Ball bounce.
- Take 2 - Ball bounced across screen
3.    Clay Ball as China Ball – CRASH.
4.    Clay Ball as Water Droplet – SPLASH.
5.    Armature - Squash and stretch classic turn with Arcs.

#5 WEIGHT AND BALANCE

1.    Lifting light weight with the whole body.
2.    Lifting heavy weight with the whole body.
3.    Pushing light weight with the whole body.
4.    Pushing heavy weight with the whole body.
5.    Pulling light weight with the whole body.
6.    Pulling heavy weight with the whole body.
7.    Tightrope walk.

#6 FOLLOW THROUGH AND OVERLAPPING ACTION

1.    Walk – Normal
2.    Walk – Creep
3.    Walk – Double bounce
4.    Walk – Robot
5.    Run.
*EXTRA* Dog Walk

#7 ANTICIPATION

1.    Jump.
2.    Run.
3.    Double take.
4.    Duck.

#8 SECONDARY ACTION

1.    Walking and waving.

#9 EXAGERATION

1.    Laugh.
2.    Sneeze.

#10 BREAKING JOINTS

1.    Throwing a ball.

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Now you can check them off as the video progresses

Lol thats cool, nice job, you sure put a lot of effort into these.