Revision & Fishin’
Yet more animation exercises. First off, I decided to re-do my swoon assignment…took out the acting and just concentrated on the sway and fall (which *gasp!* was the assignment to begin with!)
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Much happier with how that came out. NEXT, our ‘overlapping action’ assignment. We were asked to either do a piece of seaweed on a rock that’s moving back and forth, or a pendulum rocking from side to side and coming to a rest. Well, I asked the prof if it’d be OK if I did someone throwing a fishing line to make it fun, and she agreed. 200 drawings later, here are the results:
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So many drawings because I drew the person, the fishing pole and the line all on their own separate layers….I did this so I could mess with the timing of each element individually, but then came to realize that, since they are all connected and moving at the same time, I had to have a drawing of all 3 for every frame (i.e. I couldn’t use the same drawing of the figure twice with two separate frames of the fishing line at the same time to make it look like it was moving faster.) This stunk because I ended up with 3 times as many drawings as I would have had if I’d just done them all on one layer, which isn’t terrible until you think about having to film each individual frame, so it took close to 20 minutes every time I wanted to test it. So. Annoying. …I am very happy with the outcome though, I think the little fisher dude is cute ^_^
Apart from Animation nonsense, going to see Where the Wild Things Are this evening. I am incredibly amped for this film, but I think it might just be cause I love the trailer so much….that Arcade Fire song never ceases to make me cry, and I totally tear up whenever I see the preview
Ahhhh, nostalgia.
I shall report back my thoughts. Other than that, not much to report really….life is Savannah is rather slow and uneventful, just me locked in the Animation lab for most of my conscious (and some unconscious) hours…
Xposted from Nate's fancy blog, A Progress in Work....