ANIMATION FUNDAMENTALS EXERCISES

14|04|2020(week 1-)
Ating Melvin Otobong Abang(0333700)
Animation Fundamentals 
Exercises 

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INSTRUCTIONS

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LECTURES
14/04/2020|Week 01
Lecture 01:Module Briefing  

Today was the first day we got to meet Mr. Faizal our animation lecturer and he gave us a youtube video to watch on the 12 principles of animation in order for us to understand and utilize later on in our module. 

21/04/2020|Week 02
Lecture 02:Model Sheet

Today we had a series of Videos on model sheets which is to ensure that the proportions of a character remain consistent, which also entails things like the height of the character and also used for comparing different poses and angles of the character. 

24/04/2020|Week 02

Lecture 03: Adobe Animate

We got to try out Adobe animate for the first time and it felt very weird at first but the interface seemed like a blend of illustrator and flash and Mr. Faizal commented saying that within animation we are the ones responsible for the movement and animation of parts of the character if we choose. 

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EXERCISES
Exercise 1:Character shapes
Week 1 (13|04|20)
We were required to draw 6 characters from shapes and we could use photoshop so we did and Mr.Faizal also advised us to keep it simple.

here are my drawings. 

Fig 1.1 My 6 shapes characters. 

Exercise 2:Animation video report
Week 1 (17|04|20)

We were tasked to make a report about the 12 principles of Animation and also give 5 the links of our favorite animations. 

here is the pdf file 

Exercise 3:Character Turnaround
Week 2(21|04|20)
We were instructed to watch the videos by Mr.Faizal on creating a character model. And we are to choose 1 character that we did last week to include in or character Model Sheet.

Here is my Character Turn around.

Fig 1.2 Character turnaround 

and then i proceeded to do the poses for the same square character.

Fig 1.3 Character poses 

Exercise 4: Adobe Animate Character design
Week 2(24|04|20)

Based on last week's exercises, we needed to design 6 characters from basic shapes by using adobe Flash / animate.
Here are my characters 

Fig 1.4 Square Character design 

Character Design Redone

I wanted to redo the character i had so i decided to redo it based on feedback given and i wasn't satisfied 

Exercise 4:Adobe Animate Character Turn Around

Week 3(28|04|20)

This week we were to create the character turn around in Adobe Animate for any of our character design i chose to continue with my square character. 

here are the final pieces.

Fig 1.5 Character turn around still images.

and here is the 360 turn around

Fig 1.6 character turn around gif

 

Week 3(1|05|20)

No Exercise Due to public holiday

Exercise 5:Character Background and Bouncing ball animation.

Week 4(5|05|20)

2 exercises this week first make a sketch of 2 backgrounds then finalize for our character, and then animate 3 bouncing balls all done in Adobe Animate. 

here are my background sketches. 

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FEEDBACK
Week 1 (13|04|20)

No feedback was given

Week 2(24|04|20)

Try playing around with the Colours and also use complementary colors like red and green experiment with different poses

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REFLECTION

EXPERIENCES
Week 1(13|04|20)
Going into this new semester with all the online classes going on felt weird but we can't do anything about it. The class was smooth and I was excited to get started on the semester and see the different things we would be doing and what this module was really about.


Week 2(20|04|20)

OBSERVATIONS

Week 1(13|04|20) 

we got to meet Mr.Faizal for the first time and the session went really well.

Week 2(20|04|20)

FINDINGS

Week 1(13|04|20)

For the first exercise, it was interesting, yes but the analysis was hard because the movie i chose had various common themes so i had to analyze properly. 

Week 2(20|04|20)

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