Week 3

History and Theory

This weeks lesson was about early animation history. It was interesting finding out what influenced early animation such as slap stick, clowning, magic acts, song and dance acts and lightning cartoonists whose work i thought was really clever as you would try to guess what they were drawing but it turns out to be something different. We also looked at the industrialisation of animation and when studios started and how they competed with each other. We were also shown Duck Amuck by Chuck Jones which i really enjoyed as i found it really funny and i liked how Daffy Duck was telling the animator off.

In Screening we watched The Sandman and Peter and the Wolf. I liked both but felt they were a little frightening though i was more scared of the boy in peter and the wolf than the wolf (still can't believe the wolf ate the goose!!!! *tears well up*) I prefered the style of the sandman because i liked the camera angles used and how the rooms were crooked, and the colours used.

2D Animation

This week we had to make our cube character jump from one place to another across the page and add overlap.

This is my first atempt



This didn't work very well as i didn't add the overlap also when the character lands it should lean forwards first then lean backwards. The character looks very mechanical because it is very square so i need to add more curves to the characters movements so then it should flow better.



This is my second attempt and i think it worked better as the movement is more fluid and i added the overlap however i needed to add more anticipation to the beginning of the movement as he jumped to quickly. I think i needed to have added more to the landing and the character leaning forward as that is very quick as well. Also when the character leans back i think i should have made his arms spin more and he leaned back longer. I think the leaning back part worked better in the first attempt.

3D Animation

For this lesson we had to make a ball bounce across the screen again but this time we had to add squash and stretch.



I think the squash and stretch on this ball worked well however i dont think the path the ball bounces along is flowing enough as it looks more zig zagged than curved. I think the ball should slow down a bit more at the top of the bounces as well.

Life Drawing

In this lesson I found that i need to be a bit more experimental with the materials i use as i keep relying on pencil =/ I think that this will also make my drawings more interesting as well.