Unit 33 - Task 2 Update

Unit 33: Task 1

Traditional Principles of Animation

1. Anticipation

A part in the animation in which the audience will anticipate what will happen next, due to the current situation on screen.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14T5wzicqw when bugs bunny turns the gun at him again and says rabbit season he confuses daffy duck and then we anticipate he gets shot.

2. Exaggeration

An action in which over gestures a particular action or a result of an action appearing in the cartoon, to get the point the across.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gItNmJ2rBy0 the action spike makes after being hit by the bat.

3. Squash And Stretch

An unrealistic action which causes massive porpotionly errors to emphasise the point on the reaction or the result of the action.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBL0iICws9w&feature=related after wilie e coyote releases the anvil from the balloon we see this motion, also when he first starts his jet motor and then his fall.

4. Staging

A particular angle in which you can clearly see all actions on the particular scene.

E.g the actions which will be affecting the scene, conversations, background characters, so making sure the viewer can see everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8u-nbRNIfQ&feature=related the way you can see the crowd escaping from the tasmanian devil, at that angle.

5. Weight

Weight gives a presence to character on screen and gives it a persona and more meaning depending on the weight, for example a elephant is a very large and heavy animal so its movement would be very heavy in comparsion to a cat; which would be alot more light footed, silent and nimble; this makes the characters more believeable and more realistic, than for example an elephant tip toeing and being very agile that would not be very realistic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnT2uAyG9oE the animals move in a different sense according to there weight, the moose is heavy footed, where as the monkey is light footed.

I have a rough layout for my walk squence for my dragon (well my feline dragon)



so these are my first few key stages i have just done the body





these are just rough ideas at the moment to see how it would look, i decided to leave the head and tail out for this as im trying to get the legs moving and working properly first before i add any extra details eg. head, horns, wings, tail and scales on my dragon.

still having trouble getting it to look right but this is wat i have thus far (its terrible lol) i used movie maker and i had it at each frame comes in every 0.48 seconds and it looks ok and then on photobucket its like every second so i dont know wat has happened there xD, edit now have fixed it but also posting up one with each key per 0.24 not sure which one looks better lol

The development is looking good up to now paul! I like your idea of choosing a 4 legged creature for the walk cycle.

I would also so the first video worked better, which is the slower version, the fast 1 looks too quick and weird lol

ive got to grips now with my walk cycle in a stick version ans this is how it looks so far

he looks drunk
try fixing his ass!

Love the fact you've taken the challenge of FOUR legs.

Keep it up, 'cos I can't wait to see the finished product.

It's alright.

It does look a little wonky, and the leg kick id quite obvious, but other than that...

Maybe you should animate each pair of legs individualy and then put them all together.

That might make it easier.

great idea for braking the mold, doing 4 legs while everyone else does 2

looks great, cant wait to see finished

I wanna see the full animation, muscles and everything! It looks promising though, keep it up Paul ^^

Yeh, looking forward to seeing the final version, looking promising though!

Very promising, cant wait to see the final product. It looks like he is digginf he ground but I guess you already know that.

Awesome Work mate, would love to see that thing move

This looks like it was annoying to do, however, pretty sure it was worth it
Can't wait to see it finnished.

The problem with the back legs is that it takes less frames to pass for the background leg to be lifted up, moved forwards and placed down again. it also moves more in comparison to the other legs during those few frames.
I think the difference is about one frame, but it's very noticeable.

Fix that and you'll be well on the road to Sortedville.

This is my run cycle so far , just need to add bits and shape things to make it look dragon



please tell me wat ya think

thats actually really good paul!

maybe just a little bit of tweaking on the last frame so its a smooth constant animation, but other than that looking forward to seeing this dragon!

that's looking fantastic, stick a rectangle for its head first before you add any detail to make sure it works and you can animate it well.

thats amazing, you need to get it done asap though

Finished , i know he doesnt have wings, scales or claws i tried it so many times to get it to work but i got stressed out so i made it easier yet still showing the walk cycle (well run cycle in my case )



Please let me know what you think?

P.S its a feline dragon =P

Distinction? very smooth and good, well done. Perhaps you scould improve the tail, make it smaller....

thanks alot ozan , the tail is supposed to be thick and heavy so it doesnt really move much but yes it needs tweaking abit lol

yeh the cycle looks great, but the head and tail look a bit static compared to the movment of the body.
The base of the tail works fine it's the end of the tail thats the problem, so far it has no rythym to it, you should go for a simple sway up and down at the end, also the head should point up and down more and in an opposite motion to the tail.

really like the bod movement but you need to make the head an tail move more realistic . so it goes with the rest of it