Unit 33: Task 1

Traditional Principles of Animation

1. Squash and stretch: This is when an object or living creature's shape is changed or deformed in a way to accentuate or exaggerate another action. An example of this would be when Wile E. Coyote falls off a cliff and gets squashed by a rock making his body become out of proportion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76vYQrT_5Xc

2. Anticipation: Is when you build up a situation, usually the audience knows something is going to happen but they're not always sure exactly when. An example of this is probably every Tom and Jerry episode because you always know something is going to go wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXoU32y-fU0

3. Exaggeration: This is just the exaggeration of an action or even of another principle to make something stand out or more noticeable, but the animator must be careful when choosing what to exaggerate, too little and it may stand out too much, but if a whole scene is exaggerated it would seem unrealistic. I found this clip of the same scene realistic and then exaggerated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9R4-JLYtsc

4. Weight: In an animation the weight of characters and objects should be properly displayed to add realism to a scene. For example a mouse would be very light footed, quick and not make a sound whereas an elephant would be heavy footed, slow and pounding. This Ice Age trailer shows a lot of different sized characters and movements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ai83PIk7s

5. Secondary Action: This is when another object or character if affected by the primary action, the secondary action is not as big, noticeable or important as the primary action it's just something that happens in sequence to the primary action, usually to add realism. If a large creature is walking and makes cracks in the floor the creature walking is the primary action and the cracks or dents in the ground would be the secondary action

Just some basic walk cycle stuff until I do something better.





I hope to animate this character with a similar walk to the above but probably with less of a slouch.

Hi Vito,

Try to add your character into the walk cycle. The top half of the body needs to move more, even if he is walking with his hands in his pockets his upper body would lean into the walk and his shoulders would rotate slightly. This would make him look less like he's slouching

The legs look funny try to fix the bends in the legs. But the character it self looks good.

I agree with Ste the legs look a bit off but other than that its an interesting walk cycle that is different to everybody elses ^^ Just try make the legs look more like they're taking steps and it'll be great ;D

The walk seems quite depressive, but the character appears more like he's out to kill.

Maybe you could lift his head up, as it'd be a good start.

Simple but it works really well

Really simple but nice Looks like he really is depressed.

looks ok but the legs need abit of work, and the needs to be a good weight transfer because atm he has a stiff back lol

I need to add colour but flash isn't letting me use the fill tool, i think it's something to do with the fact i used the pen tool but i'm not sure how i can fix this.
Any ideas?

Did you used multiple layers to draw it in flash?

If you have, merge them together.

if not, make sure you have snapping lines together available. Then reselect the ends and connect them.

A third option is to pick a bigger gap allowance in the fill tool.

It should be on the toolbar to the left when you are using it.

yeah you need to check there are no gaps in the lines you have drawn just zoom in real close and closs any gaps you see

his legs aint really working try making it more smooth