BA Animation

Flour sack animation with background!!! ITS DONE!!! I know that there are still some small things that I could have changed but given the deadline and the fact I did a whole nother version for clean up, I’ve decided not to make anymore alterations, I think this mystery brief has been super fun and I’ve really enjoyed looking at the techniques used to make a flour sack move.

My fully updated, cleaned up and coloured new flour sack animation, I have not put the background in yet as i’m going to do it last, but I think it will really pull everything together.

The phone is done, I wont lie this one was a pain in my ass to do, but now that it’s done I’m quite happy with it.

Fully finished background for my flour sack animation, I was very confused about the rules and honestly I’m not the biggest fan of it but with a completed animation of top I don’t think it will look as bad

Reference photos for my flour sack background, a grassy area, which is the terrain in which it will take place, and a night sky, since in the game hostile mobs only spawn at night.

After spending under an hour animating a brand new flour sack, I was given feedback by an unknown member of my class in order to improve my animation. The feedback I was given was helpful and pointed out things I originally didn’t notice, and some of these notes may carry through into my final flour sack animation and will be helpful overall. As mean as I felt giving criticism, I think this was quite fun, and I hope we can use it again to help better my work in the future.

New version of my walk cycle, beginning to be coloured and now has a connected cape, which has been fixed with the help of the wave animation experiments in class with Dan from my last post

Experimenting with wave animations with Dan in class, we have looked at more effective ways to make a wave animation look a bit better, I will be using this on my cap animation

THE CHAIR IS DONE!!! Honestly has been quite difficult but having been trying to make the most of the experience, I am going to try and get the phone done soon but I will prioritize my essay and some of the 2D work I want to clean up first

“Technology is the frind of the traditional animation. It doesnt have to replace it. It can help you do it.” -Tomm Moore

After a million technical issues and a near nervous breakdown later, THE CHAIR IS COMING ALONG!!! Honestly I don’t think I’m going to get around to finishing the final scene but I am going to do my best to complete the phone.

Quick random excercise at the beginning of class, practicing more bouncing balls :)

most recently updated version of my flour sack animation, I will soon be working on the background and a more cleaned up version since I’ve been given feedback and the rules for the backgrounds. I look forward to finishing it

@ mitchleeuwe on Instagram drew some examples of flour sack poses and uses examples of how to turn them into characters based on shapes. He has a book for character design I’m considering buying since he explains character designs, shapes, expressions etc very well. His page is full of examples and explanations of how to make improvements to make aspects of character design in terms of animation, I recommend everyone take a look.

This gif of the carpet from ‘Aladdin’s movement is very similar to that of the flour sack, its shape and corner tassels being used as ‘hands and feet’ are good references for my flour sacks movement. it’s exaggerated expressions and large twists and turns are the kind of thing I would like to show in my own animation, although it may be harder since the flour sack needs more realistic weight distribution since it’s full, and may change shape depending on the way it moves, whilst the carpet is flat and more dynamic.

Was having issues drawing the cape, making the fabric move, so decided to animate a little ghost as another practice for fabric animations

Dynamic drawing class with Dan K :)