#principlesofanimation

another animation principle is follow through which is similar to overlapping action which are also associated with another technique called drag but they are all described the same thing but in different ways. Follow through refers to the same parts of the body that continue to move after the body has stopped. For example, a character that jumps needs to follow through with their landing and if a character has extra skin, it can be treated as a separate entity with drag and follow through. Arms are also a good place to use follow through and overlapping action.

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best-known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed made in 1926. The first feature-length animation film and Papageno 1935. She studied at Charlottenburger Waldschule which was the first open-air school where she learned the German art of silhouette inspired by the Chinese art of paper cutting and silhouette puppetry. In 1918 she animated wooden rats and created the animated intertitles for Wegener's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. This got her admitted into Institute for Cultural Research, an experimental animation and short-film studio. She made six short films over the few years, and they were all produced by her husband. Working with a crew of five people, Reiniger made her silhouettes by hand photographing the animation frame by frame in a friend's garage. The process took her 5 years to complete.

 Brief 

A 2-3 second animation in your own chosen style and reflecting your specialism about the ideal 13th principle of animation as an individual, then collaborate with your team

what are the 12 principles of animation?

 they are a set of guide lines to creating and building stories between character and setting. An art form in motion brought to life.

What could be the 13th principle? 

through the lecture they gave us few ideal topics from the quotes of well know film and animation professionals, which could be a principle prompt word . 

flour sack test 1; 1st October

this my experiment and first testing a flour sack jumping in action on F12 paper in 2D principles. Shot in 2 frames per second on a 25 frame rate. 

30th September: research and continue to practicing with bouncing ball

following off from the bouncing ball animation test on tv paint for the first time, I began to research into more depth with structure of the ball and their bounces and how it carries out a movement depending its mass ,speed and direction. This based on mechanical propulsion, Where an object is examined by force act, centre of mass and what happens when opposite forces collide. 

Tutorial Exercise

First test into After Effects with a tutorial was not too hard to get into. I found it really interesting for camera movements and importing frames of an animation into the frame without no issues.

Composition Screenshot

When creating a screenshot of what appears to be from an animation I used my own to simulate it was taken from the 1 minute short. This involved me drawing both the background and character in shot on separate layers. These layers were put into Affect Effects were I then added shadows and highlights into the background and character before then blurring the background to put the character into a focused perspective.