Thursday, February 12, 2015

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Space Crows = Coolest Crows.


My first Photoshop


Baby Duck Photoshop

I chose Paperman, which is a disney short, because it shows Exaggeration,solid drawing, and staging




my first photoshop


Nic and Wolf Photshop


not my first photoshop rodeo


First Photosho Thingamabob

Principles of animation

Staging
Although this trailer shows features of all the principles, I want to focus on staging. Staging, is when an animation, is showing a conflict or event, but is also showing the background.

Arcs
This shows a great representation of arcs. Arcs is when a motion or movement is arched.

Appeal
Appeal is everything in animation. Appeal shows a figures mood by how his or her's body is shown.

3 out of 12 Animation Principles - Stretch and Squash, Arcs, and Exaggeration

Squash and Stretch


 Squash and Stretch is one of the principles used in animation to show that an object is pliable. It can be used to exaggerate some actions, like Flynn's face when he gets punched by his own fist because of Rapunzel who uses her hair to make him hit himself. Squash and Stretch is supposed to show that an object is supposed to be made from a soft material to give us the illusion that instead of a flat image there is something there. 

Arcs

Motorcity was a Disney TV show that had some great examples of the arcs. The arcs are mainly a principle for animation to have things move realistically, for nothing exactly moves in a straight line. The characters turn their head often in the clip, which shows how the arcs work because their head is is usually following an imaginary curved line instead of an imaginary straight line. 

Exaggeration

Tom and Jerry are a great example for exaggeration, for each episode usually has something happening that nearly seems impossible in real life. It's mainly to add some appeal to a scene, giving it a comical look to it. 

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Principles of Animation

Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose:


These are the two different techniques you can use to create movement in an animation. The first one you have on the animation is Straight Ahead: all the images are created and if you play them fast you see a movement. The other one is Pose to Pose, you choose the key moments of the movement that you draw. You link them together after to create the movement.

Exaggeration:


Exaggeration is used to add more appeal to a situation. It can be used to created a more cartoony movement or if it's a rather real cartoon, it can make an effort clearer to see. In both situations, you want some degree so that it's not too odd.

Follow Through and Overlapping Action:

Follow through basically says that some parts of the body keep on moving even after the character stopped moving. Overlapping is about the fact that separate parts of the body will move at different times. Since in real life, every part of the body moves at different moments and speeds so these things make movements more realistic.



12 Principles Example




Principle 9: Appeal
The main character is very simple: A stick figure. This allows the audience to project whatever image they want onto it. It is also a bright orange, making it stand out. The main stick figure also has a hollow head, which differentiates it from many of the other stick figures. All of the characters find a way to be expressive without faces or voices by using the most minimal body language possible.

Principle 10: Straight Ahead.
At the beginning of the animation, you can see that the animator is animating frame by frame. He is not doing pose-by-pose, but instead drawing each frame of the character as he goes along.

Principle 12: Staging
The animator begins with an "animator view", where we see the hands of the animator working, and the figures are static, but when the animator leaves and the focus shifts to the stick figure, the camera focuses on the computer screen, especially in the area specifically surrounding the stick figure, giving us the perspective of the stick figure. The staging becomes particularly important as the setting changes.
I chose The Frozen Clip ''That Happened" because it shows Exaggeration at its finest. Exaggeration is used to push movements further to add more appeal to the action like this clip shows. Plus if it's realistic you can push it more to be turned fun.



For this Principle I chose the Avatar trailer because it shows appeal. Appeal helps the audience relate to the character and the way the character looks makes the audience who is watching it get interested in it more.

This scene is from twilight which is showing secondary action. Secondary Action is when say There's two people talking like in this part where Bella is talking to Jacob that's the main action and the Secondary action would be if that character might be doing something that involves moving. So this scene shows Bella talking to Jacob and then she moves with her body that makes it an Secondary Action.

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READ THIS ...


http://blog.digitaltutors.com/understanding-12-principles-animation/


Find a great examples of  three of the principles on YouTube and post it too the blog with a brief description of the principle.

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