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    Category: Animations

    • Expressive Faces

      With Expressive Faces, the goal was to get comfortable animating with sticky notes. It would also test our ability to draw the same character over an extended period of time.

    • Circle Boogie

      In November, we tackled the Circle Boogie. It was all about Morphing, as well as including Anticipation, Arcs of movement, and Follow Through. We could animate anything we wanted, the animation just had to start and end on a circle. Hence the name, Circle Boogie. I chose iconic items from comics. Mjölnir, the Infinity Gauntlet,…

    • Walk Cycles

      Next on the Docket for Principles of Animation, we covered Anticipation and Follow-Through. To help with this, we looked at and animated walk cycles. Our first attempt was extremely barebones, to make sure we had the basics down. The next attempt was more developed. It used our own characters and consisted of a full sixteen…

    • Flight of Fancy

      With Flights of Fancy, the world was our oyster. The assignment guidelines were to include one example of morphing, and at least three examples of the Principles of Animation we had been learning about. I chose to animate Kirby, as I thought he’d lend himself well to all of the above.

    • The Ball Bounce

      In my Intro to Animation class, one of our first animations was a classic: the Ball Bounce. It introduced us to the “Squash and Stretch” Principle of Animation.