2D Animation Week 1

28/AUG/17 ,Week 1
Hanif Rashid (0333455)
2D Animation

Week 1

Lecture Notes

Lecture for today class is focusing about the fundamental of traditional 2D animation which is in animation there's a 12 basic principal of 2D animation. These 12 basic principal are the major key to create a successful lively animation.The 1st video that we have to watch is The Illusion of life.

The 12 basic principal are :

1. Squash and stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Pose-to-pose
5. Follow-through and overlapping.
6. Slow in and Slow out
7. Arcs
8. Secondary action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid drawings
12. Appeal

After that Mr. Hafiz tell us to watch a video called Duet by Glen Keane. Glean Keane is famously known as American animator and Illustrator. He's also a writer. His best known for his character animation at Walt Disney Animation Studios for feature films such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Tangled.

From this video is it clear that the 12 basic principal is been demonstrated trough out the video. Here are the 12 basic principal

Solid Drawings 0.25-0.30

Anticipation 0.48-0.52

Exaggeration 1.59-2.10

Appeal 2.41

Arch 2.16-2.20

Follow Trough & Overlapping 2.30-2.35

Slow in Slow out 0.48-0.52

Squash & Strech 0.48-0.53

Staging 1.30-1.40

Straight Ahead & Pose to pose 0.58-1.00

Appeal 2.41

Secondary Action 2.15

This is other reference that i found on Youtube to further my understanding to the 12 basic principle of 2D animation.

Instructions
For our 1st exercise, we were task to create a simple flip book animation using 3 idea which is breaking,rotate and bounce by using a small notebook of a sheet of paper.


Work Processes
I decide to used sneakers footwear as my main animated object. The sneakers that i used is Yeezy by Adidas.

Adidas' Yeezy Boost 350 in the 'Turtle Dove' colorway - the first of the 350 line to commercially release. Source

Currently, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 and 2015. Source

This footwear is famously for being overprice footwear and it's a hot trending fashion wear for the youngster. This footwear famous due to the collaboration with famous rapper Kanye West.

For my animated flip book idea is simply by the shoes bouncing from space to ground back to air, rotated and breaks into liquid. After turn into liquid the liquid bounce back to form a face which is turn out to be a face of the created of the Yeezy Boost, Kanye West.

Feedback
Mr. Hafiz commented on the buffering between frames. It's important to have buffering so that the animated looks smooth not choppy. Second comment is focusing on my space. I tend to used the space heavy on left side. He told me to play with the space more and balance out the main object and space. Overall Mr. Hafiz is happy with idea that i'm using from an object turn out to be a face. 

Reflections
It was a good exercise for a simple task. Give a overall idea how to plan and executed the idea for doing an traditional 2D animation.



Further Reading

source

Timing for Animation by Book by Harold Whitaker