2D ANIMATION

STRUCTURE

Flip Books

In this task we need to create the flip books about the 12 basic principle of animation. Flip books is create by using quality paper and a series of drawing that will animate by motion when change rapidly. Flip Books is not easy or not difficult to be done for but when you try to do it according to the basic principle it feel difficult and I faces the difficulties in creating the arc and times and also the squash and stretch. I need to understand and series of drawing in others paper before creating the flip books. I create my flip book using a A4 papers and also the small notebooks, then i divides the A4 papers into 4 and the notebooks into 2 sections. After that I staples it on the upper sides or where I want it to be drawing. In creating flipbooks we also faces the difficulties, if not enough amount of paper, the flip books will not move smoothly and the motion will become bad. So to creat a smoothly flipbooks we need a thick amounts of paper. When drawing in the flipbooks we also faces difficulties in maintaining the sizes of our drawing, because after we finish our drawing and when the drawing become unstable the animate drawing will look weird and we need to create it again. I also learn to create the flipbooks by  looking and watching videos in youtube.

REFLECTIONS

by creating this flipbooks, I understand that creating an animation is difficult and not easy because we need to understand the concept and the basic that we learn to create a good animation that will attract the audience and also the smallest thing we done doesn't mean it easy to do.
                                                                        

2D ANIMATION

2D ANIMATION

Task: Movement

In this week we do some exercise or series of drawing that is for this task, such as:

1. Life Drawing
2. Fast Character Sketch
3. Fast Movie Sketch
4.Perspective

1.0 Life Drawing

In this task of drawing, we need to draw the action that our in front of us. We need to draw him or her in figure drawing and also drawing in one line. Doing the figure drawing is not very difficult for me because we already learn it in high school but when doing it really fat and in one single line to create the contour it make the exercise difficult. But after series of drawing my friends action I really had fun doing the fast drawing figure.

2.0 Fast Character Sketch

In this activity, we sit around the group and we need to draw the person that seated in front of us according to the time given. In the time given we need to draw and find something that represent our friends. This activity is fun and nerve wrecking because for example you need to to draw your friend in 5 minutes and you also need to find any symbol to represent them and for example, I draw Aisyah and her symbol is her shawl. Then we change around and the time also become more faster and we also need to draw how many line that been given on that time, for example we need to draw 10 line in 1 minute.

3.0 Perspective

In this activity, we learn about perspective. Perspective is a drawing that we make from one focus point we choose. I've done this in high school but now I need to really understand about the the focus point and where i want to put the focus point to create the perspective. I also faces difficulties of doing this activity because I didn't come to class because of three days sick leave so I learn about this task late than my friends but I try my best to understanding the concept of perspective and perspective is for simple because there not their but we are craetingthe focus point and the perspective.

2D ANIMATION

2D Animation

Storyline

Introduction

The story is about lives of electrical appliances that stay at a huge mansion and rarely use by the human there. Its change when the new rice cooker came (the main character) and his name is Ric. There he meets with Grandpa Cook, Miss Blen, and Mister Fridge (the supporting character). He then say that he cannot wait to serve his new owner. Then the electrical appliances told him the truth that their master rarely use the electrical appliance because they rarely didn’t eat at home.

Climax

Ric feel upset and ask why would the owner buy them if the household didn’t use the electrical appliance. Then his predecessor told him the reason and why the owner didn’t rarely use them anymore especially the rice cooker. Grandpa Cook also telling Ric about the differences of the city lifestyle and village where the in the city the family rarely eat together and cooking together but in the village the mother and daughter will prepare the food together and the feeling of family was in there. Miss Blen also telling Ric nowadays the fast food restaurant is everywhere. People can the food easy, fast, and affordable and the way they like to eat it. People also can get any type food they want in one place such as Italian, Mexican, Chinese and others. Ric feel that is unfairly toward the electrical appliances because there are made to be functional and not as the souvenir or for decorating the kitchen.

Ending/Conclusion

Ric then meet another that feel unfair toward their owner treatment that they want to protest they usage with the owner but Ric hold them up that they use another way to tell the owner that the electrical appliance want to be use and also the owner should to spend time with his family at home.

REFLECTION

Creating a storyline is not easy. You need to understand the main character and also the supporting character to develop the character to make it interesting. 

2D CHARACTERS

DESIGN THE CHARACTER

The Life of Young Rice Cooker and Friends

In this task, we were told to make a character for our stories and designing our own character based on our culture and history. In this task I design a character based on rice cooker that Malaysian has use in their daily life. This lead to creating the story of the life of the young rice cooker and his friends. The character is Ric (modern rice cooker), Grandpa Cook (traditional rice cooker), Miss Blen (blender or food processor) and wise Mr Fridge (refrigerator) living in the big house of their rich owner.

I choose this type of story because I want to show that even inanimate object like electrical ware has feeling and talking to each other about their master. So this is my plot of stories.

INTRODUCTION

It started on a certain big house and entering toward the house where a maid pull out new rice cooker from the box and place him next to the old rice cooker. The young rice cooker or known as Ric feel excited to start his work with other appliances at the kitchen and meeting his ancestor, Grandpa Cook. He also make a new friend with beautiful and friendly Miss Blen and wise looking Mr Fridge. During his stay there, he feel weird because he rarely been used by the maid and Mr Fridge told him that the their owner rarely eating lunch at the house and this is why Grandpa Cook service end. He also about variety of his predecessor and ancestor and their history in people life.

CLIMAX

In this part, young Ric learn about reason why their owner doesn't eat at home and he feel angry because he feel that if their rarely use them why they want to buy them. Miss Blen answer his question by telling him that maybe become some of accessories in the house. Grandpa Cook told Ric about his story when he was young, when people still eating with the family and strengthens theirs bond while eating and cooking together. Grandpa Cook also feel disappointed about the way modern people lifestyles nowadays when family just meet briefly. Ric thoughts that his owner must be taught to feel the important of bonding with family and eating together at home and not making the useful appliances like a decoration at home. So, he make a strategy with main switch to stop the electricity.


CLOSURE

Their owner feel the difficulties when the electricity was shut down in the house and they need to use Grandpa Cook to cook the rice and the owner dream about Ric threatening him to stop treatin them like a decoration item and try to eat at home to strengthens his bond with his family and take care about their health.

ENDING

The story end by the happy look of their owner eating with his family and a little quotes about eating together at home and that inanimate thing also has feeling even though they are made by human.

Picture 1

One of example of my storyboard, taken by Alexis using phone camera.

Picture 2

Storyboard example, taken by Alexis using phone camera.

Picture 3

Character of my story. From left to right. Ric, Grandpa Cook, Miss Blen and Mr Fridge. Taken by Alexis using phone camera.

Picture 4 and 5

Solid drawing and structure of one of my characters. Taken by Alexis using phone camera.

REFLECTION

During doing this task, I learn many difficulties about creating a character and making the story and fitting the character in my story but I learn about it slowly and try to understand the way of making animation in simplest way that I can know. 

IMAGING FOR NARRATIVE AND STORYBOARDS

12 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION

1)    Squash and stretch: Squash and stretch is when an object changes shape based on some sort of impact or movement. For example, when a hard rubber ball is thrown, it may hardly change shape, but when a softer ball is thrown, it may change shape depending on the force of the impact. Squash and stretch is used in animation to give it a more realistic feel. For example, if in an animation, a character is punched in the face, squash and stretch would be used to show the impact in the face, and it would show the impact on the hand too.

2)    Anticipation: Anticipation in animation is the same as anticipation in real life. When a character is going to kick a ball, the anticipation would be the character moving his foot back before kicking the ball. Another example is a character preparing to run by putting one foot behind its body, and getting lower to the ground. Anticipation is used in animation to give the viewer a better understanding of the action that is about to happen. For example, if there is an animation of baseball game being played, the anticipation for the batter would be to move the bat behind his head ready to swing. The anticipation of the pitcher would be to lift his leg up and get ready to throw the ball.

3)    Staging: Staging in animation is when you make an idea clear to the audience. The idea could be an action, a personality, an expression or a mood. The key point to staging is to make sure you catch the viewer’s eye and that they are draw towards the idea that is taking place. The animator must use different techniques to make sure the viewer is looking at the right place at the right time. This could be something as simple as moving the camera so that it focuses on the key event or idea taking place.

4)    Straight ahead action and pose to pose: These are two different approaches to the drawing process. The straight ahead action in hand drawn animation is when the animator starts at the first drawing in the scene and then draws frame after frame until they reach the end of the scene. The pose to pose action is when the animator carefully plans out the animation, and draws a sequence of poses. These are usually the starting pose, some poses in the middle, and the final pose. Then that artist, another artist, or a computer draws the inbetween frames. This is similar to key framing with computer graphics, but it must be changed slightly since the inbetweens may be too unpredictable.

5)    Follow through and overlapping action: Follow through is the end part of an action. For example, when throwing a ball, the hand continues to move after the ball is released. Overlapping is just starting the second action before the first action is finished. This keeps the viewer interested because there is no dead time between actions.

6)    Slow in and Slow out: The principles of slow in and slow out in animation is to make the animations look more realistic. This is as simple as a ball bouncing. The ball starts out stationary in your hand. Then when you let go it builds up speed until it hits the ground. Then it would come back up slightly slower than when it went down. Then when it reaches its maximum height it stops and repeats the process. Every time the ball hits the floor or its maximum height it loses speed, so the ball would eventually stop bouncing.

7)    Arcs: An arc is used for an action or movement. This could be moving your arm. You would have a key frame at the beginning and at the end of the movement. The arc is the action in between the two frames. This is usually used for characters but can also be used on objects.

8)    Secondary action: A secondary action is an action that comes from another action. Secondary actions are used to heighten interest in a scene, and to add a realistic complexity to the animation. If the secondary action becomes more interesting than the main action, then it is either the wrong choice for secondary action or it is staged wrong.

9)    Timing: Timing is an important principle because it gives meaning to a movement. Timing can affect how real a scene looks. Timing is used for characters feelings, and facial expressions. For example, if a character is shocked, you should be able to tell he is shocked because he should look shocked in his facial expressions right after the shocking event has occurred. If the characters shock was delayed, and the character didn't react until 5 or more seconds after the event, the scene would not be realistic, and you could lose the viewer’s interest.

10)  Exaggeration: Exaggeration is used in animation to help the audience know for certain how a character is feeling or acting. For example, if a character is angry in a scene, you could make him furious, with his eyebrows down, and gritting his teeth. A scene has components such as action, objects and emotion. Exaggerating all of these can create an uneasy and unrealistic scene, so finding a balance of exaggeration is important.

11)  Solid Drawing: Solid Drawing is used to make the main character or object stand out from the rest of the animation. This is so the character does not blend in to the background, and so that the character can easily stand out for the viewer. Solid Drawing is always drawn on its own layer so that it can be animated more easily.

12)  Appeal: Appeal in animation is the same as acting in a film. The way the character or object looks, moves and interacts with other characters has a large impact on the viewer and how much interest they have in the animation. Usually, the more realistic the character the more interest the viewer has.

This information taken from jordanwharton.wordpress.com/year-2/unit-67-3d-animation/12-principles-of-animation.

REFLECTION

From this information I learn new thing and revise back some of the basic principles in animation that I know and this help me to do the task and how to understand it function in making animation.