BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 8: Final

Dynamics is fundamental to understand about movement and how to create life and personality in animation. When animating in Dragonframe my animations had some inconsistency between the frames however, I think the quality of them has increased. I fell that I didn't had a lot of problems fulfilling the tasks that were asked.

I was confused about what we should submit to assessment and that made me feel a little behind schedule, I just wanted to make the three animations the fastest as possible. But overall both walking cycles are good and consistent, despite that in the disappointed walking cycle I had some problems with the movement and position of the arms in the beginning. 

I decided to make the worm being squashed because it looked funnier to make, watch and exaggerate. So I looked for videos of a worm crawling so that I could observe their movement. I also wanted to exaggerate the squash and explosion but in a way that we could actually see the the body of the worm blowing and see what comes out so I did the squash slower. 

I think my performance was good, however I have to improve my research on the blog because I didn't research a lot, but I am excited to start the next project.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 7

At this point I am working in the three animations that we have to do. I decided to do it digitally so that I could try to make them more consistent.I am almost finishing all animations and I fell that I moving in a good  rhythm. I had some problems with the arms of the disappointed walking cycle but despite that everything went well.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 6

This week I was very confused with what should we deliver to assessment, but after receiving a file that explained everything I started organising myself and the time I had. However, I felt that I was a little behind schedule but after I started working I felt that I was advancing in a good rhythm and things were getting better. One of the things that I have to improve is my blog, I need to add more research because it is very poor in that aspect.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 5

This week we had the chance to start working in TVPaint where we did some walking cycles. It is very cool and different from what I am used to, but it is a very good tool. In the beginning I had some problems to follow Robin, but soon my brain and hand got more comfortable using the program and then it started to get easier. I am really enthusiastic with that tool and I look forward to use TVPaint again.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 4

This week we focused on making a jump were we had to apply the principles of follow trough and anticipation, which are very important to make an animation more believable. In the overall I am happy with the result despite some issues in the second animation. The last animation was good but I think the person moves a little bit to fast when it is in the air.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 3

This week in Dynamics we focused on making a walking cycle using the technique animation by extremes. It was very exciting to make the character walk despite the fact that the technique we used more organisation from us. The result was really fun because my character bounced the shoulders a lot when walking. I really look forward to next week, to see what is the next step.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 2

This week was very productive and interesting, we did animations about bouncing balls to helps us understand the timing and spacing which are fundamental to make an animation believable. Despite the fact that I had some trouble doing the heavy ball, the others went well, without big problems. In the last animations, where we had to add ears, a tail or both, I felt excited because now we are starting to progress, adding a secondary action, one of the principals of animation.

BA1a: Dynamic Animation | Week 1

This week was very interesting and exciting, we received more information about our projects and we started working in Dynamics on some basic and important animations that help us understand movement. I am happy with the results of the experiments and animations we did in this week despite some inconsistency between the frames in some of them.