Advanced Animation- Exercises

24.09.2024 - 29.10.2024 (Week 1 - Week 6)
Kelly Lau Jie Ning/ 0354839
Advanced Animation/ Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
Exercises

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INSTRUCTION

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Exercise 1: Bouncing Ball Animation

For this exercise, we need to do 5 kinds of bouncing ball animation: soccer ball, ping pong, bowling ball, beach ball and squash and stretch ball.

Here are my references:

Soccer ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01cm7H1QoJg
Ping Pong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTsx5eW2eL
Bowling ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTz_5quG_ig
Beach ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74P1ejubEA

Soccer ball:

This is my first version of a soccer ball animation. However, after receiving the feedback I knew that the timing was incorrect. So I do Version 2 for the soccer ball.

The final video of the Soccer Ball

Pingpong ball:

I also do two versions for ping-pong balls because of the timing problem.

Here is the first version which is the wrong-timing version:

Here is the second version:

Bowling ball:

I also had the wrong timing for the first version of the bowling ball animation.

The second version of the bowling ball animation:

Beach Ball:

Beach ball only has one version because the timing is good.

Squash and Stretch ball:

Final Video

Exercise 2: Pendulum Animation
For this exercise, we need to do a pendulum swing animation.

First, try doing this exercise:

This one I did before sir teaching so it looks very weird and it is all wrong.

After I see the demo in class I make this:

For this version, when the pendulum wanted to stop it stuck too fast. It looked weird so I tried to adjust the last part to make it not so weird.

The final version of Pendulum Animation

Exercise 3:Emotion Pose

For this exercise, we need to download the rig first which is snow from https://studio.blender.org/characters/snow/v2/. Then we need to find references to 4 emotions which are happy, sad, angry, and scared. We need to do those emotional poses by using the rig.

I found the references from Pinterest.

Happy pose:

Angry pose:

Sad pose:

Scared pose:

Here are the draws of pose silhouette and pose study:

After the draws, I start to make the pose in the blender.

Final Submission

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Reflection

In these exercises, I am learning how to use Blender to create animations. This is my first time working with 3D animation, so I am discovering many basic concepts and tools. I have learned that timing is very important in animation, whether it is 2D or 3D. Good timing helps make the animation look smooth and realistic. I am practising different techniques and trying to understand how to make my animations better. Overall, I am enjoying the process and looking forward to improving my skills!