Class 1 – Week 3 (Work In Progress)

"Planning and Blocking Methods"


In this session we've simply lernt how to plan a scene, what's a cliche, pros and cons of blocking methods etc...
For this week, we had 2 assignments to do. 
First one; pose of STU communicating EXCITEMENT. 
Second one; a simple bouncing ball animation.



Some ideas for the excited STU:

After I decided to choose "singing in the rain" pose, I saw this week's cover page of my favorite comics magazine...

What a coincidence! :)
Same week same topic... Anyway...


During my studies, I watched so many videos of Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra to take their movements as references. I'd love to share some of those amazing videos with you. Enjoy!

For the bouncing ball assignment, there are 2 things we have to pay attention:
Timing
Spacing


These two very important concepts are basically the building principle of "animation" and without an exception, every animator NEED TO know what they are .