Animation Fundamentals : Final Project

3/11/2024 -  22/12/2024 (Week 9 - Week 14)

Yang Jiayi / 0369288 
Animation Fundamentals/Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Final Project：PHYSICAL ACTION SEQUENCE ANIMATION

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Instructions

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Animation Process

Our final assignment is to create a 5 to 10 second animated body movement sequence based on the previously completed character.

fig1.1 Character creation

Before we start production, we need to make a storyboard so that we can roughly understand and sort out our ideas in post-production.

I want to create a feeling where the character is squeezed into a bus and is shaken back and forth.

fig1.2 Follow through

The fifth rule of the 12 rules of animation in the lecture that my teacher released before,Follow through refers to the way the rest of the body reacts after it stops. I looked back at the teacher's previous video, which said that when the main body moves, the tip of the appendage should be the last to follow, and when the body stops, the tip should follow the farthest point and then tilt back.

Before we start coloring, we need to make a rough draft to prepare for the later stage. I used the pen tool to roughly draw the position of the protagonist and the crowd. In the first photo, I did not make the front and back relationship, but only roughly depicted the position relationship of the characters.

fig1.3 draft

Next, I drew the characters and also worked out the front and back positions.Adjusted the scene elements and improved some details, such as swapping positions and the position of the character's footsteps

fig1.4 draft

Next, I sketched the scene. I used the most basic geometric shapes to represent the background. Houses were represented by rectangles or squares, and trees were represented by circles. I focused on building the overall structure and determining the basic positions and proportions of the background elements, laying the foundation for later refinement.

fig1.5 draft

Then I refined the scene, using the thickness of the lines to highlight the bus, adjusting the positions of the lamp posts and street elements, and ensuring the perspective and sense of space of the scene were coordinated and unified.

fig1.6

So I also used this when I made the bus brakes.

fig1.3 bus brakes

In the first 14 frames, I created a scene where the bus moves forward at a constant speed. By creating an interpolated animation, the character will move slightly back and forth.

fig1.4 bus brakes

    

fig1.5 bus brakes

Due to human inertia, when the bus brakes, people will move forward.

fig1.6 bus brakes

fig1.7 bus brakes

fig1.8 bus brakes

Next, I will draw the scene. I want to draw the scene of the bus braking. The bus braking needs to have distortion, and the body will tilt forward. In the original production process, I found that the state of the bus braking was not reflected. I searched for information online and made references. The surface of the bus can present a wavy shape, which can show the state of emergency braking. I added a few frames in the later stage to make the whole process look smoother.

fig1.9 brake

fig2.0 brake

fig2.1 brake

fig2.2 brake

After the last car stopped, the car model also changed.

fig2.3 brake

fig2.4 brake

After finishing in an, we need post dubbing. I searched for sounds online. To make the sound effects better, I added fade-in and fade-out.

fig2.5 au production process

Final Submission

Google Link：https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IR_gaArpVcAa28t_Xa8eMDul2p3xs21i

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Reflection

For me, the production process is very difficult. As for hand-drawing, I am not very comfortable with computer drawing. I am not used to it yet. I want to make it more perfect. I have better ideas in my mind, but my skills have not reached the level I like. However, I like to apply what I have learned to my homework, and it is very interesting to apply the learned principles to my own practice. Overall, it is very fulfilling to watch the homework being completed bit by bit. I hope that I can arrange my time reasonably in the next semester to complete the homework better, and I hope that my skills can be more mature.

Looking back on this involvement, I realize the significance of overseeing my time way better. Following semester, I trust to apportion my time more viably to guarantee that I can total my assignments to a better standard. In expansion, I have distant better;a much better;a higher;a stronger;an improved">an improved idea in my intellect this semester, but my abilities are not great sufficient to total the leading thoughts in my intellect. The another objective is to center on progressing my aptitudes so that I can more precisely put the thoughts in my intellect into hone. I see forward to sharpening my capacities and trust that I will make superior advance when examining progressed activity. Eventually, indeed in the event that the advance is moderate, it gives me a awesome sense of achievement and persuades me to keep moving forward.