2D V.S 3D !!!!
Some question regarding about 2D and 3D…
Do you need to be able to draw well to create good 2D animation? Explain your view.
That is not necessary. In 2D it does not matter is the drawing is good, so long as it has the principles of animation, even if the drawing is…weird (of course, it must be recognizable), it would still be able to create a good animation.(of course, well drawn is a bonus)
Here’s some funny example of 2D animation:
Nice videos huh? haha, I actually wanted to show another video, but that was a bit too violent haha.
Next question:
Do you need to be able to draw well to create good 3D animation? Explain your view.
Hmmm….that’s a tough question, well…I personally think that in 3D animation, well drawn will produce a better animation.(but why does it not matter in 2D animation?) I mean, after all, 3D is suppose to be linked to the real world so…I believe a good drawing will give a more realistic animation in 3D.
Here’s some example of 3D animation:
Next…
What do you think would separate a piece of poor animation from a piece of good animation? In other words, how would you go about deciding if a piece of animation is good or bad?
Well, in my opinion, I believe a good animation is to give the audience a good story, as well as being entertaining as well. A good animation must also have the animation principle of course!
In 2D animation, you need to be very aware of timing at a frame by frame level, using timing charts and other techniques – but for 3D animation, this is handled using the graph editor, which is more concerned with manipulating rates of change over time.
Does this affect how you approach your animation work? Explain.
How does this affect? Does not really affect I suppose, doing 2D and 3D is differently, to me that is. Doing this two kinds of animation just require different method, but i believe that they both achieve the same result, the timing that is.
Lastly..
Give a brief critique of Maya as an animation tool. Don’t just say Maya makes animation difficult, or easy, or that you need to learn a lot of stuff to use Maya – explain what Maya does well and not so well in terms of creating animation.
Well, the good things that maya allow us to do is that, we are able to create animation from it(of course -_-), that includes adding the textures, adding lighting,shadows, timing of the animation and others!!!(…cant really thing what maya does not so well in creating animation)
Some of the question regarding animation…
What is ease in and ease out?
Ease in and ease out is similar to slow in and slow out.
Ease in is the motion of an object that starts out slowly before speeding up at the end of the motion. Ease out is the opposite of ease in, that started the motion of the object fast before slowing at the end of the motion.
What is frame-per-second?
Each frame is actually a still images thus, it is the number of images seen within a second. Thus, using this concept, by playing a sequence of images within a second, we will be able to see the object in the image animating.
An example of ease in and ease out V.S constant rate:
When playing animation at a constant rate,
It will look like this and causes the ball to look….well…not real.
However, when playing animation using ease in and ease out,
It will look like the ball is really bouncing compared to the first video.(without the squash and stretch effect)
Animation in pencil part 2!!! ^_^
Here’s an animation of slow in and slow out, in regards to the video made earlier in “12 basic principles of animation…or half of it haha!!”:
…This was quite badly done…haha the person does not even look like it is jumping at all, but at least the hand gives an impression that the person is jumping.
Here’s another animation that I made in Pencil of the principle animation “Anticipation”…well kind of -_-”’:
This was made for fun actually haha ^_^
Disclaimer: I do not own the songs that are placed in the videos!!
Animation in Pencil ^_^!!!
Here’s the animation I did on Pencil using the tutorial in http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/01b/bball.shtml:
Cool huh!
It was pretty easy to do!!!
First, I drew a line:
the draw the lines for spacing and timing:
Then I started placing the balls(with paint) and created the animation!!!:
Next is a bowling ball!!!:
As it is heavier(supposedly), I made the arcs that the ball were bouncing shorter and lesser…please ignore the second hump on the video, I drew wrongly -_-”’.
12 basic principles of animation…or half of it haha!!
Finally the moment I have been waiting for…ANIMATION!!!! haha ^_^
Let’s see…To start off, let’s take a look at the 12 principles of animation:s
- Squash and Stretch
- Anticipation
- Staging
- Straight ahead action and Post to post
- Follow through and Overlapping action
- Slow in and Slow out
- Arcs
- Secondary action
- Timing
- Exaggeration
- Solid drawing
- Appeal
Whew That’s a lot!!!
And here is a video that demonstrates (kind of…) six of these principle.
Take a look:
Squash and Stretch – The ball bouncing causing a it to be squashed when it hits the floor and stretched after hitting the floor
Anticipation – The hand being pulled backed, letting the audience know what is coming next.
Secondary Action – The action of Yang mei after getting punched.
Slow in and Slow out – The movement of body needs time to accelerate and slow down.
Follow through and Overlapping action – Hands falling at different times and although my feet had stop, my body is still moving.
Staging – Making it clear what is important in the scene (Which in this video, is me!)
That’s all folks haha (I know I danced very badly -_-”’)
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the music, only the videos.
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