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Dekard
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 Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 10:53 am |
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Welp, back to school after 2 week spring break, finally got to do our first animation.  It's fairly large mov file because we used the animation codec, so forgive the file size it's 4 meg. But for 32 quick circles not a bad pencil test. I think I'm gonna like this animation stuff.
http://www.prime-ape.com/projects/Bouncyball.mov
It's not very 'exciting' or 'unique' it was just a 2 second animation project we had to do last night and show squash and stretch and have it be two seconds.
Check it out and critique if you'd like too, I'd like you guys too, tell me how you 'feel' the ball is, too soft? Too hard? Too fast? Too slow? Just right? It's not due until next week so I may fix it up a bit in the next week and make it a bit purdier. Thanks for any input!!
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Dekard
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 5:41 pm |
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Originally posted by elam:
Sweet!
I did a couple of those for my animation classes.
Nice bouncing.
Do you ever use Painter? It has onion skins to create animations as well.
No I haven't used Painter yet, I've seen some nice stuff come out of it though from these boards, I keep itching to go out and grab it, especially since I get those nice student discounts now, I saw the library had MS Office XP Pro the other day for $25 bucks, couldn't pass up the oppurtunity. Might do the same for Painter. |
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elam
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 11:17 pm |
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Sweet!
I did a couple of those for my animation classes.
Nice bouncing.
Do you ever use Painter? It has onion skins to create animations as well. |
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egerie
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 2:56 pm |
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Hey that's cool for a first line test
I don't know how you constructed your animation but you could try doing a plan for it. What I mean is draw your whole animation on a single sheet of paper.
First draw the trajectory of your ball so you can center the ball even if it stretches or squashes. Then think of your timming and presto there you go !
A fun little thing you could do is make different kind of balls bouncing. Like a ping-pong ball versus a bowling ball.
You could even try to animate only a ball and try to make someone guess what kind of ball it is (like a tennis ball racing accross a court etc).
Have a blast and avoid paper cuts
<edit>typos</edit>
[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: egerie ] |
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