LAUAN403 - Secondary Motion

For this task we needed to demonstrate our understanding of secondary motion and where/how to apply it by drawing over live action footage.

I think I did this rather well. The movement of the hair as I jump upwards is believable although I'm not too sure about how I did the movement of the hair as I go back down. Next time I will hopefully have better a understanding of Photoshop and I will be able to plan over the frames of the footage instead of going straight-ahead.

LAUAN403 - Follow Through and Overlapping Action

For this task, we needed to demonstrate our understanding of follow through and overlapping action as well as our knowledge of weight, gravity and the physics of certain objects and how they react to one-another.

I think that I executed this task very well. The boxes have a real feeling of weight and their movements are believable. However, the main issue with my work is that it ends too abruptly. The reason for this is because I ran out of paper (and time), so the video suffers from the action happening way too fast to properly analyse it and we don't even get to see the end of what is happening.

Next time I will animate this with cut-outs rather than doing it traditionally as it would be much easier and I wouldn't run the risk of running out of frames to work with.

LAUAN403 - Staging

This task asked us to demonstrate our understanding of staging by having us complete a six panel storyboard sequence based on a short nursery rhyme.

I am satisfied with how this turned out as I showcased an understanding of how to communicate camera movement along with character movement and action. The art also manages to strike a fair balance of being clear enough to read and being not overly detailed. I had to criticise this piece, it would be for it's simplicity; mainly in the way that half of the panels use the exact same shot. Different actions take place, sure, but I feel as if a more elaborate idea would have made for a more interesting storyboard, visual wise.

LAUAN403 - Anticipation

This task asked us to demonstrate our understanding of anticipation by creating a short sequence featuring a wind-up/build-up before an action.

I am very pleased with how my sequence turned out. It is on the short side, but the actual anticipation before the fox thrusts his arm into the tree hole is very good. I also like how the actual thrust of his arm turned out too. If I had more time I would have ironed out several things such as his tail and face drop at the end, but for demonstrating this particular principle I am more or less completely satisfied. However, a problem with this sequence that all my traditionally animated sequences share is the faint line work, which is, by no means invisible, but difficult to see unless viewing up close or in full screen.