Assignment 1 - Ball Bounce I/Principles of Animation
Participation
(Due Friday, Sept 8th, 5pm)
Deliverable
(Due Sunday, Sept 10th, 11:00pm)
Participation
(Due Friday, Sept 8th, 5pm)
- Read the Course Website Thoroughly, especially the Submission Guidelines
- Join the class Piazza and Box. Invitations will be sent out soon.
- Post a WIP of your ball bounce to Piazza.
- Watch your peers' WIP animations for Assignment 1. Respond to at least 3 of those Piazza posts with constructive feedback by Sunday.
Deliverable
(Due Sunday, Sept 10th, 11:00pm)
- Annotated video with 3 principle callouts
- Find a clip of animation you find compelling. It should be 30 sec - 2.5 minutes long and can be 2D or 3D.
- In a Piazza post, link the video and add a short description on why you chose this particular clip. How do things move? What style of animation is it? What type of production was it? When was it made?
- After the paragraph, list the 3 principle callouts in the Piazza post and include the timestamp of exactly where each callout happens in the video.
- Ball Bounce
- Choose a type of ball to animate. Find reference in real life or in a video to observe. This does not need to be submitted.
- Draw a plan of your animation. Make sure your image is clear and legible and submit it as a JPG or PNG to your Box folder. There is a video about making a plan in the Tutorials section of the Box
- Download the Simple Ball Rig.
- Animate your ball bounce. Tutorial Here
- Submit your files to Box. This includes a playblast and your Maya binary file.
- Submit a WIP playblast to Piazza by Friday at 5pm. Include a description of what you are doing and any worries you might have.
- Reading (optional but helpful):
- Watch the Ball Bounce Reel by Tomas Jech
- Read this page on How to Draw a Ball Bounce Plan by Larry's Toon Institute
- Read Physics in Animation: Timing, Spacing, and Scale
- Watch 12 Principles of Animation