2D ANIMATION: PROJECT 1 - FINAL PROJECT

Aurelia Regina Sutjahjokartiko, (0329953)  
2D Animation

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Lecture 1
28 August 2017
12 Principles of Animation

From this video, my lecture ask me to identify 12 principles of animation in this video. Here is my identification and explanation :

1. Squash and Stretch
This principle gives the illusion of weight and volume to a subject, and is often used for comical effect. From this video, you can see a man who climbing a wall, his body movement is squash and stretch when he tried to do it.

Figure 1. Duet Video at 2.24 -2.33

2. Anticipation

This principle prepares the audience for action, and increases realism of action. Sometimes used to heighten the suspense of a action. In other word, the character prepare the some action to anticipate something. For instance, this baby girl slipped and she tried to anticipate that.

Figure 2. Duet Video at 0.54-0.56

3. Arcs

The arc principle is that almost all actions in life have a slightly circular motion. Humans and animals always move in arcs. Arcs increase the realism of the subject's action. From this video, the girl who swimming in the sea and suddenly she move circular as a transition into dancing girl.

Figure 3. Duet Video at 1.15 -1.17

4. Ease In and Ease Out / Slow In and Slow Out

The subjects needs time to slow down - and speed up. Drawings between two extreme pose provide the subject with greater realistic movement. As you can see from this video, an embrio will shown when the star comes out and this embrio disappears when it goes out / down from the frame.

Figure 4. Duet Video at 0.11-.019

5. Appeal

Animated characters need to captivate audiences. Complicated character faces and lack of symmetry often make it difficult for audiences to connect. For instance, this video used this principle as transition to change from a baby to a dancing girl.

Figure 5. Duet Video at 0.56 - 1.13

6. Timing

More frames create slower action, whilst fewer frames create faster action. As you can see from this video, when this girl jumps out is creating slower action as compare to when she is running.

Figure 6. Duet video at 1.02 - 1.06

7. Solid Drawing

Adds weight, volume and 3D illusion to the subjects. From this video, despite being drawn in 2D, this character on a kissing moment should on 3D mode to build audience feeling.

Figure 7. Duet video at 2.45 - 3.00

8. Exaggeration

Present the physical features or elements of a character in a exaggerate form. As you can see carefuly, this girl is not really tall, but when she dance and jumps, her legs look like in long form.

Figure 8. Duet video at 2.00 -2.02

9. Pose to Pose

Involves drawing a few key frames for each action, followed by filling the interval. If you see in figure 8, there is the principle "pose to pose". In the first pose, she jump and open her leg, and the final pose, she was slipped and that boy helped her. So, between the first and final pose, there is interval pose such as running and jump again.

10. Staging

Staging is the principle that every pose or action that a character makes should convey a clear intention. For instance, this girl convey audience that she ready to dance with his dance first pose.

Figure 9. Duet Video at 2.11 - 2.13

11. Secondary Actions

Emphasises and supports the primary actions of the subject, whilst providing scenes with greater life.

In other word, an additional action that reinforces and adds more dimension to the main action. The main action is the girl jump and dancing, but the secondary action is movement of her dress to convey audience that she is dancing.

Figure 10. Duet Video at 2.16 - 2.20

12. Follow Through

Refers to parts of the subject that continue to move after a completed actions. In other words, when a character is in action and stops, nothing stops all at once. So when a character is running and stops, their main body will stop, but the other parts of their body will keep moving for a bit after. For example, this girl has done rolling in the air, her body is stop smootly but if you see her hair is not stop at the same moment when her body stop too.

Figure 11. Duet Video at 1.15-1.17

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Exercises

Exercise 1 (28 August 2017) - Flipbook
My lecture ask me to create little animation in the flipbook and it requires bounce, rotate, and break. So i created a flying paper-plane, then change into bounce square, and finally change into splash water. (Sorry, there is no picture since the lecture ask that book)

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Project Progression 
First Assignment - Limited Animation
Week 1

"There for you" stop motion lyrics. (In group with Vivien)
Background music : There For You - Martin Garrix
We have plan that lyric will be interpretation as movement, dancing, and also come out with several lyrics to emphasize. Here is our progression

Monday, 4 September 2017

Discussion between Vivien and me about what a story/lyric will be happen in our video

Figure 12. Rough thumbnail

Figure 13. Property and Equipment

Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Here is our thumbnail sketches with aspect ratio 16:9

Figure 14. Thumbnail 1

Figure 15. Thumbnail 2

Figure 16. Thumbnail 3

Figure 17. Thumbnail 4

Thursday, 7 September 2017

Behind the scenes of taking picture.

Figure 18. BTS property

Figure 19. BTS Property

Figure 20. Behind the scene 1

Figure 21. Behind The Scene 2

Figure 22. Behind The Scene 3

Monday, 11 September 2017

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2nd Assignment - Metamorphosis
Animation principle that should use is Squash and Stretch ,Slow in and Slow Out, Solid Drawing

Metamorphosis from powerbank to LINE bear

3rd Assingment - Walk Cycle and Lipsync

• Walk Cylce

Animation Principle that should use is Follow through and overlapping action , Arcs


First of all , i want to modified the walking style to be jellyfish walk. So i re-record myself to walk with waving hand. It is hard to directly draw flow of walk cycle on adobe animate, so i identify first, then i draw on paper then i trace it in adobe animate.

Video how human walking

The result of identifying how human walking

Jellyfish walking

Hedgehog turn around

Hedgehog walking

• Lipsynch

Animation principle that should use is Exaggeration, Appeal, Squash and Stretch

Hedgehog singing

Final Assignment / Final Project - Final Animated to Music 15 Second Loop

• Pre Production (Concept Board and Storyboard)

Basicly, my concept board is a human is dancing with 2D creature together and there is a glitch effect because human and 2D creature is different world. That's why there is a glitch effect.

For reference, i used "That's what i like - Bruno Mars"

Also, i used some reference from Pinterest . And here is my storyboard

Storyboard and planning

For the song, i used Dimtri Vegas - Crowd Control.

• Production (Animatics and Final Animation)