Animation Experiment Reel

This is a video which shows all of my animations from March to present.

Might want to play it at the slowest speed for reviewing.

Animation 1: Ball Bounce. Mk 1.

Good:

• Bouncing up.
• Dropping down and squashing on the ground is effective.
• Ball stretch is good enough.

Room for improvement:

• Show the ball stretch out a little as it falls to the ground.
• More frames for the bounce.
• Look at how an actual ball bounces.

Animation 2: Bowling Ball Bounce.

Good:

• Ball rotation.
• Movement of the ball.
• Bouncing parts feel realistic.

Room for improvement:

• Maybe lose the last bounce, or make it look like a leap.

Animation 3: Ball Bounce. Mk 2.

Good:

• Stretching of the ball has improved.
• Bouncing animation has improved.

Room for improvement:

• Make the ball bounce all the way.
• Bouncing animation still needs a bit of time to improve.

Animation 4: Ball Bounce. Mk 3.

Not much of a difference from Mk 2.

Animation 5: Ball Bounce. Mk 4.

Just the same as the last two, only with the first bullet point for improvement.

Animation 6: Emotion Ball Bounces.

Order: Angry, Excited, Happy, Tired and Scared.

Good:

• Ball bounces all feel good and cartoonish.
• You can tell the emotions of the balls by the bounces.
• Bowling Ball animation is impressive.

Room for improvement:

• I think the last one could use with a few more frames, or a bit more space between the small ball and the bowling ball.
• Perhaps a bit more emotion for the excited ball.
• Maybe the angry ball causes a hole or a crack on the ground?

Animation 7: Close-up.

This animation was from the last project, however, I tweaked the camera a little and cropped the character back to size for experimentation. Will try to use this close-up skill in the animation.

Animation 8: Moving camera.

Experimentation with moving the camera from one end the other. Looks good but could slow down a little.

Animation 9: Character animation.

Character animation was made in Procreate and imported into RoughAnimator, thanks to the guidance of a friend from FLIX.

Facial expressions are expressive. Not bad for a first try. However, body movement and arms feel a little stiff. Still room for improvement.