Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Bouncing Ball Animation

 Hello fellow bloggers, tis I, Sophie the first again. How are you all? Winter break was fantastic for me and now I'm back at school and this quarter I'm in animation. We are learning the ropes and it all beginners stuff, but I love it! So without further ado here we go:

   The Steps 

    The frist this you want to do when creating an animation is make a background. I choose to do midday, with the sun high in the sky. Then you choose your foreground and background colors. After click the gradient tool to create shading, this tool will help it look more realistic and 3-D. I also added in  couple more colors to the sky, like yellow for the sun. All you do to add it to the gradient is click a place in the shading bar, choose your color, and move it were ever you want. Next we made the grass or the ground, were the ball will bounce. I choose to do bright green grass, like springtime color. To make sure your grass doesn't come out of its respected rectangle you have to command click on the layer and that will only select the place you want your grass. Then just add in more colors and voila, you have shaded grass/ground. After that I created the ball. First choose the rectangle tool and change it to the ellipse tool and hold shift to make it a perfect circle. Then you just make more and more layers, slowly moving the ball down, spreading it further apart, and squeezing it in. This will give it the effect that its gaining speed and moving down. Make sure you always label layers and lock them when your done, this will preventing anything from happening.
                                                        
          What Did I learn

       During the project I learned how to better use photoshop for animation and not just touching up pictures. I learned that animation is not as easy as I orginally thought, although I still love it! There are always things you can add to layers to make it look better and more real. I learned that layers and spacing are key points in making animation look good, the more layers you have and the closer your animation is together will determine the speed. I learned a couple techniques like: squash and stretch, this means that as your object is moving it will stretch more to make it seem like its moving faster and then you squash it when it makes impact. In animation everything looks better exaggerated. We also learned easing in and easing out. When an object is easing in, you start with the frames closer together then spreed them apart as they gain speed, its the same with easing out. You start with the frames far apart but then make them closer as they lose speed.

How Did It Go

      I think that this project went smoothly and I had a lot of fun. This was my first animation and I loved it, no matter the hard work it took. I have learned a lot and am so ready for our next project. I wish I didn't have so many colors because as you can tell from down below, my projects looks a little grainy. I've learned how real animators feel, although this is probably little compared to what they do, but I think I'll get the hang of it soon. The hard part was remebering all the steps it takes, I have never used a Mac before e-COMM so all this stuff is new to me and is sightly diffcult to remeber but its all worth it because I always love the finished project.

  Till next time,
Sophie the First.
   

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