The Rabbit and the Crocodile

The Rabbit and the Crocodile is an animation i made for the last brief of this module that examines a number of key words. The key word i chose was love. At the start i had a lot of very complex ideas all about emotions and peoples minds and i really struggled to get a simple enough idea that would be suitable enough for a 10 second animation. In the end i got to the idea of a rabbit that falls in love with a crocodile and after traveling a great distance and with a lot of difficulty he finally gets to his love only to be eaten by him.

  In order to get an idea on the timing of my animation i created this animatic from my storyboard. I then worked out how many frames it would take at 12fps to last as long as it does in this animatic.

After a long while of drawing out each frame i finally had it done. I had made a few shortcuts, for example on one scene where the rabbit is looking at the road he has to take it is 24 frames long but instead of drawing the same thing 24 times i just drew it 6 times and repeated it so that it still has the slight shake that you get from hand drawing an entire scene for each frame but it didnt have to take as long.

  I think next time i create a hand drawn animation i am going to have maybe two or three frames for the background so it has that slight shake but also have the characters animated separately and overlay them and see if that takes as long.

Pose to Pose 2: The Fall

For my second pose to pose i wanted to do a slapstick-esc fall but i was not comfortable in my abilities enough to do it anything other than a small ball. The final animation wasn't terrible, but the amount the ball slows in and out, particularly at the top of the arcs where it slows down quite jarringly is something i wish i had foreseen in my plans. Other than that i actually think this animation was quite successful, i quite like the small amount of jiggle the walls of cliffs have from drawing them out over and over again, it is very similar to that of older animations like Roobarb and Custard.

Pose to Pose 1: The pendulum

Today we tried proper pose to pose animation. Pose to pose animation is different from Straight ahead animation because it is all planned out before it is drawn.

   A few of my class mates had different techniques for working out how to space their pendulums but i decided to start with a key frame at the top of each side and one in the very middle. I then halved the space exponentially moving higher up each time.
 
  Another problem i faced was that there was one two many frames on one side of pendulum and not the other. I fixed this by moving my plan around and did the same again on the pendulums way back. In the end i think it was quite successful, and i will most likely use a different technique in my next pose to pose animation.

Flip-booking Act 2: Blood and Photoshop

With this flipbook we needed to explore arcs so i decided to keep the bouncing ball but i made it bounce on the floor and then the wall to practice with spacing, squash and stretch, easing and arcs. 

  

  I was quite proud of the outcome so i decided to add more shapes to it in order to practice with some secondary actions with the ears and tail and again i think this turned out quite nice as the ears bounce realistically. The tail could probably have used with a little more work as it would likely bounce more than it does.

  On friday we then also got taught how to make gifs in photoshop, so i scanned in the pages and made this animation. I then also played a little bit with a graphics tablet and added the blood effects.

  Overall i think this was quite a successful beginners animation, obviously it needs some work but i feel that it shows an understanding of a good amount of the 12 principles.

Flip-Booking Act 1: SORT OUT YER VOLUMES

this is my first flip book and i think it turned out alright in regards to movement and squashing and stretching however i had a large problem with keeping the volume the same in each frame, i will be sure to practice drawing the volume right in my next flipbook.