Thursday, 15 December 2011

Bouncing Ball Excerise



The bouncing ball exercise is essentially my first animation. We started with 32 blank pages and numbered them accordingly. The first step was to draw a horizon line in the same location on each page, this ensured continuity. I then drew keyframes spaced out in the pages, usually whenever the ball bounced I would draw it’s location. This helped to make the frames between bounces accurate. My horizon line was not very steady as I did not use a ruler, I thought as it’s my first animation it should be freehand.

I pieced the animation together using the software Istopmotion. To do this I set a camera up above my 32 pages and took a photo of each frame. Once each photo was taken and pressed together in Istopmotion, I exported the clip to the video editing software Final Cut. I did this so I could repeat it five times over and add s soundtrack. I feel I could have improved on my animation by adding a background that worked with the ball.


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