KNB211 Assessment 2 Journal
Based on the fundamental principles of Animation, I worked on my own work. First of all, thinking of the characters. After listening to the audio of the work, it decides to be a man and a woman and they are talking to each other. I have watched and analysed numbers of animation videos about dialogue between two people. Their postures, emotions and expressions are carefully analysed.
Actually, my work is trying to follow the animation principles. The movement of the girls pony tail is following the principle follow through and overlapping action. It help to render movement more realistically, and help to give the impression that characters follow the laws of physics, including the principle of inertia. For staging, actually, I used to set the camera focus on above the waist of characters which I thought it could make the expression more clearly to be seen. However, the center of gravity on characters would be ignored and I chose to focus on the whole characters finally. Because my work is not complex, straight ahead action is easy for me to use. In timing, I mainly focus on the man’s posture, especially during his second sentence. Correct timing makes objects appear to obey the laws of physics.
Making animation is a really heavy work and it focus more on details, but it also is a happy experience to see my own animation work at last.