All the animation you see here are forms of animation i was tasked to do. All of these except for the paper baseball animation were done in 2 to 3 hours lol. Some I had fun and some were genuinely difficult. The Silhouette animation and painting on glass was really annoying to work with since both of these forms can have frames that can be ruined by just a simple touch since the painting one was made using some paint and some hydro glycerin which is makes the painting very thin and had to use a towel to erase. SO MANY errors kept happening and i would say that the painting on glass was my weakest one and i had more i wanted to do but i was running out of time and running out of paint. From all of these i kept trying to animate these as if it were 2d animation so getting paint to work with you is seriously difficult even though that wasn't a technique i wasn't actually supposed to do but at the same time i don't really care and i think experimenting like that made my animation more interesting enough.
The silhouette animation was done with all parts being single limbed pieces through out the animation so even though i conveyed the fact that he bent his arms to launch himself, all i really did was use the camera to only show half of the arms and covered it just enough to make it look like he bended it. Working with Silhouette animation was especially difficult since all the the parts were actually meant to be stuck together like a puppet using a sort of pin fastener. But i thought it was boring and made the character look stiff so what i did was.. not use it and i feel like i made the character look more alive but GOD it was really annoying to animate, i don't know how i animated that in 2 hours if ill be honest but in the end i liked how it turned out.
The Claymation one would've been better to work with had i had more clay to work with. There's a noticeable error in this animation because of a random piece that comes out of the nowhere but i didn't notice it until i got through a certain portion that it wouldn't have been worth it to fix it especially if i didn't have anymore time at the time. i wanted more clay for the exploding part of the head but i didn't have more clay and once i was done my teacher gave me more clay.
The paper cut out one was pretty fun to work with and trying to figure out how i should articulate the animation was like a fun puzzle. I would've really liked to make more but as usual i didn't have time. But i feel very happy of how it came out and how paced the frames even if it was just 2 seconds.
Oh boy the object one i did with my Gameboy Advance, eraser and coins. so uuuuh i completely forgot that we were supposed to bring objects to animate before we got into class so before I left home i was in a rush but before i left my sister told me we had to do this so in the span of like ten seconds i grabbed anything that would make sense so i ended up grabbing my GBA and handful of coins. I already had that eraser in my backpack. I had a lot of fun figuring out how this animation would turn out subject matter wise and simply figuring how do i get certain frames to look like how they do. So when my GBA opens up it looks fine but getting it to do that was kind of tricky. My GBA automatically closes when its slightly opened unless its at a certain far angle lets like like 100 degrees. so what i did was that i wanted to make my gba to open and to make it look natural. but since the gap of the angle is too much that it would've looked like it opened too fast. So what i did was that i used the coins to actually get me the angles i wanted for certain frames and as you can see in the animation it looks as fine as ever. It's not mind blowing but i felt clever solving that. And everything else in the animation was intuitive. The piece of paper that comes in the end was a essentially a last minute decision as i thought it would've been more interesting if the fight was interrupted rather than it just being straight forward. Overall it was a very fun to animate and i liked my result. (Oh ya and if you're wondering why it says "rated G for everyone" and if you don't know what my character is lets just say she's funny).
The paper one was animated using a flipbook. This was the one where I took the opportunity to use as much time to make it. animating this was difficult of course but i was really liking how it was turning out especially when i was rendering the frames. The day i finished this was also the 3rd day i worked on this which ended up lasting for 8 hours as in i ended up going to sleep until like 7am. This was the real deal i wanted to work on and i do want to work in so i tried to do the most i could with this. The intuitiveness behind it was also fun to play around with and overall i had lots of fun even though i was dead tied and the result is good. I already posted this before on here but this one is probably one of the only and best things i could do that its worth putting it in this video. This will be the only 2d animation you'll get to see from me until i get a new pc so i can actually run these damn programs.
The final one you see here is an assignment which is again animated in like 2 hours and what it was was that i had to combine two forms of animation and go from there (i also had to provide a story board but haha no). So what could be better than (and Definitely easy to animate...) to animate a silhouette hand by cutting out the frames of the animation..... I'm not doing that, I even ended up stating that at the end of that animation. Not that i wouldn't have wanted i just had like 3 hours to animate, so i ended up making 3 frames (mind you i had messed up trying cut out like 7 hands so before i could get to the process i good portion of it was trying to get this damn hand right. So what I ended up doing was just making him look menacing and used some of my excess cut out pieces and used them for smear frames. As I was animating this i had a lot of fun animating the scissors since the idea itself was making me scoff and laugh as i was animating this and animating the scissors to go faster and faster was fun and entertaining. trying to get the lighting to make the words on the paper visible was annoying though. Overall i had a lot of animating this, i wanted to animate the scissor talking but i was staying too late after class lol.
Even though i didn't really like the class itself I really liked animating in general. My passion for animation is still alive and almost all my animations gave my peers a good laugh. I was like drunk being there- no i actually wasn't but i felt like it since i was very nervous seeing them. Oh ya anD THE SCREENING ROOM WASNT WORKING SO WE HAD TO WATCH THEM ALL IN A CLASSROO FU- So ya uuuh thank you to all my friends who gave me a stupid amount of support to getting through this.
The music used in this video is Rioters Choice ◕ ‿ ◕ - Allkore Riot Squad Vol. 1