Phenakistoscope

Our introduction to animation was looking at animation toys from the 1800s. The phenakistoscope is regarded as one of the first forms of animation. We created a loop with 16 frames on a circle and made it a gif on photoshop. It was pretty fun.

screenshot of photoshop interface with timeline
Making a gif on Photoshop

Flipbook

The flipbook was our first animation in class. Our assignment was to try to represent an emotion through the movement of geometric and abstract shapes. We used principles of animation such as anticipation, stretch and squash, timing, spacing, arcs, and exaggeration.

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Exquisite Corpse Animation

For this assignment, we were given three frames for the first, middle, and final frames in our animation. Our first frame was the same as another student’s last frame, so together our seperate animations would combine to create one long animation. We practiced straight ahead and pose to pose animation. We each animated two seconds with a frame rate of 12fps.

 

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Direct Techniques

For this project, we created two different clips with different compositions to practice using direct techniques. We chose between using paper cutouts, sand, paint, or charcoal. I used paper cutouts for the first animation and paint for the second.  We were required to use animation principles such as follow through, overlapping action, and secondary action. A challenge with using direct techniques was that we could only do straight ahead animation.

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Poem Animation

For this project, we created an animated poem in small groups. We chose the poem Lies About Sea Creatures by Ada Limon, and split it up into five parts. We chose between any of the animation forms we learned this quarter to create interesting visuals for our part of the poem. I drew the background and frames of the girl in photoshop, printed them out, and animated them using dragonframe.

This one has audio, folks!

 

Screenshot of Photoshop interface
Paper cutouts using Photoshop
screenshot of dragonframe
Animation using Dragonframe

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