Flour Sack and Weighted Ball Bounces

Slowly working my way up to bigger and better things but first I really need to get these basics down.

Basic Animation Exercises: 2D

Back to the basics! I learned a ton doing these simple exercises, squash and stretch, anticipation, arcs, timing, overlap, follow through, slow-in slow-out, etc.. Since doing these, I think I have a more sturdy foundation for 2D animation and its principles as I keep working and doing more things. All these exercises were described by StefanLipsius at 11secondclub.com, you can view the original post here: http://www.11secondclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19597

1: Looping Ball bounce: First and Last frame are at the top of the screen
2: Bounce in place with a settle to a stop: First frame is at the top, last frame is on the ground.
3: Bounce across the screen with the same height each bounce.
4: Bounce across the screen, each bounce shorter than the last, eventually coming to a stop
EXTRA. practice working with a pendulum (Not included in the original) 
5: A pendulum swinging, eventually coming to a stop.
6: A pendulum hits the ball, causing the ball to hit a wall, bounce a few times and come to a settle, all the while, the pendulum comes to a stop as well.
7: Rubber Pencil: Overlap and Follow through exercise.





Now that that's done, Merry Christmas Time!!!!

Basic Drawing Classes: Week 2

Hi!

Week 2 of basic drawing is complete and so is the first assignment. We learned different shading methods and drawing different shapes. I touched up the shading for the drawings from last week because I felt that throughout the week I've gotten better but my scanner doesn't pick up some of the shading details so I decided to leave them out.

Crawl-the-wall shadow

Scribble Shading

Some extra work

Parrel blending shading

Point-ilism. Extra credt

Next week our assigment is to draw a collection of shapes together in one picture stacked up and organized around each other. I'm looking forward to it!

also...

TODAY IS THIS BLOG'S 50TH POST

Woo! Thanks for reading over the months!

Cartoony Animator

Basic Drawing Classes: Week 1

Hi there!

As you may know, school has started for me. I'm taking Basic Drawing and right now we're on our first assignment. We're drawing basic figures and working on shading. I've honestly never worked a lot on shading so I'm just starting but here's what I got so far

Week 1:


Thanks for reading!