Oliver Thacker, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester

This is one of many scenes I have been animating for the Collaboration Project. I think it came out well, however there were a couple things that I don't think look right. But, I have learned quite a lot from doing this and I did enjoy myself (especially on the Ring scene)

So for the Soundscape project I have been given these images: Also for the other project I have been given A Figure Skater, A Zoo and A Briefcase and been tasked with making a 2 minute story using all three in some way. My first thought is to make it some kind of spy film, maybe a figure skater who is a Russian sleeper agent who stole a briefcase and escapes through a zoo. Also I think of making the figure skater a cyborg, robot legs with ice skates that come out of their feet. Who knows what will come out of my brain.

This time we were making balls that bounce, like last time, but with secondary animation this time. Secondary animation is stuff like tails and things that will go along with the primary animation, in this case the ball bouncing. Like before the balls travel along an arc, slowing down and bouncing less with every bounce.

This shows how different sized balls and different weights fall and interact with surfaces such as the ground. The bowling ball, the biggest and heaviest, falls and bounces a little because it's not light enough to be able to use the energy in order to bounce higher or bounce multiple times. The tennis ball also encounters this problem as it is not light enough to make as many bounces as the ping pong ball This shows how a ball will bounce along a surface, slowing and bouncing less as it moves along. It might be difficult to see here but the ball travels in an arc, bounces and then travels along a smaller arc, repeating until it runs out of energy and rolling the rest of the way.

This exercise showed us the difference between smooth movements and movements that ease in and out. This ball moves evenly This one starts and ends slowly, but speeds up in the middle This swing moves evenly along an arc This one eases in and out like before along it's arc This one moves in a straight line. This isn't right because things swing in an arc, and this one does not. When organic things move, their movements are usually a series of different arcs.