At the beginning of 2020 my Animation Bootcamp course at School of Motion started and, as I progressed through, I learnt a lot about animation principles and their use. There are a few homework pieces here with some of my notes on the process below.
The Pong Challenge, below, was really fun to animate, bending those paddles and getting the ball to squash and stretch as needed. I worked with the CC Bend It effect in After Effects.
We were getting really bendy here! The NUDL exercise asked us to work with wobbly pool noodles to create a logo reveal. For this and the next project, I worked with different strategies: here I applied the use of Puppet Tool Pins and then made a rig with the help of DUIK.
This exercise was all about overshoots (and anticipation), so some shooting was, eventually, necessary. After all, this course was filled with puns. Hold on tight!
The Step Three homework was based around understanding the purpose of any motion that we apply to an animated object. There should be a sense in the way anything is animated and the important question to ask ourselves is: Why is it moving?