Exploration 2 Overview

Exploration 2 project was something that I was really looking foward to: 2D drawing animation!  This excrise went through the basics of Drawing animation and learning how time consuming it is to drawing hundreds of frames to create motion. Our subject was a simple bouncing ball using the animation techniques of slow in and slow out along with squash and stretch.

Unlike many who got annoyed with drawing, I was enjoying myself drawing the frames over the guide that I drew just for the animation that I made.  The process for this for me went by quite easy. Draw guides, trace onto frames, then shot the animation. Same process for every single one of the animations that I had to draw. First animation was a bouncing ball in front of the screen. Second one was the same bouncing ball but with the squash and stretch effect to the animation. Third one was animation of a regular ball using squash and stretch bouncing across the screen 3 times. Fourth animation was of a lighter ball bouncing across screen and the fifth one was of a heavier ball doing the same thing.

For the final, there really wasn't any improvements need since the I have gotten the squash and stretch down along with slow in and slow out.  The animation overall was a complete success! There was the etra credit animation we could have done, but I decided not to make it due to other school work that had to be done. Plus I am very proud of what I have already made. 

Here is the full animation: