360 animation

For the You Spin Me Right Round task, I decided to animated my doll which was simple in shape, but had detail and was interesting with the square shapes that were the arms of the doll as this was a challenge ensuring that the perspective was the same as the doll. This also gave me the chance to shade in the animation as to experiment with the light direction upon the doll as it rotates; I shaded the lineart as I wanted to add volume and weight to the object. I purposely placed the doll lower than my eye level, so that I could draw the doll in a slight downwards perspective as to challenge myself further, rather than draw at a straight eye level perspective.

I really enjoyed this task as it was different compared to the computer generated animations that I have been creating lately, it made a change using paper and pencil to animate and I want to try and animate, even if it is only another 12 images animation, in my own time to develop my skills using this technique.

Matthias Brown

Matthias Brown creates these interesting and weird loop animations, of a face looking from side to side in which stretched and distorted facial features are seen. It inspired me through the use of media used to create the loop, and the fade of the loop as if it has been wiped away. It reminds me as if it has been drawn on a white board through the use of the line, which looks as if it has been drawn with a marker pen, however I can tell that it has been drawn on paper through the grain of the background.

Browns work is inspiring through how he purposely distorts the movement of the face as it turns.
He further developed his work by adding more than one of the same animation together in a grid and starting each at a different point works well as it follows a zig zag motion as each row starts slightly after the other. 

Study Task 4 - Disney animation - 360 degree spin

Our next visual language task is to draw an interesting object and draw 12 images of which so that when it is animated it will show a 360 degree spin.
I began by gaining inspiration from animations that use 360 spins, such as Disney films, with the main princess/character spins to show off their dress or simply dancing much like the classic scene in the animation film Beauty and the Beast.
With the character spin, the animation takes into consideration the 12 disciplines, such as follow through, pose to pose, anticipation, arcs and emphasis. Using emphasis with in the spin, gives that classic Disney feel with the stretch of the arms and the movement of the hair and dress that follow the main action of the spin. This can be seen in the Sleeping Beauty line test of Aurora spinning as she talks to another character.
In the Ariel gif, I can see that the movement of her character would involve elongated and stretched anatomy and facial features for it to smoothly work.