Flipbook

 "In this session, we will examine the properties of a 'propellant balloon', a 'flicked balloon', and a 'water-filled balloon'. In 3 practical exercises today, you will take care to observe the way a balloon moves with each variation, and capture this movement as a flick book style animation, using post-it notes.

Generate 3 simple flipbook animations that visually describe and capture the essence of movement. Consider and apply the following principles: arcs, slow in-and-out, exaggeration, solid drawing (observation), timing, and motion.

The animations should be developed using straight ahead animation."

CAPTURING MOTION

- Capturing of propellant balloon

- Slow motion clip

- Chosen due to movement of balloon valve and staging when the balloon leaves the frame and then flies back in

- Capturing of flicked balloon

- Arguably least interesting of the 3 clips to animate - not as much movement in a flicked balloon

- Clip chosen due to balloon flying off-screen and then camera following it - balloon has a clear path

- Capturing of water balloon

- Most fun video to animate

- Clip chosen as balloon drops out of frame and could (hypothetically) burst

- Movement is very apparent in wiggly balloon

- Used two clips for water-filled balloon

- Clip of me throwing it on the floor

- Slow motion to capture balloon bursting and capture water exploding out of it

STRAIGHT AHEAD ANIMATION

- Animation with no pre-determined or planned poses, no storyboarding

- Opposite of pose-to-pose

- Dislike the lack of planning

- Enjoyed how easy it was; very easy to piece together quickly in my brain

- Lots of flicking back and forth to match up the frames correctly from post-it to post-it

OUTCOME

Propellant Balloon

Flicked Balloon

Water-Filled Balloon

EVALUATION

- Water balloon flipbook most successful

- Squash and stretch used effectively; exaggeration of edges of balloon stretching out and squashing down

- Effective use of staging to create a floor for the balloon, and then using it going out-of-frame to create a water splash

- Smooth animation with use of highlight to emphasise form

- Flicked balloon flipbook least successful of the three

- Not too interesting, not as many motions to be played with or exaggerated

- Timing would have been the best thing to exaggerate in this instance, but opportunity was missed due to staging