Advance Animation / Exercises

16/04/25 - 28/05/25 (Week 01 - Week 06)

Isabel Tan Xen Wern / 0355602 / Bachelor in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Advance Animation / GCD 61604

Exercises

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JUMPLINK

Introduction

Exercise 1: Bouncing Ball

Ex1 Submission

Exercise 2: Pendulum

Ex2 Submission

Exercise 3: Emotion Pose

Ex3 Submission

Feedback 

Reflection

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INTRODUCTION

Figure 1.1

MIB (16/04/25)

Exercise 01: Bouncing Ball

Figure 1.2

Week 2 notes(30/04/25)

Figure 1.3

Insert keyframe (30/04/25)

• Press 'I' - insert keyframe
• Press 'K' - for selected channels

Figure 1.4

Motion Path (30/04/25)

• Motion path - Visualize the motion of points as paths over a series of frames.
• can be object origins and bone points.
• After every change made in the Graph Editor, you must click Update path.

Figure 1.5

Graph Editor (30/04/25)

• Graph editor - Edit animation Curves.
• Each point represents a Keyframe.
• Right-click the point and choose 'free' (make the value 0 first before adjusting the line).

Figure 1.6

After adjusting the Graph (30/04/25)

• After adjusting the graph curve, it looks like this.
• The distance between each key point becomes less and less as the ball comes to a stop.

Figure 1.7

Rotation (30/04/25)

• This line is used to adjust the rotation of the ball.
• Inserting keyframes as the rotation changes.
• Inserting a Keyframe at the start to mark the original position and inserting one at the end (Using -720 on the Y axis).

Figure 1.8

Viewport Render Animation (30/04/25)

• Using the Viewport Render Animation to check the final animation product.

Attempt 1

Figure 1.9

Soccer ball(15/05/25)

Figure 2.1

bowling ball(15/05/25)

Figure 2.2

Squash and Stretch(15/05/25)

Figure 2.3

Beach Ball(15/05/25)

Figure 2.4

Ping Pong Ball(15/05/25)

Feedback

Beach ball: good

bounce and stretch: make it faster / turn into stretch at the bounce / show the squash as flat / don't use roll at the end / early can prolong the squash and then go faster at the end

Bowling ball: good

PingPong Ball: needs a couple of bounces

Soccer ball - the timing should be gradual

Exercise 02: Pendulum

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Camera View (14/05/25)

• Add a camera.
• Make the X = 90 degrees to make the camera face straight ahead.

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Rotation (14/05/25)

• To stop the bottom two points from following the first point's rotation = delete/disable the view.

 

Notes:

The top should lead

g+y = g to slide y to maintain the same axis (graph). It It 
cannot be 5 frames, has to have a middle ground,

last one 1 2 3

Between the two key frames, you can add one breakdown, the top will be on the other direction (leading), the bottom 2 will follow

The first 2 swings have 6 frames, and the next 2 have 4, and the last 2 have 2 frames (no breakdown)

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Keyframes after feedback(20/05/25)

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Graph View(20/05/25)

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add lighting(20/05/25)

Attempt 1

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attempt 1(20/05/25)

Feedback:

- beginning a bit slow, bending too early at the start - bend only when it starts moving and hasn't even moved yet (somewhere have a drag) 

- The first movement cannot feel the drag

- Overall, the timing is slow - At 30+ keyframes is too fast - need to fix

Exercise 03: Emotion Pose

Attempt 1