Author: Linda Mayoux

  • Emma Calder

    Emma Calder has worked as a Animation Director, Artist, Graphic Designer and Lecturer. She has written, designed and illustrated books, for both adults and children. This is her second documentary film.

  • Bouncing Balls

    Types of Ball

    Physics of Ball Motion

    Animations

    Bouncing Balls Adobe Animate Motion Tween

    Jazza Adobe Animate motion tweened bouncing ball and curve path.
    Aaron Blaise TPPaint Frame by Frame. Exaggerated squash and stretch. Keeps straight line from impact. Redraws up bounce instead of duolicating and reversing to stop things being mechanical.

    Tv paint
    Frame by Frame

    TV Paint Frame by Frame Simple UpdDown Bounce
    TVPaint FbF Horizontal Bounce
    TV Paint FbF Complex perspective bounce

  • Ng’endo Mukii

    Documentary mixed media

    Commissioned project for the Danish Refugee Council and RMMS in Nairobi. This Migrant Business, shows the systems that exist that enable and exploit African migrants seeking better lives in the Middle East and Europe. The system creates a cyclic force that ensures that demand and supply will continue to to feed into each other, indefinitely. This is a lucrative trade with vulnerable people as its currency. Really effective digital compositing of photography overlay, rotoscoping and puppet animation of drawing/painting.
  • Figure animation

    Stick and full body figures

    https://youtu.be/ilrJVUn0QTw

    See also Ross Bollinger: pencilmation

    Gesture and Action

    Howard Wimshurst tutorial Adobe Animate. Focus on end and extreme poses first, get these right and flowing. Then in-betweens. 24FPS on 2s, or 1s and 3s, or even 3s and 4s.
    https://youtu.be/ecoGkqpeq8w?t=3
    Howard Wimshurst tutorial Adobe Animate. If two characters are interacting then draw them at the same time going back and forth, but on different layers, so the interactions can be fully developed together. Make figures move and swing. Add motion blur lines. Bring in energy streaks like Ross Tran. Do streaks on ones, character on 2s and 3s, with redrawn resting poses that ‘breathe’. Can add lightning flash with reversed colours.
    Character animation
  • Sound in animation

    Nb look at Audition and Bloop Making an Animated Movie.

    Do you start with animation and add sound, or start with a sound track and add animation? Going back and forth.

    Overview from Bloop animation of using Audition for sound design. Brings the animation into Audition. Has many tracks for sound effects. And master track.
    Animation should be seen as film-making where audio is as important as visual information. Even in independent film-making it is important when editing sound to consider camera movement and proximity to the camera as well as the environment in which the sound is occurring. If the sound is the same throughout an animation it sounds fake. But good sound editing can make even low budget animation have great impact.
    Howard Wimshurst, an independent animator, describes different ways in which sounds can be obtained for an animation: recording them himself using Audacity and a USB mike and sound libraries.
    Quick animation demonstrating use of basic sounds and rhythms.
    Foley sound. Shows how different sounds are created to show rain, weather etc. Usually done in a big studio with different objects. Recorded in time to the visuals while watching the film on a big screen.

    Foley sound

    Sound libraries