IN this exercise we learned how to create short traditional animations using lightbox drawn with pen and paper.

This week mainly practices the visualisation of animated movements, through practicing the transformations between poses or facial expressions. One classic object we animated was a bouncing ball. Although simple but it involves many of the principles in animation; such as squash and stretch, timing, anticipation and easing in/ out.

I mostly enjoyed the last exercise, drawing from pose to pose. With a regulated timing guide, my character preforms a rather dramatic series of movements that plays out like a meme. This demonstrates the importance of timing to movements, also requires detailed control while adding in-betweens. I am not a very detailed person, reflected from my animations, it is roughly sketched. In the past I have been meaning to fix it. These practices helped me a lot in focusing on drawing in consistent styles and neater lines as well as understanding the principles.