The product of a 4-day weekend (for a horse race! I love this country!) I hadn’t animated anything in over 2 years, so better done than perfect hey? Morphs, wobbles, magical leg-lengthening and falling out of arcs included…

Someday I’ll get the hang of this cleanup thing ;P

Between animating this weekend and cutting up a very reluctant chunk of meat last night, my arm has had enough for now.

Rough draft of a head turn based on exercise from Tony White’s The Animator’s Workbook.

I started animating a walk from Richard Williams’ Animator’s Survival Kit, but found myself frozen in terror unable to fill in the inbetweens! So I’ve taken a few steps back (ha ha ha….ha) and decided to muck around with the basic principles a little more. This is the equivalent not of practising scales, but sitting at the piano hitting keys different ways just to see what different sounds you can produce.

So here’s a test of an arm flapping a la the Swan Queen. It’s breathtakingly bad, and I have yet to get the hang of keeping drawings consistent, but it’s a start.

first cut at a pendulum test, just to work out how to put it together in PAP.

dialled back the squash & stretch, held the ’squash’ for 2 frames, deleted the ‘contact’ frame on the upwards bounce

Not so much a bouncing ball as a bouncing water balloon about 3/4 full; I’m not sure what sort of ball does this much squash & stretch in real life

No I haven’t just been goofing off

Triptych of bouncing balls; purely a weight/spacing/timing exercise. Next up will probably be the ol’ bouncing ball with squash & stretch (slightly deflated rubber ball?)

Crits more than welcome, and very much appreciated, even if I don’t get around to actually doing revisions.

Trying out bouncing ball exercise again, but just on the spot instead of in an arc. It’s not quite there yet, the second bounce feels a little weird - doesn’t quite go high enough, and comes down too quickly?