animating a bouncy ball

Through this exercise I quick discovered that I am terrible at drawing circles.

After having a quick induction to TVPaint I was able to get the grips of it pretty well and my first ball attempt was a football.

I tried to use the timing charts we’d been shown but numbers don’t do so well in my brain and it ended up confusing me more than helping me. I will keep trying to get my head around the idea though as I think it could be really helpful to get to grips with!

Next I tried animating a bowling ball.

Finally I worked on animating the water balloon which was by far my favourite, with trying to work out how it would move and animating its little wobbles. I also worked out where the pen stabilisation was on TVPaint so the line is a little cleaner too.

short story with objects

Today we looked at 3 part story structure, following a brief and using objects to create a short story.

Our brief was “a waiter is training some incompetent new employees”

The video is viewable here.

Unfortunately it is tricky to hear the spoken lines because of background noise, but it was a fun project and it helped me get to grips with the short story format.