Animation - Back to Basics (Spring 2010)

After so many years of button pushing, I finally get to do real animation - based on the principles of timing, spacing, illusion of weight, etc.

Waving flag exercise - Working with follow-through and overlapping action is fun. It was challenging create the illusion of gravity pulling the fabric down while in motion.

A realistic walk cycle. Not the cartoonish-type like Richard Williams' or Preston Blair's. The Preston Blair walk cycle formula has great appeal because of its strong silhouettes in each extreme position. But in this exercise, I'm studying how a real person walks, observing subtleties such as the arcs of the elbows and knees, the slight overlapping action of the forearm, etc. This was my favourite assignment because it was only 12 drawings (though I used much more than that while doing redos.)