Lesson 02 - Animation and character - Timing in spaces

In this session we focused on creating 5 different ways in which a coin could be in motion.

1.)

One way was by ensuring that the pictures of the coin were placed on each frame evenly spaced apart. This gave a smooth effect as if the coin was in continuous motion going back and fourth.


2.)

Another way was by causing the coin to ease in and out of motion. I was able to do this by ensuring that more images of the coin were placed at the beginning and end of the sequence while only a small number of copies were placed in between. This gives the sense that the coin was slowing down and speeding up.


3.)

I then looked at how attaching a string to a coin that's moving in a straight line would look incorrect. This is as realistically the coin would not move in the way that it does while being attached to a string.


4.)

For the fourth exercise I then created a pendulum using an arc, coin and string. For this, I 

ensured that the pendulum used an ease in and ease out motion by placing more images of the coin at the beginning and end of the sequence and less in the centre, as I did for the coin's ease in and ease out motion.

5.)

For the final exercise I used an arc and coin to create a continuous motion of the coin going back and forth on the arc. I did this by evenly spacing all of the images of the coin. 

This is an image of the 'Onion skins' of all of the animations that I have produced.