Month: October 2025

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Final result of the ball with tail

Weight Shift Animation

Below is the first draft of the weight shift animation I made. The whole animation is smooth. The major problem is with the spacing, especially with the landing part, which needs some exaggration. Also an anticipation is also needed in this animation.

Pose to Pose Animation

Using the poses i made last week, i plan this pose to pose animation. In this animation, Frankie is shocked by something and the jumping backwards. I am trying to make the whole process smooth and moving from slow to fast. Below is the first draft. A reference is needed.

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Squirrel Animation

This week I make a improvment on the squirrel animation i made last week, I change some of the key poses, and adjust the curve to make the animation look smooth, below is the final outcome.

Juice Box Acting

On the basis of last week’s blocking, I complete the juice box acting animation, and use some lighting to make it more dramatic.

Golden Poses with Frankie

Below are the three poses i made using the Frankie model.

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In order to get a better understanding of follow through action on a living thing, this week we were told to animate a ball with tail. Below is my plan and my animation. The problem is that the tail doesn’t seem to be soft enough, I need to increase the range of motion, and give it a better shape. It’s also important to pay more attention to the joint at the base of the tail, and make sure every joints moves in each frame.

I also improved the pendulum animation.

Acting is a crucial part of animation production. Below is an animation I created featuring a juice box, which requires conveying its personality through its poses. This has been somewhat challenging for me, and I believe I need to further exaggerate the juice box’s movements to make its character more distinct.

This is the bloking of the juice box animation.

I also did more practise on golden poses

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In order to understand follow through action, we animate a pendulum this week. The problem of my animation is that I didn’t realize that the pendulum would never be on a straight line while it flew through the air.

In order to learn how an object’s weight affect its movement, this week we were supposed to animate two juice boxes falling from a table, and give them different weights, below is the reference I film. It shows that the light box seems to bounce a lot more than the heavy box.

Below is the animation and the reference I made.

The golden pose I made this week is a hero pose, a angry pose, and a sitting pose.

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Bouncing ball

While doing the bouncing ball assignment, it is important to feel how the ball squash and stretch, how it loses energy while bouncing, how the ball speed up while it moves down and slows down while it moves up.

What I need to improve is to mind the rotation of the ball, and how it slows down after losing all the speed. Also the ball should be at its top speed when it hits the ground, it may seem fine in a 2d animation, but it is still not reasonable that the ball slows down when it hits the ground. So I need to pay more attention to the physical laws while making animation in the future.

Below is the plan and the final 3d animation I made.

Golden poses

Golden poses is the key of making a vivid character animation.

Below are the three golden poses I made.

The hero poses

I mostly refer to a sketch and the spiderman landing poses. The pose has many problems. The biggest problem is the hip, and the balance also needs some improvements.

The standing pose and the happy pose

These two poses have less problems, but there are still a few details i need to pay attention to, like the arc of the body can be more fluent, and some movement maybe a little too exaggerated.