Monthly Archives: November 2020
Week3: Constrain & walk with prop animation
Introduction When I arrived in London, I just brought a Microsoft Surface, which apparently could only do simple animation in Maya. Though I didn’t have IT problems in the previous assignments. I didn’t expect that I would be in great … Continue reading
Week2: Film language & The history of film, animation and VFX
How to speak a movie The camera Shot length镜头长度: Extreme wide shot远景：The film screen showing broad scenes, such as natural scenery and grand mass activities. Can’t see the details of the object. Wide shot全景：The whole body or scene of the … Continue reading
Week2: Walker animation
Introduction In my 3D animation in portfolio, the most interesting shot is that the boy chases a ball. So, before I did it, I just took the videos that I ran and then animated according to these. At that time, … Continue reading
Week2: Bouncing ball with tail animation
Introduction Actually, when I watched the process that animated by Luke, it evoked me when I tried to do this kind of animation at the first time. I used pretty of time, unfortunately, almost one year passed by, I still … Continue reading
Week1: Bouncing ball & Bouncing ball maze animation
Introduction Well, that’s not my first time to do bouncing ball, because I used to animate it in both 2D animation and 3d animation. Whatever, I know it is a real basic animated principle, I believe that I should practice … Continue reading
[Important]12 basic principles of animation
Introduction Disney’s twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. Principles Squash and stretch 挤压和拉伸 This is the principle that animated objects … Continue reading