Traditional Animation Practice
Traditional Animation is the oldest technique of motion. It consists of Hand-drawn frames aligned and played at 24 frames/second. In this project, I have used the Dragonframe software. These are some of the rough practice animations I did to learn the physics of motion in an animated object.
(P.S.~ These are my 1st attempts.)
1) Ball Dropping: In this one, the shape of the ball changes in every single frame as it flattens and inflates every time it touches the ground. Similarly, the speed of the ball decreses.
No. of Frames: 24
Frame Rate: 12 fp/s
2) Pendulum: The motion of a pendulum is a very basic but very important exercise when it comes to the physics behind the animation. The speed of the bob decreases every time the pendulum travels against the gravitation force and increases as it comes down to the middle. This speed provides the force for the pendulum bob to travel upwards.
No. of Frames: 21
Frame Rate: 12 fp/s
3) Double Pendulum: The Double Pendulum is the more trickier type of motion. In this, for every one frame of the single pendulum, there are 3 more frames of the second pendulum. The smaller one is a bit more jerky and sudden than the 1st one.
4) Man Walking (Profile): This is one of the most important motions one needs to understand. In this, there is no displacement of the subject but the movement itself takes a lot of different legs, waist and hand co-ordination. There is a certain twist in the waist area every time the legs and hands move, i.e. every time one leg moves in a direction, the opposite hand moves in the same direction.
No. of Frames: 40
Frame Rate: 12 fp/s
5) Man Walking (3/4th): This one is much harder is than the profile walk as in this, a larger portion of the human body is visible.
6) Boat (+flag): This was the first time I had to consider the motion of more than one objects and how they worked along one another. This was a difficult one, specially because of the flag. (Rough Attempt)
No. of Frames: 78
Frame Rate: 12 fp/s
