Bouncing Ball

Our first exercise was to create an animation of a ball bouncing along the ground. We had a booklet of 32 blank pages, we were also given a booklet containing templates to help us draw the animation in the correct positions. Before we could start drawing the bouncing ball, we had to number the pages 1 to 32, after the numbering we drew the action line on page 32 we would then trace the action line onto each page, the action line is there as a guideline. As you can see my action line slants down a tiny bit each frame. After drawing the action line on to each page we had to draw the key frames, there was five key frames, this made it easier when drawing in the in between frames. I also chose to colour my ball in, i made the mistake of choosing two colours, it was a mistake as I then had to spend more time making sure the colours on the ball look like the turning around.

After drawing the ball on to each page it was time to film the animation. to do this we had a tripod set up on a table and a camera pointing down at the table, we then stuck some blue tac onto the back of our booklets to secure them too the table so the didn't move when we turned the page. The program we used to create the animation was iStopMotion, we would be using 12 frames per second, which would allow us to make the video play smooth. I took a picture of each frame carefully making sure nothing else was in the frame like my hand for example. After taking a picture of each frame we imported the clips to final cut and edited the animation so it looped 5 times. I am pleased with the outcome of my animation, I could improve on the drawing of the animation as the action line wasn't straight and it made the animation look tilted.