Monday, February 28, 2011

Week 2: Walking

Here we go! The second week of this blog. Im still working on setting up Co-Authors so people interested just send me your emails.

The Exercise:

Walk cycle (show different attitudes)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Hiatus!

Hey everyone sorry for the late post. I've been busy with my midpoint this week so wish me luck tomorrow!

Come next week we will be starting on Walk Cycles and showing different attitudes!

Monday, February 14, 2011

First Week, First Project. Ball Bouncing/Rolling

As far as I understand it many people for homework have been working on making a ball bounce and subsequently roll afterwards. That's great since this first weeks exercise is just that.

So feel free to post what you have in the comments and we can all look at each others work, make comments, and show some support for one another.

So lets get bouncing!

Friday, February 11, 2011

First Post!

Hello Academy of Art Students or just Weirdos! Welcome to Animation Flex, here we will try and do various exercises to get our animation muscles as figuratively large as Arnold Schwarzenegger's were in Conan. Those exercises are actually a list created by some tallented people over at the 11 second club message boards. (http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7243677046033970587)

The plan is to work our way down the list, doing one of these each week to try and improve both speed and skill. A week isnt enough you say? I've got classes you say? Well thats just fine, post it anyway! We're all students here so just keep the commitment to posting what ever you've got so we can see and make suggestions. Just as a note, this is meant for any animation medium. 2D, Flash, 3D, ect. As far as 3D you can use any rig you want, when it comes to animals I'll see what kind of rigs I can rustle up for everyone.

So those interested in joining just give me a message!


-Ball bouncing/Rolling
-Walk cycle (show different attitudes)
-Run Cycle (same as walk)
-Character lifting/pushing weight
-Flour Sack
-Lip Sync tests
-Jumping and landing
-Coming to a stop from a walk/run
-Sword Lunge
-Overlap/Follow through (hair, tails, etc)
-Character jumping with bouncing ball/over an obstacle/a gap/from a height
-Character on a pogo stick
-Character using weighted objects (hammer, axe, etc)
-Baseball Throw
-Baseball Hit
-Discus/Javeline/Shotput Throw
-Fight between two characters
-Sports (basketball, skateboarding, boxing etc)
-Character showing off on a diving board
-Dancing
- A tree falling.
- A car speeding off.
- A bird landing.
- A plane crashing.
- A character getting angry, for that matter any and all emotional changes.
- A character being hit by a ball.
- A character throwing a ball.
- A character throwing a heavy rock.
- A character slumping into a chair.
- A character standing up.
- A character getting a fright.
- A character seeing a spider.
- A bag of microwave popcorn (being heated)
- A fish out of water.
- A frog in a sock.
- A ginade landing and exploding.
- A character diving for cover.
- A phone ringing.
- A character answering the phone.
- A character agreeing with what they are hearing, or disagreeing.
- A giant stomping on a house.
- A giant falling over.
- A character bursting out through a door.
- A character clutching its head in dispair.
- A character slapping it head as if it just said something stupid.
- A character threatening to poke someone in the eye.
- A character who has just taisted something disgusting or delicious.
- A character who thinks it is smarter than who it is listening to.
- A character swelling up with pride as it recieves some praise.
- A character watching a scary movie.
- A character trying to take operate a complicated DVD player.
- A character doing or failing to do a rubics cube.
- A character trying to catch a fly with chopsticks.
- A character falling out of its chair.
- A character leaning on something only to find that it gives way and falls over.
- A character who is a burgler trying to carefully remove a painting from the wall.
- A casual glance.
- Noticing something amazing.
- Noticing something disgusting.
- Indigestion
- A burp
- Remembering something amusing.
- Remembering a past love.
- Starting to say something but then forgetting what you were going to say.
- Observing something cute.
- Trying to remember where you put something.
-a dog farting
-a girl farting
-a man farting
- a boy farting
-any particular animal reacting to that fart.
-And of course, always good practice to enter the 11 Second Club competition
-Trying to move against wind, such as from a giant fan, trying to reach a goal.
-Dropping onto a soft surface, such as a giant pillow
-Catching a heavy object, such as a boulder.
-Climbing a wall
-Back/front flip
-Wall run/flip
-Running from something dangerous or scary
-A tightrope walker
-Trapeze artist
-Gymnasts in general doing flips and such
-Weightlessness/underwater
-Running through/avoiding obstacles such as an obstacle course.
-Parkour
-Having fun on a trampoline
-Two or more characters working together to reach a goal (i.e. a high place where character a gives character b a boost with his hands, then character b pulls character a up)
-A character climbing a pipe such as on the side of a building
-A character climbing a ladder, but has to jump and pull himself up to reach the first few rungs.