CG Artist's Toolkit: Animation and Character - Showreel + Links + Reflective Statement

Links:

Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 15&16
Lesson 17

12 Principles
Don Hertzfeldt
Lotte Reiniger
Bill Plympton
Richard Williams

Reflective Statement:
I enjoy animating very much, it still amazes me when I've been drawing frames for a bit and I hit play and the thing I have drawn is moving. Getting character into the animations is deceptively tricky and I can see that learning the skills to do this successfully is going to take a lot of time and effort. I hope to see myself improving in this when I put more work in.

I found myself underestimating the tasks, more work could always be done and I found the quality of my work slipping as I rushed to get things done on time. I intend to practice in Animate over the summer and complete the tasks that I have not done, so that I am more used to using the software and planning and drawing frames for animation.

Animation and Character: Lesson 15 & 16 - X-Sheet

X-Sheet

11SecClub_September_Competition from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

11SecClub_September_Competition_1 from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 11 - Weight and Pulling

Rope Pulling Animation from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 12 - Flour Sack

Flour Sack Animation from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 10 - Christmas

Xmas Cat Animation from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 9 - Throw and Jump

20161202_141448 from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Throw 3 from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

20161202_141650 from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Jump from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 17 - Abstract Shapes to Music

Animation and Character: Lesson 7 - Run Cycle

Run Cycle from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Run Cycle 2 from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Run Cycle 3 from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 6 - Walk Cycle

Walk Cycle from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Animation and Character: Lesson 5 - Halloween

Exported as a GIF

Halloween Animation from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.

Photoshop image

Animation and Character: Lesson 4 - Bouncing Characters

Animation and Character: Lesson 3 - Bouncing Ball Animation

A bouncing ball

Bowling ball, ping pong ball and tennis ball

I really enjoyed this exercise, I made some errors that I had to fix but it was a good learning experience and I'm pleased with the result.

Animation and Character: Lesson 2 - Ball and Pendulum Animations

A ball moving at constant speed (red) and a ball with slow in and slow out (blue).

A Pendulum moving.

A pendulum swinging incorrectly.

A pendulum moving incorrectly.

All three pendulum animations together.

Animation and Character: Lesson 1 - Morph Exercise

Morph Exercise from Eleanor Row on Vimeo.