Post #2: In honour of '50 Shades of Grey'...

Enjoyed today's class - we had an overview on the twelve principles of animation:

1. Squash and stretch

2. Anticipation

3. Staging

4. Straight ahead and pose to pose

5. Follow through and overlapping action

6. Ease in and ease out

7. Arcs

8. Secondary actions

9. Timing

10. Exaggeration

11. Solid drawing

12. Appeal.

I'm sure we will be going over these in more detail in the coming weeks.

In some ways I'm slightly daunted by the skill of good animators as I'm not a very good drawer. I'm not too bad if I can see what it is I'm meant to be drawing, but I find it difficult to draw things from my mind.

However, the principles helped to put things in perspective - it's all pretty logical when you think about it.

We got a chance to practice our drawing skills, adding light and shade to various shapes.

Quite happy with these. Not too bad for a rookie. (Some of the detail has been lost in the photocopier unfortunately). 

We also touched on a few styles of shading and I had a go at crosshatching.