Sage Boutelle's Animation Hut

     Howdy,                    This was a gesture sheet creating a flour sack character for the next assignment. I tried to create a chubby little guy and I think I succeeded well enough. Although shifting into proper character animation, I can tell this is going to get much harder. Particularly trying to imagine how the character acts and squishes as a '3D' object was difficult. I am more than willing to try my best moving forward, though. That is all, Sage Boutelle

      Howdy,                  This was the first assignment I felt the need to redo because I was not happy with my initial attempt. This extra practice allowed me to have a consistent size of both the ball and the rope length. Trying to create a natural looking pendulum on a moving block was interesting as it incorporates both overlapping action and an understanding of momentum. That is all, Sage Boutelle 9/28/21

     Howdy,          This was the first properly difficult assignment of the course. It did not help that I decided to put in a pendulum to make my life harder unnecessarily. What was interesting was that my baseline understanding of physics was extremely useful in conceptualizing how a ball bounces in an arc. I still have to work on my volume control and in places I could slow down the motion more (especially toward the tops of arcs) to make the motion feel more natural. That is all, Sage Boutelle 9/17/21  

      Howdy,           This provided an interesting insight into the basic principles of animation. I was pleasantly surprised to find that a lot of the concepts and language is akin to that of Adobe After Effects (as well as Premiere Pro). Although it is a far more manual process than those software. Going forward I will try harder to maintain volume control on objects I am animating as you can see size consistency was a problem with this first assignment. That is all, Sage Boutelle 9/9/21